No relief: Organiser of Messi Kolkata event denied bail; sent to 14-day police custody

KOLKATA: The Bidhannagar tribunal connected Sunday sent the promoter and organiser of shot icon Lionel Messi's G.O.A.T India Tour 2025, Satadru Dutta, to 14 days of constabulary custody.Kolkata constabulary arrested lawsuit organiser Dutta connected Saturday, hours aft a planned quality by footballer Lionel Messi astatine the city’s Salt Lake Stadium descended into chaos.Dutta was arrested astatine Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport arsenic helium prepared to permission Kolkata with Messi and members of Inter Miami, who were travelling onwards arsenic portion of the GOAT India Tour 2025. Police said they had received instructions not to let the organiser to permission the city. According to officials, Dutta reached the airdrome soon aft midday, cleared information checks and boarded the aircraft.

He was aboriginal asked to disembark aft the manager wide of police, Rajeev Kumar, intervened. Witnesses said Dutta was kept wrong a constabulary conveyance connected the airdrome tarmac portion officers decided connected further action. During this time, helium denied work for the disruption astatine the stadium and offered assurances that spectators would beryllium refunded, constabulary said. The craft aboriginal departed for Hyderabad with 7 passengers alternatively of eight, aft the aviator declined to hold the formation further, aerial postulation power officials said.

At a briefing aboriginal successful the day, the further manager wide of constabulary (law and order), Jawed Shamim, said an probe was nether way. The Salt Lake Stadium event, promoted arsenic “A Satadru Dutta Initiative”, was chopped abbreviated soon aft Messi entered the venue. Officials, organisers and spectators gathered astir the footballer connected the ground, obstructing the presumption of those seated successful the stands. Thousands of fans, galore of whom had paid betwixt 5,000 and 16,000 rupees for tickets, were near disappointed aft Messi near the stadium early. Objects were aboriginal thrown wrong the venue arsenic tensions rose. Messi and his teammates aboriginal near Kolkata, portion the lawsuit organiser remained successful constabulary custody arsenic inquiries continued.