AGARTALA: A day after senior Congress leader Gopal Chandra Roy filed a police complaint accusing Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb of spreading fake information about COVID-19 situation, he was booked on Sunday for allegedly using a forged letterhead.
However, the complaint against the chief minister was yet to be registered, police said.
Roy, who was a former leader of the opposition in the state assembly, alleged that policemen vandalised his house and attempted to ‘murder him’ on Sunday.
He had lodged the complaint against Deb, who also holds the Home portfolio, at the New Capital Complex (NCC) police station here on Saturday.
Roy claimed that the chief minister told a press conference that 19 coronavirus cases were detected in Manipur and 16 in Karimganj district of Assam.
In reality, the Congress leader asserted, Manipur had only two cases and Karimganj one on Tuesday.
Roy sought appropriate action against the chief minister for allegedly spreading ‘fake information’.
On Roy’s complaint, Officer-in-charge of NCC Police Station Subimal Barman said, “It requires permission from the magistrate. As today is Sunday, we shall seek permission tomorrow.”
An advocate, Arabinda Deb, on Sunday filed a complaint with the same police station charging Roy with forgery and criminal conspiracy to malign the image of the chief minister.
“I have noticed that the complaint was made by Gopal Ch. Roy on a forged letterhead in which he has used the State Emblem of India illegally with an intention to harm the reputation of our honourable Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb,” the advocate said in his complaint.
Barman said the complaint against Roy was registered. (PTI)
