Bhubaneswar/Baripada: An eight-member team of the police which included forensic experts visited the office of local MP and Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs & Jal Shakti Biseswar Tudu at Takatpur in connection with the latter’s alleged assault on two government officials on January 21 last.
A police official said that the investigation has been expedited and the scientific team is collecting physical evidence including fingerprints etc from the spot.
Earlier, the team led by Mayurbhanj Additional SP Suresh Chandra Patra had also collected CCTV footage of the two officials’ entry and exit from Tudu’s office.
The police have also recorded statements of the government officials under section 164 CrPC.
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
Tudu has been charged under sections 323,325, 341, 294, and 506 of the IPC by the police.
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