Minister for Financial Affairs and Planning of Province 2 Bijay Yadav has manhandled secretary at another ministry on Sunday.
Secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Forest, Environment and Tourism Bidyananda Jha said Minister Yadav summoned him to the minister's office and slapped him. He added that Minister Yadav beat him for not selecting the minister's non-governmental organization (NGO) for an entrepreneurship program for poverty alleviation under the conditional grant given by the federal government.
Other staffers staged a sit-in in front of the minister's office after he manhandled secretary Jha.
The manhandled secretary, meanwhile, has been taken under control by the police. Chief of Dhanusha Police SP Govinda Thapaliya said Jha has been kept at the District Police Office to avoid any unpleasant incident.