The Nagaland Police has constituted a Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) to probe allegations of sexual harassment towards senior IAS officer Reny Wilfred by staff of the Funding and Improvement Authority of Nagaland (IDAN), the place he’s Joint Secretary.
Wilfred referred to as the case a political try and “repair” him.
In line with a press release issued by the Nagaland police, the present case started when the chairperson of the Nagaland State Fee for Girls, Ngineig Konyak, wrote to DGP Rupin Sharma on March 17, stating that she had obtained “verbal intimation” of the allegations from IDAN chairman Abu Metha.
Metha is advisor to the Nagaland Chief Minister and Secretary Normal of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Occasion (NDPP), which is in energy in Nagaland in coalition with the BJP.
In line with the police assertion, NSCW recorded statements of the alleged victims final month, which they forwarded to the DGP. Additionally they forwarded a letter submitted by Metha, which has an enclosure of the letter by IDAN staff complaining of alleged sexual harassment.
In line with police, a preliminary enquiry was carried out, which “revealed the fee of a cognizable offence of sexual harassment… warranting an in-depth felony investigation”, and an FIR for sexual harassment was registered on April 2. A five-member SIT, led by a senior IPS officer, has additionally been constituted to research the case.
Talking to reporters in Kohima, Wilfred claimed that the fees had been an try and drive him to depart Nagaland.
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“For a sexual harassment criticism, there’s something referred to as due course of. Even when NSCW obtained it, the criticism ought to have been given to the Inside Complaints Committee, which exists in each IDAN and the Secretariat. The committee ought to have evaluated it after which submitted it to the police for analysis. The entire course of has been short-circuited to make sure that a case is filed and stuck… Be happy to arrest me; I’m going to be in Nagaland. Enable me time to show myself,” he mentioned.
Wilfred had earlier been embroiled in a case of alleged sexual assault of two minor women throughout his time period as District Collector of Noklak district.
In that case, an SIT filed a chargesheet towards him in 2021. He challenged the case, which is at the moment underneath trial in Tuensang. He sought to have the trial shifted to a different district, citing a menace to his life and apprehensions a few truthful trial.
Wilfred alleged that the sooner case was registered after he “discovered that baby trafficking was taking place” within the district. “I requested folks to see that it’s not profitable. As an alternative, I obtained a criticism towards me,” he claimed.
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