Sambalpur, April 5 -- Odisha BJP MLA Jayanarayan Mishra stirred controversy by allegedly abusing a police IIC and threatening him to kill and set the police station on fire.

An FIR has been registered in this regard by Sambalpur Town Police Station IIC Subrat Kumar Meher against Jayanarayan Mishra, who represents Sambalpur in Odisha State Legislative Assembly, under sections 296/351(3)/351(4)/221 of BNS. As per the complaint, Meher received a phone call from Jayanarayan Mishra at 8.53 am on April 3 while he along with other police officials including SI Ashish Kumar Pradhan and ASI Padmanav Purohit were discussing about the upcoming Januman Jayanti ccelebration. The legislator asked about a sword seizure case and threatened to burn t...