BJP workers staged a protest blocking National Highway-16 at Satsang Vihar in Bhubaneswar against the arrest of BJP Corporator Jeevan Rout.
The movement of vehicular traffic was severely hit from both sides of the NH causing inconveniences to commuters. Thousands of vehicles including ambulances, trucks, buses and cars coming from and to Khordha and Cuttack were stranded on the road for more than an hour.
The commuters expressed resentment over the protest blocking the NH.
Jeevan Rout, the Corporator of Ward No.29, was arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman ASI in Bhubaneswar. A case in this regard has been registered at the Mancheswar police station. Following his arrest, he was produced before a local court on Friday. The court sent him to the Jharpada jail rejecting his bail application.
“The police arrested the Corporator without any reason,” a protestor alleged.
Reports said Aparup Narayan Rout alias Jeevan had created a ruckus hindering construction work carried out by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) near Hi-Tech Hospital Chhak late on Thursday night.
He allegedly abused the NHAI officials engaged in road construction. When a PCR team led by woman ASI Anjana Baral intervened in the matter to resume the construction work, Rout allegedly misbehaved with her.
The Mancheswar police arrested Rout and registered a case against him under the MV Act.