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A viral video which surfaced on Sunday evening, left the Bengal government officials in tizzy after a Bengal cadre IAS officer, Nikhil Nirmal who is the current district magistrate of Alipurduar, was seen beating a youth on camera.
Updated : Jan 07, 2019, 05:52 PM IST
A viral video which surfaced on Sunday evening, left the Bengal government officials in tizzy after a Bengal cadre IAS officer, Nikhil Nirmal who is the current district magistrate of Alipurduar, was seen beating a youth on camera.
He was later sent on leave by the state government.
The video shows Nirmal and his wife both fuming and beating up a local youth inside the Falakata police station and in presence of the inspector-in-charge Soumyajit Ray.
According to sources in the police, the youth had made some lewd comments on Nirmal’s wife’s Facebook profile. Soon, he was summoned to the police station and the duo were seen beating him up in black and blue.
Shockingly, the officer is heard saying in the video, “I will not let you do anything against me in my district. I will enter your house and kill you.”
The husband and wife duo took turns to beat him. Nirmal’s wife is heard asking the youth, “At whose behest did you make such comments?”
See how Bengal IAS officer, Nikhil Nirmal, district magistrate of Alipurduar district take law in his own hands. He & his wife beat up a youth for making lewd comments on his wife’s Facebook profile. Incident unfolds inside the police station & infront IC of Police @dna @ZeeNews pic.twitter.com/iRCO7SnRa6
— Pooja Mehta (@pooja_zeenews) January 6, 2019
While the youth pleaded for mercy, the duo showed him no mercy.
Interestingly, the entire episode unfolded at the police station without the district magistrate or his wife filing any official complaint, instead taking the law into their own hands.
When this correspondent tried reaching Nirmal, he neither answered nor returned calls. The inspector-in-charge too did not answer calls despite several attempts.
Nirmal, is a 2011 Bengal cadre IAS officer and hails from Kerala.