Kolkata mayor’s estranged wife detained following complaint

Kolkata, May 25

The estranged wife of city mayor Sovan Chatterjee was on Friday detained following his complaint that she was trying to barge into the flat where he has been staying for the past six months, police said.

Claiming that the mayor had been delaying signing papers for their daughter’s study abroad, his wife Ratna Chatterjee held a night-long demonstration in front of the flat in south Kolkata’s Golpark area where he was staying, they said.

“We have received a complaint from the mayor on the basis of which we have detained her. We are talking to her,” they said.

The mayor and his wife have been fighting a battle for divorce. PTI