Haryana women panel asks DGP B S Sandhu to provide security to woman IAS officer

CHANDIGARH: Haryana State Commission for Women on Monday asked the DGP B S Sandhu to supply ok safety to the young lady IAS officer who had accused an extra leader secretary-level officer of sexual harassment and dangerous her. The fee had made this request to the DGP after hearing the girl officer who had seemed before the fee.
Both the complainant and senior officer, who has been accused of harassment, were asked to seem before the fee at 2 pm on Monday after taking suo motu cognizance of reports reviews regarding the incident.

The lady officer had seemed before the fee with certain record and apprised the panel about all of the incident for few hours.

After popping out of office, the 36-year-old lady officer seemed upset with the hearing of the case before the fee. However, she wondered the presence of a senior lady IAS officer all the way through the hearing. She additionally stated that a separate criticism has additionally been despatched to the executive secretary and the police for suitable motion.

The senior bureaucrat, who has been accused of harassment, on the other hand, failed to seem before the panel and demanded 3 days’ time to offer his defence. The panel, on the other hand, has asked him to stay provide on Wednesday.

When contacted, Pratibha Suman, chairperson, Haryana State Commission for Women, told TOI that panel has heard the complainant officer and two more officials will also be asked to sign up for the investigation of the incident.

She, on the other hand, refused the allegations of involving any 3rd officer and said that the senior lady officer was additionally named by the complainant and because of this the fee had involved her within the investigation.

“We are independently probing all of the incident. DGP Haryana has been asked to supply safety to the complainant. The complainant has been heard patiently for several hours and may be asked to return again. We would be capable of share any further details after the belief of the probe,” the chairperson added.

As per the criticism, given by the 2014-batch lady IAS officer, her senior officer used to talk in “double meaning words” with her and even threatened her to destroy her annual confidential record (ACR).

“At one occasion, the officer told me “Jab koi nayee dulhan aati hai ghar mein to use samjhana padta hai, mai tumhe samjha raha hun” (When a newly-wed bride enters the house, she must be defined the whole thing, and he was explaining to me in the similar way). His behaviour seems immoral,” criticism had submitted within the criticism shared on her Facebook wall. The senior bureaucrat, on the other hand, has termed the allegations and false and baseless.