Trinamool Congress leader Sabyasachi Dutta was arrested from West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on charges of extortion and criminal intimidation.
The former Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation mayor was nabbed from his residence at Raigachi based on a businessman's complaint that Dutta had demanded more than ₹1 crore from him in 2018.
People shouted 'thief' at him and threw eggs, tomatoes, and cow dung when he was being taken to court and when he was leaving.
The Bidhannagar subdivisional court remanded Dutta to police custody for eight days.
