Kolkata: The Department of Police Detective Kolkata has arrested three people – one of them a doctor, along with the driver and typist – in connection with the threat of death sent to the former Head of Secretary in Handyopadhyay, currently serving as the main advisor to the ministerial police chief.
Police said Mastermind Arindam Sen (41) was the assistant professor of pharmacology in private medical and hospitals in the city, which had sent threats to several other people in the past.
Police source said he might suffer from mental illness.
Toi has reported that Bandyopadhyay’s wife has it, on October 26, accepts a letter reading: “Madam, your husband will be killed.
No one can save your husband’s life.” Following complaints, the police had filed fir.
The probe caused typing Bijoy Kumar Kayal (65), and then to Sen and his driver Ramesh Shaw (43).
Sen, the police claimed, sent the driver with a draft letter to be typed by Kayal.
“He then got a Shaw to post it on October 25,” said CP (crime) Murlidhar Sharma.
Police said Sen had posted similar letters to several others in the past two years.
On October 25, he got seven threats typed by Kayal – each under a different alias – and posted it.
The police have not linked any concrete motif to Sen.
The court has sent cents to police custody until November 12.
Defense lawyers claimed penny and his aides were made a scapegoat.