Tripura police arrests journalist Saikat Talapatra from West Bengal

Guwahati: Tripura police on Friday arrested Journalist Saikat Talapatra from West Bengal’s Sodepur in North 24 Parganas district.

He was arrested on charges of maligning Chief Minister Manik Saha, his family members and many other politicians through his online channels.

A police official said that a team of Tripura police crime branch arrested Talapatra from a rented house at Muragachha area of Sodepur and brought him to Agartala by flight.


There are several cases filed against Talapatra in many police stations in Tripura.

In his YouTube and Facebook channels during the past few years Talapatra also maligned former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, Tipra Motha Party's (TMP) supremo Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman, Congress leader Sudip Roy Barman and many other politicians.

After getting a bail from a Tripura court in one of the cases, he went to Kolkata and did not cooperate with the investigating officer of the police, forcing the court to issue a non-bailable warrant against Talapatra last year.

Tripura police teams on a number of occasions since 2021 went to Kolkata to arrest him but Talapatra was absconding, and he continued to slander the state politicians on a regular basis.