A court today rejected the bail plea of Trinamool Congress leader Naren Chakraborty, arrested for trying to board a Chennai-bound flight with an unlicensed gun, and remanded him to 14 days' judicial custody.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Barrackpore Mayukh Mukherjee rejected the bail application of Chakraborty and remanded him to judicial custody.
Chakraborty, a top functionary of the Burdwan Zilla Parishad and Pandabeshwar block Trinamool Congress president, was on a day's police custody yesterday.
Central Industrial Security Force personnel, in-charge of the security of the airport here, initially detained Chakraborty on January 31 for trying to board a Chennai-bound flight with an unlicensed gun and cartridges. The police later arrested him.
