West Bengal police have arrested a shooter who allegedly shot and killed a Trinamool Congress councilor in Panihati on Sunday.

Based on the CCTV camera footage, the police arrested the killer of Anupam Dutta, a TMC councilor. Dutta was a member of ward number 8 of Panihati Municipality in the North 24 Parganas district. He was shot dead by the miscreant at point-blank range. Manoj Kumar Verma, Police Commissioner of Barrackpore Police Commissionerate, said.

The accused has been identified as Shambhunath Pandit. Police said he was a contract killer. The police are interrogating him, and more arrests are likely to be made in connection with the case.

The footage, which was captured by a camera located at the shooting incident, shows that Dutta was getting shot by the accused from a point-blank range. The police said the incident happened when Anupam Dutta was on North Station Road in Agarpara in the evening.

The councillor, who sustained head injuries, was rushed to a nearby hospital, where the doctors announced him dead on arrival. In another incident, a four-time Congress councillor, Tapan Kandu, was shot dead in Jhalda, Purulia. 

The TMC alleged that local BJP MP Arjun Singh was behind the killing of their councilor. The BJP denied the charges, saying that an internal feud in the TMC was responsible for the killing of the councillor.

The Congress has claimed that the TMC was behind his local councillor, Tapan Kandu's, murder. Kandu was shot dead by unknown miscreants. He was taken to a hospital in Ranchi but succumbed to his injuries. Congress has called for a 12-hour bandh in the Purulia district. In the recently concluded Jhalda Municipality election, no party gained a clear majority.