TWO serving bureaucrats, certainly one of whom is an IAS officer of the 1990 batch and was Chief Secretary, Andaman & Nicobar (A&N) Islands, have been accused of sexual assault and gangrape by a 21-year-old girl in Port Blair.
Responding to her criticism on August 22 to the Director Normal of Police, A&N Islands, an FIR was lodged on the Aberdeen police station in Port Blair on October 1 and police have arrange a Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) to probe her allegations, The Indian Specific has learnt.
The SIT is headed by a Senior Superintendent of Police and the lady has been supplied police safety.
The 2 officers the sufferer has accused of rape, and who’re named within the FIR, are: Jitendra Narain, who was Chief Secretary of A&N Islands till three months in the past when the alleged incident occurred and R L Rishi, posted as Labour Commissioner in A&N Islands.
Narain is at present Chairman & Managing Director of the Delhi Monetary Company. When contacted in New Delhi, Narain mentioned he wouldn’t wish to touch upon the “absurd” allegations. Sources near him mentioned he has despatched a “detailed illustration” to the Prime Minister’s Workplace and the Union Residence Secretary, amongst others, denying the fees.
Rishi was unavailable for remark and his workplace advised The Indian Specific that he was on “medical depart.” The Indian Specific has confirmed that the licence plate of the automotive talked about by the lady – wherein she was taken to Narain’s home — is registered in Rishi’s identify.
Within the FIR (No. 165/2022) , the complainant has requested that CCTV footage from Narain’s home must be collected and that she would determine his workers who also needs to be questioned.
The lady’s criticism, accessed by The Indian Specific, offers an in depth account of the violent sexual assault on her on two events at evening in April and Could at Narain’s official residence in Port Blair.
In her criticism, the lady has mentioned that looking for a job, she was was launched to the Labour Commissioner by means of a resort proprietor and the Commissioner took her to the residence of the Chief Secretary. There, she mentioned, she was provided liquor which she refused and was assured authorities employment . Subsequently, she alleged, she was brutally and sexually abused by the 2 males.
Two weeks later, she alleged within the criticism, she was once more known as at 9 pm by them to the Chief Secretary’s residence and the assault was repeated. As an alternative of the promised authorities job, she alleged, she was threatened with dire penalties if she spoke concerning the matter to anybody.
Sources mentioned the SIT staff have gotten a brand new workplace and can deal with the probe in a “honest and time-bound” method. A Part 164 CrPC (confessional assertion) of the lady has been recorded by the SIT in addition to by the Chief Metropolitan Justice of the Peace in Port Blair the place she filed a second criticism. A relative of the lady mentioned that they may enchantment for the Part 164 assertion to be recorded once more by way of video-conferencing as a “precaution.”
The scope of the probe has additionally been widened to incorporate the alleged function of a neighborhood information channel reporter, who’s alleged to have broadcast hints concerning the girl’s identification in addition to a police inspector who allegedly “leaked data” of the case to her. This follows a separate police criticism filed by the lady on how her identification was being disclosed by way of members of the native media.
Narain has reportedly claimed, in his written denials, that the accusations had been on the behest of native officers in opposition to whom he had taken motion as Chief Secretary and so they had been behind a “malicious” marketing campaign in opposition to him. He has mentioned he would totally cooperate with the police and was prepared to face trial.