Bhubaneshwar: BJP leader assaults Female Doctor over Parking Dispute, arrested

Bhubaneshwar: A lady doctor has been allegedly assaulted by a local businessman who is also a BJP leader on the street over a parking dispute, police said. 

According to the complaint filed by victim Heena Gupta and her mother, Heena, who works in a private hospital, was allegedly thrashed by Biswajit Swain over a parking issue near the Laxmisagar area on Sunday night. 

"When I and my mother were returning home in a car, I found that a car was blocking the road. When I blew the horn of my car for two to three minutes to get a passage, Swain started abusing me and my mother. When I protested, he started beating me in black and blue. He also shoved my mother when she tried to protect me," she alleged while speaking to media persons on Monday.  

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When the police reached the spot, they asked the victim to file a complaint, and they did so at the Laxmisagar police station.

A case has been registered in Laxmisagar police station under sections 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint), 294 (obscene act), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), 354 (assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 34 (act done by several persons with common intention) of the IPC, said DCP, Bhubaneswar, Prateek Singh. Police officials said that Swain was arrested, reports TOI.

The accused is also a BJP leader who was presented to Special Jail here at Jharpara yesterday and the court has rejected his bail. Following the incident, the accused has also suspended from the BJP party. 

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