Morning: That's not my car. I don't know who placed the board there .

Evening: I used the car yesterday (Saturday). It belongs to a relative of mine who lives across the road.

A Trinamul Congress leader who appeared to be among the victims of the vandalism inside Fort Oasis on Panditiya Road first disowned the damaged car, then the board behind the shattered windshield that flaunted his official designation and, finally, the perpetrators.

Between mayoral council member Debasish Kumar's statements in the morning and evening, the sign "mayor in council, KMC" disappeared from the black Ford Endeavour with an Odisha registration plate.

By then, of course, there was little doubt about which mayoral council member the Rs 26 lakh-plus SUV had been standing there for. In the evening, the Trinamul leader remembered he had used the Ford Endeavour with a fancy number - 001 - just the day before. But he insisted that the car didn't belong to him.

"It belongs to a relative named Raja Roy, who lives across the road. I used his car yesterday since there was a problem with my vehicle."

Known to be close to former mayor Subrata Mukherjee, the mayoral council member also clarified that he was not a resident of Fort Oasis. "My daughter lives here. I come and stay in her flat on Saturdays," he said.

Earlier in the day, the mayoral council member had visited the family of the youth who died after being hit by a Mercedes early on Sunday, triggering the vandalism that left Fort Oasis shell-shocked.

Residents of the complex said most people living in the slum from where the mob came were Trinamul loyalists and had been seen in processions led by Kumar.

When Metro asked him what he felt about people who considered him to be their leader being involved in such a violent attack, Kumar said: "Whoever did this was wrong. They should be punished."

Kumar's brother Sudipto was the secretary of the Deshapriya Park puja that had to be shut down after a near stampede to see "the world's largest Durga idol".