 In 1994, his residence was attacked and bombed by the police for standing as witness in a Habeas Corpus case relating to abduction and murder of Bhikari Paswan, a jute mill worker, by the police.In April 2010, Roy was arrested on allegations of "impersonation" related to the same incident - the charges behind his arrest imply that conducting public hearings constitutes "running a parallel court".The arrest was condemned by Amnesty International, the Asian Centre for Human Rights, and International Federation of Human Rights.