The Nagaland authorities has suspended IAS officer Reny Wilfred, who was the Joint Secretary of the Funding and Improvement Authority of Nagaland (IDAN), amid a legal investigation into sexual harassment expenses towards him.
In April, the Nagaland Police had constituted a particular investigation group (SIT) to probe the allegation towards Wilfred, a 2015-batch officer from the Nagaland cadre, raised by workers of IDAN.
Quickly after that, he was relieved of his place within the IDAN. Nevertheless, a number of influential teams within the state, together with the Naga College students’ Federation and the Naga Moms’ Affiliation, had demanded that he be positioned beneath suspension till the top of the investigation.
In an order signed by Chief Secretary J Alam on Wednesday, he was positioned beneath suspension citing “a legal offence beneath investigation”. It was ordered that throughout the interval of suspension, Wilfred be headquartered on the Personnel and Administrative Reforms Division in Kohima and that he not go away the headquarters with out the Chief Secretary’s permission. The order additionally stated that in this era, he could be entitled to a subsistence allowance “at an quantity equal to go away pay he would have drawn if he had been on go away on half-average pay or half pay”.
In accordance with Nagaland Police, the case towards Wilfred started when the chairperson of the Nagaland State Girls’s Fee, Ngineig Konyak, wrote to DGP Rupin Sharma that she had obtained “verbal intimation” of the allegations from IDAN chairman Abu Metha. Metha is the Advisor to the Nagaland Chief Minister and Secretary Normal of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Social gathering (NDPP), which is in energy in Nagaland in coalition with the BJP.
Wilfred has denied these expenses and advised reporters that this was an try to power him to go away Nagaland. He had alleged that he had lengthy been the goal of “framing” by some unnamed high officers within the Nagaland authorities for not supporting a purported plan to overthrow the Nagaland authorities in 2016, and for performing towards little one trafficking in Noklak district.
He has been embroiled in a case in 2021, too, for the alleged sexual assault of two minor ladies throughout his time period as DC of Noklak district. That case is at the moment beneath trial in Tuensang.
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