The acting chief medical superintendent of the Joint District Hospital at Birsinghpur in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur district was booked on Monday for making allegedly objectionable remarks about Chief Minister Adityanath and the state government, reported The Indian Express .

Bhaskar Prasad was also suspended from service on Tuesday.

The action came after a purported video of a conversation Prasad had with protesters from the Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday was widely shared online, according to the newspaper.

The protesters had been demonstrating outside the hospital against negligence and poor conditions at the facility. They had also threatened to hold a funeral procession with effigies of Prasad and the chief medical officer.

Prasad was purportedly heard telling the protesters to

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