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Puri<\/strong>: An Assistant Section Officer (ASO) has filed a police complaint against Odisha Governor Raghubar Das\u2019 son Lalit Kumar for allegedly assaulting him in Raj Bhawan at Puri on July 7.<\/p>\n The ASO has been identified as Baikunthnath Pradhan.<\/p>\n Pradhan also brought the matter to the notice of Principal Secretary to Governor Saswat Mishra. In his letter, Pradhan stated that he was thrashed by Kumar, his two PSOs and as many friends. Kumar even threatened to kill him when he tried to escape, Pradhan alleged.<\/p>\n \u201cAt around 11.45 pm on July 7, I was sitting in the office room. Aakash Singh (Personal Cook of the Hon\u2019ble Governor) came to the office and told me that Mr. Lalit Kumar (Son of the Hon\u2019ble Governor of Odisha) wants to meet me right now. I came with Aakash to meet Lalit Kumar at Suite No-4. The moment Lalit Kumar saw me, he started scolding me in unparliamentary language and used highly objectionable slang. When I objected to such humiliation, they started slapping me,\u201d Pradhan mentioned in the letter.<\/p>\n He ran out of the room and hid behind the annex building but two PSOs of Kumar dragged him to the suite again and started blowing punches on his face, twisted his left ankle and kicked to different body parts.<\/p>\n The incident irked the BJD and Congress as the Government took no action on the matter.<\/p>\n BJD came down heavily on the Government while Congress gheraoed the Raj Bhavan today demanding strict action against the culprits.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Congress workers today took to the streets and staged protests in front of the Raj Bhawan in Bhubaneswar demanding strict action against the culprits. Senior Congress leader Niranjan Patnaik also expressed concerns over the incident and urged the CM to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Puri: An Assistant Section Officer (ASO) has filed a police complaint against Odisha Governor Raghubar Das\u2019 son Lalit Kumar for allegedly assaulting him in Raj Bhawan at Puri on July 7. The ASO has been identified as Baikunthnath Pradhan. Pradhan also brought the matter to the notice of Principal Secretary to Governor Saswat Mishra. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/8f97cb8e-bb46-485c-9d5b-2d56549d48a8.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34781,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34779\/revisions\/34781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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