Disabled man hurls phone at ADM, slapped by guards Indore: The Indore district administration’s weekly public hearing on Tuesday turned chaotic after a disabled man allegedly threw his mobile phone at ADM Pavan Jain, hitting him on the chest. The enraged IAS official then rebuked the applicant in full public view and security guards allegedly slapped the wheelchair-bound man. No police case had been registered till Tuesday night. Krishna Pathak, 28, of Sai Baba Nagar, who cannot use both his legs, somehow made it to the first floor of the district collectorate where the public hearing was being held around 12.30pm. He requested the guards to let him meet some senior officials but they asked him to show a registration slip to submit his application. This triggered an argument. “There was no escalator running and no wheelchair for a handicapped person like me,” Pathak alleged. The guards rejected his allegations, brought a wheelchair for him immediately and took him to the officials who were receiving applications at the public hearing. Pathak, who also has problems speaking as people with cleft palates generally do, approached Jain, and tried to explain his problem. He said he lives alone in a 15x40 sq ft home in Saibaba Nagar, which was stated to be his decedent property but had not yet been transferred in his name in the documents. Pathak wants to sell the property but cannot because he doesn’t have the legal rights yet. Enraged at not getting the attention he desired, Pathak first slammed a thick file of documents he carried to the public hearing on the table and then threw a mobile phone that broke in three — battery, cover and body — and hit the ADM sitting opposite Pathak, say sources. Jain, enraged by Pathak’s behavior, allegedly shouted at him while the guards allegedly slapped him twice. Pathak was taken outside the collectorate and told to leave. While Pathak couldn’t be contacted, Jain denied making any comment on the incident. TNN https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/disabled-man-hurls-phone-at-adm-slapped-by-guards/articleshow/94954391.cms
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