Mayor’s son, 4 others held for disrupting traffic with birthday celebration in Raipur

Raipur(Ajoy Mishra): A newly-elected mayor’s son and four others were arrested after a video of them celebrating the former’s birthday on the road and disrupting traffic in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur surfaced on social media. The incident took place in front of the mayor’s residence in the Changorabhata locality under the DD Nagar police station limits around 12.30 am on Saturday.

Raipur mayor Meenal Choubey’s son Mrinak Choubey alias Mehul, and his friends Avinash Chandel alias Chintu, Manoj Gautam, Chhagan Dewangan and Roshan Kumar Dewangan, were arrested on Saturday, police said. Based on a complaint, a case under section 126 (2) (wrongful restraint) and other relevant provisions of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered, the official said.

He said the alleged accused were presented in the court of a sub-divisional magistrate and were granted bail. Mayor Meenal Choubey had taken oath along with 69 elected corporators of the Raipur Municipal Corporation in a swearing-in ceremony just a few hours before the incident on Friday.