An employee of a filling station in Ganjam district was forced to do sit-ups by a senior bureaucrat for not wearing a mask. A video of the incident has gone viral in social media.
When Ganjam Tehsildar Arun Kumar Nayak in his official vehicle reached the filling station near the NH at Huma to refill the vehicle on Wednesday, he found the employee without a mask. He asked the employee to do sit-ups as punishment instead of imposing a fine on him. The filling station employee followed the directive and did sit-ups in public. The CCTV cameras installed at the filling station captured the incident. As the video has gone viral, the whole episode has raised eyebrows among many. Even though the Tehslidar has been delegated power to take action against Covid guideline violators, he cannot force someone to do sit-ups in public, said a local.