In a shocking video, the men were seen dragging the Additional Commissioner of the BMC, Ratnakar Sahoo, out of his office, repeatedly hitting him and kicking him in his face.
Bhubaneswar:High drama unfolded in the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) office today after a senior official was assaulted by a group of men. In a shocking video, the men were seen dragging the additional commissioner of the BMC, Ratnakar Sahoo, out of his office, repeatedly hitting him and kicking him in the face.
Mr Sahoo was allegedly attacked during a grievance hearing. He has alleged that while the public hearing was going on, some people barged into his chamber and grabbed him by his collar and assaulted him over claims that he allegedly misbehaved with "Jag bhai" (an alleged reference to BJP leader Jagannath Pradhan). He also claimed that the men tried to forcibly take him to their vehicle.
"While I was conducting a grievance hearing around 11.30 am, five to six people, including BMC corporator Jeevan Raut, barged into my chamber. As soon as he entered the chamber, the corporator asked me if I had misbehaved with Jag bhai. But when I refused, the people accompanying him misbehaved and manhandled me. They dragged me out of my office, thrashed me and were trying to forcibly take me to their vehicle," Mr Sahoo said.
Visuals showed the men pushing him to the ground, kicking him and dragging him down a set of stairs to a vehicle
A First Information Report (FIR) has been filed in the case, and three people - Jeevan Raut, Rashmi Mahapatra and Debashish Pradhan - have been arrested.
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