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Himanshu Behera is a resident of Baujung village under Balichandrapur police station. He is a truck driver, and used to drive trucks of different private truck owners. He used to drive Sudarshan Panda’s vehicle, who is a resident of Dakihnasasan village. Sudarshan, the owner, was paying him half of his
salary for a long time. There were arguments frequently between the two regarding the matter. Every time Himanshu talks about quitting his job over this half salary incident, Sudarshan abuses him with obscene language. After such an exchange of words, Himanshu left driving Sudarshan's truck and started driving a new owner's vehicle named Biswajit Samal, inhabitant of village: Mahipur, PS: Balichandrapur. Sudarshan got angry seeing new owner's truck delivering goods at the same place where his truck used to deliver by Himanshu. Suddenly on 04.08.2022 afternoon three accused persons namely, Sudarshan, Panchanan and Debasish, came on a bike, stopped the truck driven by Himanshu parked the bike in the front of the truck. They started shouting abusive language aspersing the caste name of Himanshu. They dragged him from the vehicle and brutally assaulted him with various weapons. They left Himanshu badly injured, bleeding and unconscious. Shortly after that Bishwajit Samal came and rescued him and took him to Dharamshala Hospital. From there the doctor sent him to Cuttack hospital and after staying there for 6-7 days he returned home and went to Dharamsala police station to lodge complaint. Initially the police did not register FIR as the accused were influential people. With great difficulty and much persuasion, his case was registered on 12.08.2022. As the accused belonged to the influential class, they asked for their case not to be register under SC/ST PoA act, but finally with the help of our efforts, this Act was invoked.