Gujarat IAS Officer Thrashed & Held Hostage
IAS officer Nitin Sangwan, who serves in a senior position in Gujarat, was recently held hostage by kidnappers and brutally thrashed
Nitin Sangwan is a 2016 IAS officer who is posted in Gujarat. Sangwan was one of the toppers of the 2015 UPSC as he garnered All India Rank 28 in the Civil Services exam. After doing mechanical engineering in Haryana, Sangwan also completed his Masters from IIT Madras. He is an IAS officer in the Gujarat cadre and has held several important positions in the state. IAS officer Nitin Sangwan is currently serving as the Director of Fisheries in Gujarat, where he was tasked with inspecting a fishing project. The Gujarat government provides a subsidy to local contractors to start "cage culture fishing" in the Dharoi dam water.
Nitin Sangwan and his team were investigating a fishing project in a village near the Dharoi dam in Sabarkantha district. Sangwan went to investigate irregularities in the project. He started talking to fishing contractor Babu Parmar, who got hostile and attacked Sangwan as he was afraid that his illegalities would be exposed. Parmar bit Sangan on the leg and four more people arrived at the scene to thrash the bureaucrat. Parmar and his men later held Sangwan hostage and made him sign a paper, promising that they would stop investigating the case. Babu Parmar and others threatened to throw Sangwan and his team members into the dam. He then managed to escape and filed a complaint with the police. Those arrested were identified by the police as Babu Parmar, Nilesh Gamar and Vishnu Gamar.
