Metropolitan Magistrate A N Chavare of the Borivli court issued the summons on Thursday to Congress corporator from ward 139, Kamlesh Yadav, on a criminal complaint filed by advocate Rajeshkumar Dubey. Yadav along with other two accused, Amarbhadur Shukla, Principal of Gandhi Vidya Mandir, Kandivli (W) and Ramdayal Yadav, personal assistant to the corporator, have been directed to appear before the magistrate on August 19.

In his complaint, Dubey, a resident of Gaurav Seva Society at Azad Nagar compound, Gandhinagar, Kandivli (W), has alleged that he was assaulted by the trio on June 9, when he complained to the Kandivli police against digging work undertaken by the corporator outside the housing society's walls.

Apart from being beaten up in front of a police constable, the petitioner claims the corporator followed him to the policechowky, snatched his gold rings and pens and threatened to kill him in the presence of the beat officer.

Yadav, however, has denied the allegations, saying he had not received any court summons. He says Dubey tried to stop civic workers from fencing the walls and on an earlier occasion, the lawyer had tried to prevent the civic administration from building a toilet block in the locality.