BAREILLY: An FIR was registered on Thursday against BJP MLA from Bareilly’s Nawabganj town, Kesar Singh Gangwar , a day after the legislator allegedly assaulted a bank manager, dragged him out of the branch and briefly detailed him in his car.This was second such incident in Bareilly in a space of 10 days where a saffron party legislator flouted the law with impunity. On the evening of April 17, BJP MLA Mahendra Yadav was caught on camera purportedly thrashing toll plaza staffers in Fatehganj area of the district. The legislator got furious on being asked to pay toll for the vehicles of his cavalcade.On Thursday evening, police registered a case against Nawabganj MLA Gangwar under sections 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and 347 (wrongful confinement to extort property, or constrain to illegal act), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal Code (IPC), superintendent of police (rural) Yamuna Prasad told TOI.According to sources, the FIR was registered after the intervention of IG Bareilly zone Vijay Prakash.The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon, when Nawabganj legislator Gangwar, who was expelled from BSP before joining the saffron party ahead of the UP polls, reached Bank of Baroda’s Dalelnagar branch with his supporters.According to a written complaint filed by branch manager Harish Kumar Hyanki, the MLA stormed into the bank with his aides and directed him to release fund deposited into a farmer’s savings account.“The MLA’s complaint pertained to a loan defaulter, whose account was frozen after he failed to pay installments of his Rs 50,000 loan. There was no way we could have released the fund from his savings accounts when it was frozen. I tried explaining it to the MLA, but he insisted on releasing the money,” the manager said.But, manager Hyanki’s refusal made the MLA furious.After a heated duel, Gangwar and his aides started beating Hyanki and dragged him out of the bank premises amid scores of stunned customers and bank employees.They shoved Hyanki into the MLA’s car and veered off.“The MLA assaulted me, tore my shirt, dragged me out of the branch and forced me into his car. He later forced me to give written assurance that the payment will be made to the defaulter, and threatened me of dire consequences,” the banker said in his police complaint.According to Hyanki, he was dumped at an unknown location in Nawabganj. A visibly shaken Hyanki returned to the bank with bruise marks on his head and hand.Later, top bank officials, including regional manager PC Pandey, held a meeting and filed a police complaint against the MLA on Wednesday evening.The MLA, on the other hand, trashed all the charges. “Payment was not being released by the bank to a customer after which we held talks with the manager. There was no incident of misbehavior with him,” Gangwar told TOI.Employees from other neighbouring banks also rushed to Dalelnagar branch after the incident in solidarity with the assaulted manager, and anger among them was palpable.Aggrieved family of the bank manger also reached Bareilly. “I don’t want my husband to be in a job where there is an open threat to his life. What wrong have we done to anyone to deserve such an insult?” Hyanki’s wife asked.