India, June 26 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested Arun Dey, 50, in connection with the murder of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker Abhijit Sarkar in the May 2 2021, violence after the West Bengal assembly elections were announced.

Dey was arrested at Teghoria near Kolkata on Thursday morning. He was produced before a local judge and remanded in judicial custody till July 4.

"A mob tied a television wire around my brother's neck and dragged him along the road. They smashed his head with a stone. Dey alias Bhai (brother) was the one who tied the wire and dragged him," said Biswasjit Sarkar, brother of the deceased.

The first information report (FIR) lodged by Abhijit's brother Biswasjit, had named 20 peop...