“Police arrested Acharjee and presented him before a local court which sent him to police custody till January 12,” a police official mentioned.

Speaker Ramendra Chandra Debnath instructed the meeting on Friday that he had accepted Acharjee’s resignation.

The 54-year-old Acharjee was elected to the meeting in 2008 and once more in 2013 from Birganj constituency.

“I was let down by a section of party men who do not tolerate me,” Acharjee earlier instructed IANS. “I did not indulge in any misconduct on any minor girl.”

Following the hue and cry, police had suo motu registered an FIR towards him.

Opposition Congress legislators raised questions within the meeting on Friday and demanded an announcement by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on the difficulty.

Sarkar, who additionally holds the house portfolio, later instructed the home that police would act on the earliest.

Sources within the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) mentioned the motion adopted a criticism by the mom of a minor woman in Amarpur in southern Tripura.

“The party carried out an internal inquiry into the molestation of a minor girl by Acharjee,” a supply mentioned. The legislator was then served present trigger discover.

CPI-M state secretary and get together’s central committee member Bijan Dhar mentioned: “Acharjee’s reply was not passable. He was then to resign from the get together and requested from the membership of the meeting.”

The girl additionally to Chief Minister Manik Sarkar.