Overview
- Videos that spread Saturday prompted police to book Titlagarh MLA Nabin Kumar Jain over shots fired during Friday’s Ram Navami procession.
- Officers filed an FIR under Section 125 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for acts endangering public safety and under Section 25 of the Arms Act, and they seized his pistol.
- Police say he fired three rounds from a licensed 0.32 bore pistol during the march.
- Jain denies using a real firearm and calls it a playful act with a toy gun.
- His personal security officer, seen helping handle the pistol in the video, was suspended and summoned for questioning, while the BJD demanded Jain’s arrest.