Kolkata Police search beauty parlour 'owned' by BJP youth-wing leader after drugs haul

The Kolkata Police on Sundayconducted a search operation at a beauty parlour allegedlyowned by Pamela Goswami, a youth wing leader of the BJParrested for possession of cocaine.

Sleuths of the city police took Goswami to the parlourin the New Town area and conducted the search on the premisesin her presence, sources said.

Very active on social media platforms where she hadtaken on celebrities like singer Rihanna over the farmers'protest, Goswami was arrested with her friend Prabeer KumarDey and personal security guard Somnath Chatterjee on Fridayafter 90 gm of cocaine was allegedly found in her handbag andconcealed in the car she was travelling.

She had created a flutter at a city court where shewas produced on Saturday, trying to wriggle out of the graspof police and screaming that Rakesh Singh, a close aide ofBJP's West Bengal pointsman Kailash Vijayvargiya, ''plotted''her arrest.

Goswami, a former fashion model and small-timeactress, was remanded in police custody till February 25.

Claiming that Goswami had been ''brainwashed'' by theKolkata Police and the ruling TMC, Singh said he was not intouch with her for over a year.

Singh said he was ready to face investigation by anyagency.