NEW DELHI: A Delhi Court has summoned a senior Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) officer for sexually harassing a junior KAS officer while he was the Additional Resident Commissioner in New Delhi. Police had registered an FIR against him under Sections 354-A and 509 of the Indian Penal Code on directions of the Delhi High Court. The case was registered after his immediate junior complained against him for forcing her to develop physical relations.
The Court order comes after the Delhi Police had sought closure of the case citing lack of evidence for prosecuting him. The female officer had filed a protest petition through her Lawyer seeking dismissal of the closure report. The former Dy. Advocate General appearing for the complainant pointed out that the IO of the case has deliberately tried to eclipse statements of various important witnesses who had testified against him.
Pertinently, these witnesses include 2 female KAS officers and MLA who was then MOS (Hospitality & Protocol). The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Dass while holding that the IO of the case is wrong in his opinion and that there is ample material on record has summoned him through the Resident Commissioner of J&K at Delhi and has asked him to appear on 16th November to face trial.