IPS officer alleges harassment by senior

Gurgaon, Sep 29: Gurgaon's Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Bharti Arora has accused her boss, Navdeep Singh Virk, of harassment and mental torture and wrongly interfering in the inquiry into a high-profile rape case. She has also demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the matter. Virk, however, denied the allegations. "I am writing to Haryana DGP Yashpal Singhal and will demand high-level probe, including CBI, into the wrong interference by Virk in the alleged rape case," Arora told mediapersons. It was established during the investigation that the alleged rape accused Ajay Bhardwaj, son of a senior IAS officer, and his family was intentionally implicated in the rape case, JCP Arora said. The officer said that complainant had earlier too had slapped such charges on two men. "When I started investigation into the rape case I realised that the Commissioner of Police has falsely implicated the entire family in the case. I objected and told him this is wrong. Then he started torturing me mentally, threatened me and said, 'leave the case, otherwise you will suffer'," Arora told media.