India, July 1 -- Union minister Nitin Gadkari has condemned the "heinous" assault on NHAI employee Achal Jindal, saying that such a brutal attack on a public servant not only endangers individual safety but also erodes institutional integrity.

Jindal, employed as a manager with the National Highways Authority of India (NHA), and his site engineer Yogesh were allegedly assaulted while inspecting a site in Shimla where a five-storey building had collapsed.

The two employees are under treatment at Indira Gandhi Medical College.

"The heinous assault on Shri Achal Jindal, Manager, NHAI PIU Shimla, allegedly by the Minister of Panchayati Raj, Himachal Pradesh, and his associates, is deeply reprehensible and an affront to the rule of law. Suc...