Actor-turned-Trinamool Congress MLA Soham Chakraborty created a controversy by assaulting a restaurant owner 🀅who allegedly abused party MP Abhishek Banerjee during the shooting of a film there.
Both Chakraborty and restaurant owner Anisul Alಞam lodged complaints with the pol𒐪ice against each other, an officer said on Saturday.
The MLA later said he wanted ꦫto apologise to Alam as he should have controlled his anger.
The problem between the two sides began over parking the cars of Chakrabor🌟ty and h♈is men in front of the eatery in New Town near Kolkata.
According to CCTV footag🌃e of the restaurant🤪, which went viral later on, Chakraborty was seen assaulting Alam.
When contacted, the restaurant owner claimed that he had allowed shooting in♔ a portion of his restaurant "free of cost" on late Sat🍨urday evening.
"The entire parking space was occupied by the cars༺ of Mr Chakraborty and his men. My staff told his men to remove their cars as other cust🌃omers were not able to park their vehicles," Alam said.
The res꧃taurant owner added that the actor's men told him that he's an MLA and a very close friend of TMC's🐈 national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
"I said that I don't care even if he is Narendra Modi's friend or Abhisheไk's. It was then when suddenly Mr Chakraborty came and punched me on my face and kicked me in my abdomen," Alam alleged.
Chakraborty admitted to sla��pping the restaurant ow♛ner.
"The owner was abusing my staff and Abhishek Banerjee. He also abused me. I lost my cool and slapped him... I should have kept my cool and could have controlled my 🍸anger. I would like to apologise to the owner," the actor said.
A senior officer of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate said that the restaurant owner on Saturday lodged a complaint agains🔯t the MLA and his security guards.
"We have received complaints both from the MLA and the restaurant owner against each other. We ha💯ve started cases 🧸and investigations are on," the officer said.
