Pvt security supervisor beaten up over entry restrictions
Bhubaneswar: A private security supervisor of an apartment in the Airfield police area was allegedly abducted, beaten up and thrown out of a moving vehicle after he denied entry to a few acquaintances of a tenant on Sunday.
Kaibalya Pattnaik (45), the security supervisor, alleged that the attackers were acquaintances of a tenant residing in the apartment.
Additional commissioner of police Anup Kumar Sahoo said they were examining the CCTV footage of the apartment. “We are verifying his allegations and investigating if they had previous enmity. The tenant is being questioned,” Sahoo said.
In view of the weekend shutdown, Pattnaik did not let the strangers enter the building before verifying their credentials from the tenant who they had gone to meet with. “Three to four persons came in a car and asked me to open the gate. As they were outsiders, I asked them whether they wanted to meet anyone from the apartment. They named a tenant and said s/he was a friend,” Pattnaik told police.
“I politely asked them to wait till I was done verifying from the tenant as there were restrictions on the entry of visitors in light of the virus outbreak. But they tried to barge in,” the supervisor added.
Pattnaik further said one of the strangers threw chilli power into his eyes. “As it was early in the morning (between 5.30 am and 6 am), nobody was there to help. Though I raised an alarm, the attackers gagged and pushed me inside their car. They beat me up in the moving car. One of them even pointed a revolver and threatened to kill me. They then pushed me out the car in the Khandagiri area and drove away,” he added.