Odisha BJD MLA arrested for making engineer do sit-ups

The ruling Biju Janata Dal’s legislator Saroj Meher was arrested on Monday for allegedly making a tribal engineer of the Odisha government do sit-ups over public complaints of poor roads earlier this month, police said.
Patnagarh MLA Saroj Meher was detained earlier in the day about three weeks after he allegedly forced public works department engineer Jaykant Sabar to do sit-ups.
“He was arrested after sustained interrogation,” Bolangir’s superintendent of police K Siva Subramani said adding he was taken for a mandatory medical check-up.
The MLA was then brought to the court of additional district judge where the police will seek his remand for further interrogation. Meher is likely to move bail petition there.

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