Puri, Aug 19 (PTI) : A man threw ink at Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s private secretary V K Pandian and Puri District Collector Samarth Verma in Satyabadi area on Saturday, police said.
The incident took place while Pandian, a 2000 batch IAS officer also the 5T secretary was attending an event at Utkalmani Gopabandhu Smruti Mahavidyalaya in Satyabadi locality of Puri district.
The man who allegedly hurled ink at the IAS officers was identified as Bhaskar Sahoo, a resident of Haripur village under Kanas block in Satyabadi assembly segment area in the district. The police overpowered Sahoo and detained him.