Hummingbird News Desk
KOLKATA, 25 JUNE: Debanjan Deb, the alleged vaccine fraudster in Kolkata, who posed as a fake IAS officer and conducted at least three dubious vaccination camp in Kolkata, has been found to have links with top leaders of the ruling Trinamul Congress in West Bengal.
Photographs of Debanjan Deb hobnobbing with the top leaders of Trinamul Congress are now doing the rounds on social media, prompting opposition BJP to launch an attack on the party.
Debanjan Deb, who has been arrested by Kolkata Police, had posted various photographs with senior ministers, including Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee and others on his Twitter handle.
The accused posed as a joint commissioner of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and reportedly developed connection with several staff of the corporation.
What is more, his name is engraved on a plaque below a bust of Rabindranath Tagore at a library in central Kolkata inaugurated on 26 February this year.
The plaque also has names of Firhad Hakim, Trinamul Congress MP Sudip Bandopadhyay, the local MP and local TMC MLA Nayana Bandopadhyay.
Locals say since the alleged scam surfaced, someone seems to have tried to paint over his name with some black substance.
More recently, he even shared a stage with newly elected Trinamul MLA from Sonarpur Lovely Moitra. She has claimed ignorance about Deb.
The Kolkata Police has confirmed that several vials of an anti-biotic injection had been seized from Debanjan Deb’s office as well as fake labels of Covishield.
Debanjan did his schooling from Taki House in Sealdah and Charu Chandra College. He started a course on Genetics from Calcutta University, but dropped out.
He later joined a distant education programme at Vidyasagar University, but left that midway. As per police sources, Deb has claimed that he started making music albums as well.
The police arrested 28-year-old Debanjan Deb on Wednesday for allegedly posing as an IAS officer and organising a Covid-19 vaccination camp in Kasba area, where actor and Trinamul Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty had also got her jab.
