Mohun Bagan again hogged the limelight for all the wrong reasons, as seven of its middle level officials were arrested after a drunken brawl in a posh Kolkata club.

Police said the officials were arrested after they fought among themselves, smashed bottles and broke furniture during a cocktails-cum-dinner party at the Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (CCFC) on Sunday night.

Things took an ugly turn at the dinner, hosted by one of the sponsors of Bagan, after some officials engaged themselves in heated discussion on charges made against some of them by coach Subrata Bhattacharya.

Soon a brawl ensued causing injury to several club officials. The CCFC authorities called in the police, who made the arrests. Some of the injured were rushed to nearby hospitals for treatment.

After a temporary lull in the long-drawn factional feuds at the 115-year old club that had even reached the legal corridors, fresh trouble brewed after Bhattacharya's allegation that some officials and supporters were "humiliating" him and had hatched a conspiracy against the club.

Bhattacharya, who threatened to stop coming to the club if these officials were not reined in, met two of the court-appointed special officers, former justices G N Roy and Shyamal Sen, on Sunday and vented his grievances.