Bihar police order probe into sexual exploitation charge

Hours after a DSP charged Kaimur SP with sexually exploiting her, the Bihar police today ordered a probe by a three-member committee headed by Inspector General of Police Anupama Nikelar with a mandate to submit its report at the earliest.
DSP Nirmala Kumari, presently posted as the Bhabhua Sub-Divisional Police Officer, went to the Mahila police station earlier today and lodged a complaint against Kaimur SP Pushkar Anand charging him with sexually exploiting her on the promise of marrying her.
In the complaint, she alleged that Anand exploited her physically for a long time before reneging on his promise to marry her, a charge the Kaimur SP has flatly denied.

"We have ordered a probe by a three-member internal complaints committee under the grievance redressal mechanism in the police into the allegation by DSP Nirmala Kumari charging Kaimur SP Pushkar Anand with sexually exploiting her on the promise of marriage," the Director General of Police (DGP) P K Thakur told PTI.
The three-member internal complaints committee headed by Nilekar with Harpreet Kaur (SP) and Rajesh Kumar (Inspector) as its members have been directed to submit report at the earliest, he said.
Thakur said that he had received a complaint by Kumari on December 23 and added that Further action will be taken in the matter on the basis of the report by the three-member committee.

Trashing the charge levelled against him by the DSP, Anand claimed that he was being framed by the complainant after he refused to take out the name of an ASP Manoj Kumar Yadav from an FIR with regard to kidnapping-cum-murder case.
Alleging that the DSP shared intimate relationship with the accused ASP, the Kaimur SP said he was being framed up in a false and baseless matter with which he has had nothing to do.
Anand said that he was ready to depose before an enquiry team and submit clinching materials with him to get himself exonerated from the charge.