A senior official of Kendrapara district has allegedly forced two revenue inspectors to do sit-ups for coming late in a meeting at Rajnagar, officials said today.
The victims lodged a written complaint with the district collector yesterday and alleged that the Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Basant Kumar Rout made them to do sit-ups during a review meeting of revenue circles at the tehsil office on Tuesday.
The meeting was scheduled to be held at 9.30 am. The revenue inspectors of Righagada and Gupti revenue circles turned up at the meeting 15 minutes late. The senior officer rebuked them and later forced them to do sit ups in front of other colleagues.
Kendrapara Collector Reghu G said "after enquiry, the incident was found to be true. Such behaviour on the part of the ADM was undesirable. He has tendered unconditional apology to a delegation of revenue inspectors."
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