TMC MLA Jyotipriyo Mallick attacked by stranger; accused arrested

Trinamool Congress MLA and former West Bengal Minister Jyotipriyo Mallick was assaulted by a youth who intruded into his residence on the Salt Lake space on Sunday (November 2, 2025) evening, a senior police official mentioned.

The youth, recognized as Abhishek Das, was later arrested by police and is being interrogated.

The official mentioned the accused, aged round 30 years, had trailed Mr. Mallick, who entered his residence round 9 pm The youth out of the blue pounced on the previous Minister and punched him in his decrease stomach, leaving Mr. Mallik surprised.

As Mr. Mallick raised a hue and cry, his safety workers and others close by rushed in and overpowered the youth. The accused was later handed over to the Bidhannagar police.

The youth advised interrogators he was a resident of the Habra space within the North 24 Parganas district and wished to speak to Mr. Mallick for a job. Mr. Mallick represents the Habra constituency within the West Bengal Meeting.

It was later identified that the youth had been below psychiatric remedy at a state hospital within the metropolis and had finished a number of recce to Mr. Mallick’s home in Salt Lake earlier within the day, the police official mentioned.

Mr. Mallick advised the reporter he was below the impression that the youth wished to satisfy him like different guests and was astonished when he out of the blue lunged ahead and hit him.

“I’m not certain if he was in an inebriated situation. I had by no means seen him earlier than. It’s unimaginable that somebody from Habra will assault me,” the ruling occasion’s MLA mentioned.

He, nonetheless, termed the assault a one-off case.

Mr. Mallick had been arrested by central companies in reference to a corruption case about two years in the past, when he was the Forest MinisterThe corruption case was associated to his stint as Meals and Civil Provides Minister earlier.

Within the wake of his arrest, Mr. Mallick was faraway from his submit, with Birbaha Hansda taking cost because the Forest Minister.