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An Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS officer, Vikas Marmat, has been booked for allegedly assaulting and abusing police personnel at a pub in Bengaluru, and obstructing them from discharging their duty.
An FIR has been registered in Bengaluru against an IAS officer and three other individuals for allegedly abusing and assaulting police personnel inside a pub.
The incident happened at the Cavore pub on Residency Road in the early hours of October 10, around 1.30 am. Vikas Marmat is currently serving as Project Director of the Kuppam Area Development Authority (KADA), in the constituency of Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.
An FIR was registered at the Cubbon Park police station, based on a complaint from Police Inspector Arun Salunke of the Special Enquiry Wing of the Bengaluru Police’s Central Crime Branch.
The complaint said that the Inspector was inspecting bars and restaurants in the area along with his team when they visited Cavore around 1.30 am on October 11. When the police asked customers for identification, four men including Vikas allegedly entered an argument with them.
When Vikas told the police he was an IAS officer, they asked him to show an ID, which reportedly led to a quarrel, The Times of India reported.
When the uniform-clad police personnel requested Marmat to show his identification, he and his companions reportedly became enraged. The IAS officer allegedly claimed his rank, stated that the police could not act against him, hurled abuses, and slapped the police inspector.
Video of the altercation has gone viral on social media.
Police have booked Vikas and his friends, Nitesh, Abhay and Roshan. The FIR has been registered against Vikas and the others, charging them with voluntarily causing hurt, criminal intimidation, intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace, and assault or criminal force used to deter a public servant from discharging their duty, under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
