Bureaucrat in Patna trashes job aspirant holding tricolour during protest, video goes viral

Hundreds of people staged a demonstration to press several demands in Patna on Monday. A video that has gone viral showed Patna Additional District Magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh thrashing a protester who is on the ground, holding a national flag.

Singh was also seen dragging the protester.

Trouble erupted at the Dak Bungalow crossing where two separate groups, one comprising teachers' eligibility test qualified candidates seeking jobs and the other consisting of workers of the Jan Adhikar Party, gathered and tried to proceed towards the Raj Bhavan, situated a couple of kilometres away.

Police had to resort to lathi-charge to disperse the crowd.

RJD leader and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, in a tweet, said he spoke to the district magistrate. "DM has constituted an inquiry committee under the leadership of Patna Central SP and DDC that why ADM himself lathi-charged the candidates, what was the situation? If found guilty, action will be taken against the concerned officer.

Congress spokesman Asit Nath Tiwar claimed that Singh has a reputation of high-handedness. During the pandemic, he had commanded citizens to produce videos of themselves beating utensils failing which their applications will not be considered, Tiwari alleged.

—With PTI inputs