New Delhi:
Six members of the Left-affiliated Students Federation of India (SFI) have been arrested for the attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Finance Minister Amit Mitra in the national capital. SFI General Secretary Ritabrata Bandopadhyay and two women are among those arrested.
"They were arrested after analysing the video footage related to the protest at Yojna Bhavan housing Planning Commission," a senior police official said.
The arrest follows an inquiry ordered by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde last week into the incident.
Mr Mitra was heckled and manhandled outside the Planning Commission office by SFI activists on April 9. He was accompanying Ms Banerjee for a meeting with Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, when SFI activists surrounded him, shouting angrily and pushing him. Ms Banerjee had alleged that she too was heckled.
After making a hasty return to Kolkata, she had said, "Delhi is not safe".
The SFI was protesting against the death of a student leader in Kolkata earlier this month. It has alleged that Sudipto died because he was beaten repeatedly on the head by the police when it arrested a group of activists protesting against Ms Banerjee's decision to postpone college union elections. Ms Banerjee had backed the police, which said the activist hit his head on a lamp-post when he fell out of a bus that was meant to move the arrested students to prison.