Bhubaneswar: The principal of a degree college in Odisha’s Khurda district was allegedly assaulted by a lecture of the same institute today.

The incident took place at Haladia College in Khurda. Victim Umakanta Patra lodged an FIR in this regard with Industrial Police in Khurda.

As per the complaint, history lecturer Bijaya Kumar Bhanja Deo and college governing body president Ranjan Kumar Bhanja accompanied by four persons—Rabi Narayan Bhanja Samanta, Pradipta Kumar Bhanja, Bhabani Prasad Pattanaik and Srikanta Kumar Bhanja—entered the principal’s office this morning and asked him to vacate the place.

The principal refused to vacate the office and asked the lecturer and governing body president to follow legal procedure. Soon they assaulted the principal, said the complaint.

The lecturer and the governing body president heckled the principal, slapped him and pushed him out of the office by holding his neck. The victim sustained injuries on his neck, added the complaint.

A peon and a watchman of the college are witnesses to the incident, mentioned the victim in his FIR. He also submitted his medical report along with the FIR.