Indore MLA and BJP leader Akash Vijayvargiya was caught on camera thrashing a municipal corporation officer with a cricket bat on Wednesday. He is the son of party general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya.
The incident happened when a team of municipal corporation officers were on an anti-encroachment drive in the Ganji Compound area of Indore, according to NDTV.
“You should leave within five minutes or else whatever happens after that will be your responsibility,” Vijayvargiya told the officers, the NDTV report added.
Vijayvargiya told India Today that the officers were “illegally demolishing a building”. “The owner of the building paid the corporation to demolish it and some people were staying in the building.
“I tried to reach out to the corporation, they didn’t take my calls. I have a responsibility towards the people who voted for me,” Vijayvargiya told India Today.
The zonal officer of the Indore Municipal Corporation, Dheeraj Bais, told The Times of India that he tried to make them understand the risk that the building poses.
“The building is in a dilapidated state and poses a high risk to the lives of those living in it. But they did not listen to us and thrashed and beat me up with a cricket bat,” Bais told The Times of India.
A case has been registered against Vijayvargiya and 10 others, reported ANI.