{"id":18377,"date":"2026-06-08T11:23:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/tmc-leader-jahangir-khan-who-contested-from-falta-arrested-near-nepal-border-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:53:54","slug":"tmc-leader-jahangir-khan-who-contested-from-falta-arrested-near-nepal-border-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/tmc-leader-jahangir-khan-who-contested-from-falta-arrested-near-nepal-border-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"TMC leader Jahangir Khan, who contested from Falta, arrested near Nepal border | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-131579342,imgsize-36702.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">NEW DELHI: West Bengal Police Monday arrested former Trinamool Congress MLA Jahangir Khan, who became the centre of controversy during the assembly elections after repolling was ordered in his constituency, Falta, after the reports of irregularities.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>The arrest comes weeks after Calcutta high court&#8217;s vacation bench refused to extend the interim protection in five FIRs granted to the TMC strongman. Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee referred the matter to a regular bench.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>Earlier, Khan was granted interim protection by Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya till May 26, considering the repolls there on May 21. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>State earlier had approached Justice Bhattacharyya&#8217;s bench to vacate the order before the interim protection expired but the judge refused to intervene.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">This is a developing story&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/tmc-leader-jahangir-khan-arrested-near-nepal-border-after-days-on-the-run\/articleshow\/131579233.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: West Bengal Police Monday arrested former Trinamool Congress MLA Jahangir Khan, who became the centre of controversy during the assembly elections after repolling was ordered in his constituency, Falta, after the reports of irregularities.The arrest comes weeks after Calcutta high court&#8217;s vacation bench refused to extend the interim protection in five FIRs granted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}