Kolkata:
Gaffar Mollah, the main suspect in the firing at a football match near Vedic Village on August 23, has been arrested.
Gaffar was arrested in Bankura and is currently being questioned at the Naihati police station.
Gaffar Mollah is a land shark who allegedly also forcibly and illegally acquired land for Vedic Village owners.
Vedic Village is luxury resort in Rajarhat, in West Bengal. Residents had to be evacuated from the village after portions of the resort were set on fire following the football match clash.
The fallout has been bigger than just a local row. It has now cost West Bengal investments by Infosys and Wipro. The state told the IT firms on Monday said it could not give land it had promised to the two companies because the land acquired for them may have been gotten forcibly and illegally.
The Vedic Village resorts owner Raj Modi is also director in Webel Akash Nirman IT Link, the joint venture company that was to build the 1600-acre township where the IT giants were to get land.
Modi is suspected to have acquired land for the project illegally. He is now under arrest and the government wants nothing to do with him or land acquired by him.