Pamela Goswami’s lawyer has withdrawn himself from the drug possession case involving the youth BJP leader.
Shubhadeep Roy, Pamela Goswami’s lawyer, now claims there was a threat to his family if he had decided against dropping the youth BJP leader’s case.
“I can’t be biased on behalf of anyone. I want to work for the law impartially, so I am under pressure in various ways. So it is better to withdraw from working in this situation,” Roy told India Today. Goswami had earlier claimed that BJP Bengal Chief Kailash Vijayvargiya’s close aide and party leader Rakesh Singh had conspired to trap her.
Roy further alleged that he was threatened by a couple of goons on motorcycles who blocked his way when he was returning home on Thursday and said, “You have a happy family, why are you so interested in this case? Withdraw yourself quickly.”
“For the past few days, I have noticed that wherever I go, there are a number of unfamiliar suspicious faces around me. They keep an eye on where I am going, what I am doing, where I am chatting. Who is behind it, I don’t know,” said Roy adding that he has not filed a police complaint yet. He went on to claim that he was warned by members of a political party as well who said they would harm his family members if he decided not to drop Pamela Goswami’s case.
Ms. Goswami, a former fashion model and actress, was remanded in police custody till February 25.
Very active on social media platforms where she had taken on celebrities like singer Rihanna over the farmers protest, Ms.
Goswami was arrested with Mr. Dey and her personal security guard Somnath Chatterjee on February 19, after 90 gm of cocaine was allegedly found in her handbag and concealed in the car she was travelling.