The police officials on Friday have arrested a local Trinamool Congress leader Tapas Mallick who is one of the 10 persons named in the lynching of an ITI student in Diamond Harbour of South 24 Parganas district.
A senior police officer has stated that Tapas, the TMC Upa Panchayat Pradhan of the area, was absconding ever since his name was surfaced in the FIR lodged by the family of Kaushik Purkait who was beaten to death on Monday night and he was arrested from near Duttapukur in neighboring North 24 Parganas district late Thursday night.
The officer has also added that four others had earlier been arrested in connection with the murder of the youth, who was mercilessly beaten up on suspicion of being involved in theft of cattle from the area.
The incident triggered a public outrage in the area with a mob vandalizing houses of the accused when the youth's body was taken to the house of his aunt in a procession.The Diamond Harbour on Wednesday, has told that Tapas would be produced in the same court later in the day and nine others were also been named in the FIR by the youth's family.
