Somvarpet, April. 16: Deputy Superintendent Excise Officer of the Somvarpet Subdivision, who went to investigate the location of the illegal liquor sale was attacked in obscene terms by the Range Inspector of the same Excise Department in Alurusiddapura. A case was filed at the Shanivarasante police station in connection with the incident. He had visited the location on the notice of the Excise depatment.
Shivappa, Deputy Superintendent Excise Officer of the Somvarpet Subdivision and Sub-Inspector Apoorva, along with other three officers on Monday visited the Vaibhav Wine Shop in Alurisiddapura on the instructions of the Deputy Commissioner of Excise Department. While inspecting the wine shop, owner Thammaiah was asked to open the lock. The key of the wine shop has been taken by Excise Range Inspector Nataraj said Thammaiah. Get the key from them and open the wineshop's door, Shivappa said the complaints against him were lodged and the stock should be reviewed. An excise inspector, Nataraj, who arrived at the place a few hours later, as soon as he left the jeep assaulted Shivappa's jeep driver Bhuvaneswar. When Shivappa tried to explain the situation, Nataraj attacked Shivappa, who was in uniforms. At the same time, Nataraj's jeep driver, outsourced employee Manohar (Manu) also assaulted in the face of the Deputy Superintendent of Excise Officer. Manu, who is a day-to-day employee on outsourced basis, also attacked a uniformed officer while other officers were standing by. Manu, who has assaulted the department officer, challenged saying "Do whatever you want". Videos have gone viral as locals shoot video on their mobile phones and upload photos of uniformed department officials, uniformed inspector and jeep driver being attacked. There are serious objections to the conduct of the excise inspector and the driver, who are demanding the eviction of the street protesters from the district.
Report of complaint: Excise Department DYSE Shivappa lodged a complaint at the Shanivarasante police station. On his way to duty, Excise Inspector Nataraj, Outsourced Driver Manohar (Manu), Guards Veerash and Kantaraju have attacked and abused him. Driver Bhuvaneshwar has also filed a complaint against the four men for allegedly assaulting them.
Counterpart: Inspector of the Excise Department, Nataraj, filed a complaint at the station on Saturday, though it is obvious that he is wrong in the video of the entire incident. The complaint states that DYSE Shivappa and others from the department attacked with tools, knives when he went to Alursiddapura for duty.
Krishnanayak, the officer in charge of the case, is also investigating. The FIR has been lodged against Shivappa's complaint of four officers, who have also filed a complaint against Nataraj. While Nagaraj has also lodged a complaint against him. Action will be taken as per the guidance of the department. They witnessed the strange incidents in which officers and staff of the same department were assaulted by officers who went to check the overall illegality, and were suspicious of the relationship between the owner of the wine shop and the inspector and driver of the department.
(This article is translated by xklsv internet media pvt. Ltd, from shakthidaily.info; the Shakthi Daily is not liable for any errors in translation.)
