A drunken youth was arrested on Sunday night when he allegedly abused policemen and created a ruckus when he was intercepted at a police checking point during the weekend shutdown in the city. The accused identified as Jiban Jyoti Mallick allegedly misbehaved with on-duty police officials at Fire Station Square claiming himself as a nephew of Commerce and Transport Minister Padmanabha Behera.
According to reports, the police stopped him for movement on the road on a two-wheeler when the weekend shutdown was in force. When he was asked about the purpose of his movement, he introduced himself as the Minister’s nephew and reportedly shouted at the cops. Source said the accused person is a resident of the Nayapalli area. “He was impersonating himself as a relative of a VIP. He was arrested on charges of violating Covid restrictions and misbehaving with police personnel and was forwarded to a local court,” said DCP Umashankar Das.
The restrictions would be enforced strictly and the Commissionerate police are trying to frisk all the vehicles passing through the checking points in the city, he added.