Bhubaneswar: The Orissa High Court has granted anticipatory bail to Union Minister for Tribal Affairs and Jal Shakti Biseswar Tudu in connection with an FIR registered against him at Baripada Town Police Station for assaulting two government officers.
The court has ordered Tudu to appear before the Investigating Officer (IO) on March 4, cooperate with the investigation, and not influence the witness. The next hearing of the case will be held on March 8.
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. The Police have also launched an investigation and gathered evidence such as fingerprints and CCTV footage of the two officials’ entry and exit from Tudu’s office at Takatpur.
