A CCTV footage has emerged that showed motorcycle-borne men hurling something towards the gate of a highrise building in Bhowanipore early on Thursday.

Many living in the neighbourhood alleged that they suspected it was the handiwork of local Trinamool Congress supporters.

Early on Thursday, glass bottles landed in the compound and got smashed splintering glass pieces over a large area.

The footage shows three men arriving on a bike in front of the main gate of Indraprasth — the highrise on Chakraberia Road.

Two of them had their faces covered while the third jumped off the bike and started taking out something, that resembled bottles, from a white bag.

A fourth man walked to the spot and joined the third person in hurling the bottles.

The third person did not have his face covered but the fourth did.

Police said they did not receive any complaints from the residents of the complex.

The building on 46A Chakraberia Road falls under Ward 70 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation where TMC candidate Mala Roy is said to have got fewer votes than her opponent.

The local TMC councillor, Ashim Kumar Bose, said he was unaware of any such
attack.

“I came to know about it only through a video. This is so surprising. The people in this building have such a good relationship with me. I had a word with them even today but no one told me anything,” Bose told Metro on Friday evening.

“I take it as my responsibility that we could not give a lead to the party from this ward. But that does not mean that our boys will start behaving like this. I suspect some foul play,” he added.

Asked if the police would start a suo motu inquiry, deputy commissioner (south), Priyabrata Roy, said the police would investigate the matter.

People in the Bhowanipore neighbourhood whom this newspaper spoke to refused to be named.

An elderly resident of the area said: “Who will go to file a complaint? Most of us are businessmen here. Who will waste time going to the police?”

An employee of the facility management company at the complex said that at around 1.20am on Friday he heard the sound of bottles crashing near the main gate.

“I went near the gate and saw some men tossing bottles into our complex. I instructed the guards at the gate to get inside the security room and not to open the gate,” he said.