kolkata a day after chief minister mamata banerjee directed senior trinamool leaders to stay away from syndicates a retired calcutta high court judge was allegedly abused and threatened by members of a gang which deals in construction materials supply in new town on sunday morning a syndicate leader was arrested after he abused a constable who has been appointed as the house guard of the former judge around 8am ashim kr roy found the road in front his threestorey house near akansha crossing on rajarhat expressway around 2km from city centre ii clogged with a dozenodd trucks carrying construction materials like bricks sand and stone chips gopal chandra mullick his house guard asked the syndicate operators to move the trucks but they began abusing him seeing this roy intervened but the men started a heated exchange of words and abused him too humiliated roy reportedly called up bidhannagar commissioner gyanwant singh who rushed a team of policemen from new town police station to the spot the cops reached the spot around 830am and arrested ansar ali molla a leader of nabadisha which is a prominent syndicate in new town his motorbike was seized while the rest fled with their vehicles the judge had informed one of our senior officials that some men had illegally parked vehicles outside his house and were also abusing him we sent our team immediately said a senior officer of bidhannagar commissionerate bidhannagars deputy commissioner headquarter nishat parvez confirmed that constable mullick was abused by the syndicate men molla was booked under ipc sections 353 assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty 186 obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions and 341 wrongful restrain if proved guilty he can be imprisoned for a maximum term of two years when toi visited roys house on sunday afternoon he refused to talk about the incident however local residents said the judge and his security guards had asked the truck drivers not to park the vehicles or dump materials on the road on several occasions earlier but they never paid any heed to it toi found plenty of construction materials dumped outside roys house the trucks were not immediately outside his residence but were parked next to a petrol pump barely 100 metres away mamata during a closed door meeting with senior leaders on saturday had asked them to stay away from syndicates also during her first district administrative meeting of the north24 parganas in salt lake on friday she had directed the district police to take strong and prompt action in tackling the two chronic problems cattle smuggling and illegal realestate promoting syndicates in the district syndicates are extortion rackets that force builders to buy inferior materials from them at high prices according to local residents it was pretty usual for trucks to illegally park on stretches in new town and dump materials wherever they wanted the road near roys house is no exception retired calcutta high court judge