India, May 19 -- A Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor from Titagarh town municipality in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district was arrested on Monday, hours after a bomb went off in his flat in a multi-storied building, causing substantial damage to the property, police said.

Md Riyazuddin, the councillor from Ward No 4 in Titagarh town was arrested in the afternoon along with two of his associates.

A case was registered after the bomb blew off the outer wall of the fifth floor flat in the morning. The debris landed on a nearby shanty damaging its tin roof. Cracks developed on the walls of the adjacent flats, but the residents did not suffer any injury, police said.

"The explosion was quite powerful according to local people. Exper...