The Izzatnagar police had launched an operation on Monday (July 1) to catch the smuggler. The police succeeded in nabbing the culprit but a mob assembled at the spot soon and launched an assault on the police team.
Locals allege that TMC leaders, at the grassroots, have been taking 'cut money', or 'illegal commissions' to facilitate the grant of Central and State government schemes.
During 2017 Rajya Sabha elections in Gujarat, the Congress MLAs were taken to a resort in Bengaluru owned by Karnataka Congress MLA DK Shivakumar to stop them from defecting