The Siliguri Metropolitan Police continued its crackdown on political leaders involved in grabbing government and private land and arrested a TMC leader and a BJP leader on Friday.

Gautam Goswami, Trinamool’s vice-president in Dabgram-Fulbari, which covers parts of Siliguri civic area and four contiguous panchayats of Jalpaiguri district, was nabbed by police in Delhi that landed at the Bagdogra airport on Friday afternoon. Goswami was named in a police complaint by a woman last month where she claimed that he was forcibly trying to encroach on her land. She had also named Debasish Pramanik, the immediate past president of Trinamool in Dabgram-Fulbari, and some others in her complaint.

Pramanik was arrested on June 26 while Goswami, who is also a former member of the Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority, was at large. Pramanik, who was expelled from the party, is in police custody now.

At a meeting in Nabanna last month, chief minister Mamata Banerjee had expressed anguish over the highhandedness of land mafias in Dabgram-Fulbari.

From the airport, Goswami was taken to Matigara police station. “Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee are my leaders. I have full faith in the police and the administration,” he said.

The police also arrested BJP leader Uttam Roy on a complaint filed by the land and land reforms department at Bhorer Alo police station of Jalpaiguri. Bhorer Alo is a mega tourism hub and Mamata’s dream project in Gajoldoba on the banks of the Teesta.

Roy, police sources said, was accused of encroaching on government land and constructing a resort on the plot.

Mayarani Das, Roy’s wife and BJP Mahila Morcha leader, said they got rights of the land in 1998. “We have taken a bank loan by mortgaging the land. We have a trade licence and pay other taxes and other revenue,” she claimed.

Uttam was produced at a local court in Jalpaiguri that sent him to five-day police custody. “We got patta of the plot in 1988. There is no question of encroachment,” he said.