Former West Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas has been summoned by the police in connection with a case related to chaos at the Lionel Messi event at Salt Lake Stadium last year, after he failed to appear before the investigators by Friday.<\/p>\n
The TMC leader, who had earlier cited health issues and stated that he was not in a position to attend the summons, has been asked to appear before the investigators on June 8.<\/p>\n
“We have asked Aroop Biswas to appear before our officers on June 8. A notice has been served to him today,” an officer of Bidhannagar Dakshin police station said.<\/p>\n
He was asked to appear before investigators by Friday, after an FIR was lodged against him by the event organiser Shatadru Dutta, accusing the former minister of black-marketing tickets, extortion, criminal intimidation and cheating in connection with the high-profile football event in December, 2005.<\/p>\n
The event at the Salt Lake Stadium on December 13, 2025, had descended into chaos after a large number of people entered the venue allegedly without valid access, leading to security breaches and crowd disorder.<\/p>\n
Many spectators who had bought expensive tickets complained that they could neither properly see Messi nor enjoy the programme due to overcrowding and mismanagement.<\/p>\n
Messi left the ground quickly amid the commotion, following which sections of angry spectators vandalised parts of the stadium.<\/p>\n
The controversy had triggered a political storm at the time, with fingers being pointed at the then sports minister Aroop Biswas over alleged lapses in planning and crowd management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former West Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas has been summoned by the police in connection with a case…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[46809,141,5171,102,48068,3611,48069,816,101,75,1080],"class_list":["post-148777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-bahrain-missile-attack","tag-centcom","tag-gulf-tensions","tag-hormuz","tag-iran-war-live-news-updates","tag-iranian-drones","tag-kuwait-missile-strike","tag-middle-east-conflict","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-central-command","tag-us-iran-conflict"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116707354500688179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}