Bhubaneswar: Trouble mounted for Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab as a special court in Cuttack framed charges against him under sections 341, 323,294,353,506 of IPC in connection with slapping a police officer in Cuttack in 2011.
A special court (MP/MLA) in Cuttack has posted the matter to April 5 for the next hearing.
Bhartuhari had allegedly assaulted a police officer Amitabh Mohapatra, then ASI, during a programme inside the Netaji Birthplace Museum in Cuttack on January 23, 2011.
The cop, now an ACP under Commissionerate police, filed a complaint against the MP at Daragha Bazar police station, alleging that Mahtab had assaulted him without any provocation for doing his duty.