Pune: Rajgad Taluka Youth Congress workers booked for throwing ink at junior engineer of Public Works Department

Pune: Workers of the Rajgad Taluka Youth Congress were booked for throwing ink at a junior engineer of the Public Works Department (PWD) and expressed their displeasure. They protested the inaction by the department in repairing a road in a remote area in the taluka.

MLA Sangram Thopte had instructed PWD officials to repair Bhatti Kind to Kelad Road in the remote area of Rajgad taluka. However, nothing was done. People living in the area were finding it difficult to commute due to the bad road, alleged the Youth Congress workers.

API Nitin Khamgal, additional charge, Velhe Police Station, said, “The junior engineer alleged that the Congress workers abused him and threatened to kill him. They also obstructed him from conducting government work. He lodged a complaint at the Velhe Police Station.”

The complainant has been identified as Saiprasad Dineshrao Mangilwar (34), junior engineer, PWD, Velhe, a resident of Ambegaon Budruk, Pune, hailing from Deglur, district Nanded. The incident took place at around 1 pm on Monday (August 5) in the PWD office, Velhe.

According to the details, a coordination committee meeting was held under the chairmanship of MLA Sangram Thopte at the Panchayat Samiti Auditorium on July 26. Villagers from 18 remote villages such as Kelad, Pasli, Varoti, etc, raised the issue of bad roads in their area. Thopte immediately issued instructions to repair the road. However, nothing was done even 10 days after the meeting. Therefore, enraged Congress workers threw ink at Saiprasad Mangilwar and condemned the inaction.

Then the junior engineer approached the Velhe Police Station and lodged the complaint. The Velhe Police registered an offence against Mahesh Jadhav, a resident of Kolambi, taluka Velhe, Rajgad, Youth Congress Taluka President Shivraj Shendkar and 10 others, said API Nitin Khamgal.