Actor-turned-BJP MP Roopa Ganguly's son was on Friday sent to one-day police custody for allegedly ramming his car into the wall of a south Calcutta club.

The police produced 21-year-old Akash Mukherjee before the Alipore court. They had taken the youth into custody after the incident around 9.15 pm on Thursday and formally arrested him on Friday morning on the charge of rash driving and damaging property, a senior officer said.

No casaulty has been reported, he added.

The police officer said Akash's blood sample has been collected to check if it was a case of drunk driving.

The car will be sent for a forensic test, the officer said.

Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Friday accused Trinamul of trying to politicise the accident. 'There has been an accident. Roopadi herself had called the police. The law will take its own course. We have nothing to say about it. We just want to say that the matter should not be politicised. We have not sought any special privileges,' Ghosh said.

'The Trinamool Congress is unnecessarily trying to politicise the matter. We hope the police would investigate impartially. But if the police administration tries to implicate him in a false case by saying he was drunk, the we (BJP) too would get involved in the matter.'

A Trinamul councillor of the area where the accident happened, Archana Dasgupta, alleged that Akash was drunk and he could have crushed kids playing on the streets under the wheels. 'There are kid who stay here on the streets. They play here. It could have caused a major accident. He was drunk when he was rescued. He has history of reckless driving, ' Dasgupta said.

The car crashed into the boundary wall of Royal Calcutta Golf Club in the city's Golf Green area, breaking a portion of it, with the driver still trapped inside, they said.

Mukherjee, however, came out of the black sedan unscathed with the help of his father, who had rushed out of their apartment nearby on hearing the commotion.

In a tweet, Ganguly said on Thursday that law should take its own course.

'My son has met with an accident near MY RESIDENCE. I called police to tke care of it with all legal implications...

No favours/ politics plz. I love my son & will tk cr of him BUT, LAW SHOULD TAKE ITS OWN COURSE (sic),' she said.

Tagging Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the tweet, the Rajya Sabha member said in Hindi, 'I don't commit any wrong, neither do I tolerate one. I am not up for sale.'