BJP leader Rakesh Singh after he was arrested last week The Telegraph pictureThe city police on Monday took BJP leader Rakesh Singh in their custody in connection with the vandalism at Vidyasagar College on May 14. Officers of Amherst Street police station submitted a prayer before a city court on Monday and took custody of Singh till June 18 in connection with the Vidyasagar College vandalism case. Soon after the vandalism, a video footage showing a man resembling Singh urging BJP supporters to attend Shah’s rally with sticks went viral. The BJP supporters whom the man resembling Singh was addressing were apparently members of a WhatsApp group called Fatafati. The city police took custody of Singh a day before chief minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to visit Vidyasagar College to unveil a bust and a statue of the Bengal Renaissance icon.

Source: The Telegraph June 11, 2019 01:07 UTC