Baripada: Baripada Town police today recorded the statement of Aswini Kumar Mallick, In-Charge Deputy Director Planning, Mayurbhanj under section 164 CrPC in connection with the FIR registered against Union Minister for Tribal Affairs and Jal Shakti Biseswar Tudu for assaulting two government officers.
Mallick recorded his statement before the Court of the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Baripada.
“We had applied to the court for recording the statement of the informant in the case registered at the Baripada Town police station against the Union Minister. Today we recorded the statement of informant Aswini Kumar Mallick under section 164 CrPC,” informed Baripada Town Police Station IIC Birendra Senapati.
Senapati said that investigation in the matter is in progress.
He, however, refrained from disclosing the content of the statement as the matter is under investigation.
Senapati further informed that statements of the victims and witnesses will be recorded in due course of time.
Lok Sabha Speaker has been informed about the case, he added.
Tudu had allegedly beaten up Aswini Kumar Mallick, In-Charge Deputy Director Planning, Mayurbhanj, and his Assistant Director Debasis Mohapatra while they had visited his party office at Takatpur to discuss the MPLAD fund as desired by him.
Mallick has alleged in the FIR lodged by him at Baripada Town Police Station that on January 21 Tudu assaulted them with a plastic chair at his Takatpur office as a result of which Mohapatra sustained fracture injury on his left hand and he sustained an injury on his finger
Based on the complaint, Tudu has been charged under sections 323,325, 341, 294, and 506 of the IPC.
A couple of days back, police as part of its investigation had gathered evidence such as fingerprints and CCTV footage of the two officials’ entry and exit from Tudu’s office at Takatpur.
Tudu today moved the High Court seeking anticipatory bail to stall arrest in the matter.
