A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) municipal councillor in Meerut was arrested Saturday for allegedly beating up a sub-inspector of police and roughing up a woman accompanying him as an argument over delayed service at his restaurant turned violent, police said.

A case of assault and other charges was registered against councillor Manish Panwar and his staff at the Black Pepper restaurant on the woman’s complaint, a police officer said. Footage of the CCTV camera shows the woman throwing plates in the restaurant and Panwar repeatedly slapping sub-inspector Sukhpal Singh Panwar and abusing him and his staff dragging him on the floor.

The police officer tried to capture the entire incident on his mobile phone, but the staff members snatched it away.