A staff of the Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) was placed under suspension for threatening his senior by brandishing a pistol on Tuesday.
Sources said General Manager Pratap Kumar Swain and a staff Bishnu Kerketta were at loggerheads over some matter. However, in the afternoon, Kerketta barged into Swain’s office chamber and threatened to kill him by brandishing the pistol.
Scared, Swain ran out of the chamber to save his life. But CISF personnel managed to overpower Kerketta and disarmed him.
The accused was sent to the Ispat general Hospital for medical examination and later suspended for his anti-social activities.
However, the RSP authorities claimed that the gun in possession of Kerketta was a toy pistol. But questions have been raised how the accused managed to smuggle the gun into the plant
premises.
