Nurpur: 10 booked for manhandling Jal Shakti Department Junior Engineer
NURPUR, JUNE 28
The local police today registered an FIR against 10 residents, including five women of Mankot village in Pundar panchayat, for allegedly manhandling Satish Kumar, Junior Engineer (JE), yesterday. They were booked on a complaint lodged by Devinder Singh, Assistant Engineer (AE), Jal Shakti Department, Nurpur subdivision
The police got information yesterday that some villagers had blocked the village road in protest against erratic piped water supply for the past few days. JE Satish Kumar and AE Devinder Singh reached the village yesterday to examine the water supply problem and to address the complaint. However, on seeing the JE, villagers got infuriated and allegedly manhandled him and misbehaved with him. They also threatened the JE.
Additional SP, Nurpur, Surinder Sharma said an FIR under various sections of the IPC had been registered against 10 villagers for assaulting and deterring a public servant from discharging his duty.
The AE said a technical fault was found in the infiltration water source gallery in the drinking water supply scheme of the village and was rectified.
Meanwhile, a video clip of villagers manhandling and misbehaving with the JE went viral in the area. Some village women were seen chasing and manhandling the JE, who is trying to save himself.
