NEW DELHI: AAP’s Tilak Nagar MLA , Jarnail Singh , allegedly beat up a South Corporation junior engineer on Tuesday. The victim, Azhar Mustafa, said he had gone to Krishna Park to demolish an illegal construction when Singh along with other residents obstructed the work and bashed him up.

“We had received complaints of illegal construction being carried out in the area and had gone there with police. We had all the papers which we showed Singh. He tore them up. He threatened to beat us up if we continued; when police intervened, he started beating us up,” Mustafa said.

Singh, however, rubbished the allegations and said Krishna Park is a regularized colony. “There are over 50 buildings that are under construction, but engineers pick and choose buildings for demolition. No demolition notice was served to the owner of the property and they came with their machinery. The engineer also misbehaved with women labourers. We will file a police complaint against the engineer,” said Singh.

South Delhi mayor Subhash Arya has called for an inquiry in the matter. “No person can take law and order in his hands and start beating up our officials. If the official was right in taking action then politicians had no right to intervene. Even police were present at the time of the incident and yet our official was beaten up,” Arya said.

