A BJP MLA from Baripada in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, Prakash Soren, was arrested by police on Friday for allegedly assaulting a government engineer.
It was alleged that the concerned engineer had refused to award work orders to the supporters of the MLA in various government projects as desired by him.
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Sources said Soren had asked Ganapati Jena, an assistant executive engineer in the ITDA (Integrated Tribal Deve lopment Agency), to meet him at the Baripada circuit house in Mayurbhanj on Thursday morning. But the engineer met him in the evening. An infuriated Soren and his supporters allegedly misbehaved with him and beat him up. Jena, who is undergoing treatment in a local hospital, had lodged an FIR after the assault.
