Two guards at the Uniworld City housing complex were arrested on Thursday evening for allegedly kicking open the door of an 18th-floor apartment where a doctor couple stay on rent and pushing the wife to the ground and assaulting the husband.
A senior officer of the Bidhannagar commissionerate said that they picked up the two guards based on a complaint lodged by the couple earlier this month.
The police did not identify the two arrested till late on Thursday evening.
The couple have mentioned in the complaint that the guards assaulted them on October 5 following over a payment of maintenance charges. The couple have said the owner of the apartment had paid all the charges, but they were still being harassed.
According to the officer, they arrested the guards after they were identified from footage of a CCTV camera installed in the ground-floor lobby of the building.
“The two were among the guards who were seen in the CCTV footage escorting the husband and exiting the tower’s gate. We are in the process of identifying the other men who were allegedly involved in the incident,” said the officer.
The husband, a general surgeon, said he and his wife were still living in fear.
“We are living in fear. It is extremely heartening to see how our neighbours have come out in support of us,” said the surgeon, who is still having to take medicines for his injuries.
A senior officer of the Bidhannagar commissionerate said they have questioned the accused.
“We are in the process of identifying the others in the group of the security guards that assaulted the husband and molested his wife,” the officer said.
At Uniworld City, several office-bearers of the residents’ welfare association (RWA) — including the president, secretary and treasurer — have quit their posts.
Earlier this month, the couple had lodged a complaint with the Bidhannagar commissionerate alleging that the guards had on Thursday kicked open the front door of their 18th-floor apartment and pushed the wife to the ground before taking the husband to the basement parking lot, when he was assaulted till he passed out.
The couple also mentioned in the police complaint, lodged last Friday, that they were being harassed and prevented by guards from entering their flat.
This despite them showing the guards proof of the payment of the maintenance charges by the apartment’s owner, the doctors wrote in the complaint.
The couple also wrote that a guard in the ground-floor lobby had on Thursday prevented the wife from entering the lift on the grounds of “non-payment” of maintenance charges.
Murdered woman stabbed twice: Cops
The 55-year-old woman who was killed inside her Burtola home had two stab wounds on the right side of her neck, police said on Thursday.
The attack with a sharp weapon punctured her right artery, the police said.
The motive behind the murder could not be ascertained till Thursday evening.
Meenakshi Bhattacharya, 55, died after being stabbed, while her son Binayak was admitted to the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital with injuries on Wednesday night.
“According to the preliminary post-mortem report, the woman was stabbed twice. The son is still in a state of shock,” said an officer.
Joint commissioner, crime), Kolkata police, Shankha Shubhra Chakrabarty, visited the spot on Thursday morning.