Mumbai: In another incident of a lawmaker taking the law into his hands, Congress MLA Nitesh Rane was taken into custody by the Maharashtra police for ‘assaulting’ a deputy engineer Thursday, officials said.
Nitesh, the son of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane, was Thursday morning caught on camera pouring mud on a deputy engineer to protest the poor condition of the Mumbai-Goa highway.
The incident, after which an FIR was filed against Nitesh, took place at Kankavli, his Assembly constituency in the coastal district of Sindhudurg.
“He (Nitish) has been taken into police custody in this case,” said Dikshit Gedam, Superintendent of Police of Sindhudurg, told this agency.
In the video clip that has gone viral on social media, Nitesh and Kankavli Municipal Council president Samir Nalawade are purportedly seen tying deputy engineer Prakash Khedekar of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to the railing of a bridge and pouring buckets of mud on him.
On a complaint filed by the engineer, an offence under IPC section 353 (assault on government servant) was registered against Nitesh and his supporters, police said.
This incident which comes a few days after BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya thrashed a civic official in Indore, once more illustrates how some of the elected representatives take the law into their own hands.
Agencies