Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad was today barred from flying by four private Indian carriers after his brazen assault on an Air India officer yesterday.
Here is a look at the few infamous instances of public assault on citizens by elected representatives.
BJP MLA B Suresh Gowda assaulted a toll gate manager for not provising a separate VIP lane for his car.
BJP MP Anant Kumar Hegde kicked and assaulted two doctors and a worker of a private hospital in Sirsi for not attending to his mother on a priority basis in January 2017
YSR Congress Party MP P Mithun Reddy in 2015 slapped and assaulted an Air India station Manager at Renigunta airport in Andhra Pradesh after he refused to give him and his kin boarding passes after the boarding for their flight had closed.
Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) MP M Jagannadham who is a former Congress MP slapped a bank manager in 2009 for not giving him satisfactory answers on loan disbursement.