Kolkata, Dec. 14 -- Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday demanded a judicial probe by a sitting Calcutta high court judge and called for arrest and resignation of state sports minister Aroop Biswas and state fire brigade minister Sujit Bose holding them responsible for unprecedented violence during the Lionel Messi show at the Salt Lake Stadium in which scores of football fans were injured in police lathi charge.

Rejecting an inquiry committee set up by chief minister Mamata Banerjee under retired judge Ashim Kumar Roy, Adhikari told a press persons that the alleged police brutality on the new generation of football fans needed to be probed independently by a sitting judge or a court monitored inquiry to unravel the truth about ...