Patnagarh BJD MLA Saroj Meher, who is accused of forcing a Works Department Junior Engineer to do sit-ups, was granted conditional bail on Saturday 12 days after being sent to the Jharpada jail here.
The Special Additional District Judge (ADJ) Court here, while granting the bail to the first-time MLA, asked him to deposit a surety bond of Rs 25,000 and provide two guarantors for the bail before being released from jail.
Meher had been sent to judicial custody after his earlier bail petition was rejected by the Special ADJ Court.
Notably, Meher was arrested for forcing the Junior Engineer to do sit-ups a hundred times due to the alleged poor-quality road construction work in the Patnagarh constituency. The incident had come to light after a video of it went viral on social media on June 6.