BJP MLA and son of senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya, Akash Vijayvargiya has been arrested for thrashing a Municipal Corporation officer with a cricket bat in Madhya Pradesh's Indore. ANI reported that a case was registered against Vijayvargiya and 10 others for thrashing a Municipal Corporation officer in Indore, and that Vijayvargiya has been.
In a video, which has now gone viral on social media, in which it can be see that BJP MLA Akash is thrashing a Municipal Corporation officer with a cricket bat. The incident took place when the Municipal Corporation's officers were in the area for an anti-encroachment drive.
The BJP MLA went about beating up the officer even as media persons surrounded him with cameras and recorded the entire incident. BJP leader Hitesh Bajpai told India Today TV that Akash Vijayvargiya thrashed the officer because he asked for a bribe during the encroachment drive in Indore.