Overview
- Bengaluru’s Cubbon Park police registered an FIR after a late‑night inspection at a Residency Road bar on Oct. 10 that alleged IAS officer Vikas Marmat and three associates abused, threatened and obstructed officers.
- The complaint by Inspector Arun Salunke named Marmat as the main accused and charged the group under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for causing hurt, criminal intimidation, insulting behaviour, assault on a public servant and common intention.
- A video of the confrontation circulated widely online and, according to police, Marmat and the others apologised to officers the next morning.
- Chief Secretary G. Sai Prasad issued a transfer order directing Marmat to report to the General Administration Department and asked the Chittoor collector to arrange an in‑charge for the Kuppam Area Development Authority post he left vacant.
- Opposition leaders have seized on the case to allege official impunity because Marmat served in Kuppam, the constituency of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, and the episode now carries both a pending police probe and a state administrative inquiry that could determine further disciplinary steps.