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Bijay Mallik is a resident of Gokan village under Mahanga Block, Cuttack. He was constructing his house. One Gurcharan Rana, a mason, was engaged in the construction work. On 04-04-2023, Bijay was going to drop Sri Rana at his residence riding his motorcycle in the evening, As the duo reached Erakana Chhak, they saw some people had gathered on the Chhak due to an accident that happened some time back. Bijay didn’t want to get detained and requested people to let him go by giving side. One Jagan had kept his bike on the middle of the road which blocked the passage. As Bijay blew the horn for side, Jagan came out of the crowd and assaulted Bijay with a very hard slap. Bijay fell down from the bike; after getting up he asked Jagan why he slapped him. By this Jagan became more aggressive and he abused him with slangs aspersing his caste. He further forced him to take his bike away from the black top road to the side and threatened to make his situation worse if he reported the incident to the police. Bijay and Gurucharan left the spot without any words. After dropping Gurucharan, when Bijay was about to start for his home, Jagan reached there and attempted to assault Bijay again. Bijay in got panicked and ran inside Rana’s house. Frightened, Bijay called Kartik Chandra Mallick and Sanjay Kumar Mallick over the phone to rescue him, Jagan, on seeing these men, rushed back and attacked them with an iron rod. After the incident took place, Bijaya filed a complaint in Badreswara police station, and now the investigation is going on.