Gurgaon’s Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Bharti Arora has accused her boss, Commissioner of Police Navdeep Singh Virk, of harassment and mental torture and wrongly interfering in the enquiry into a high-profile rape case. She has also demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) enquiry into the matter. Virk, however, denied the allegations.
Bharti Arora is an IPS officer of 1998 batch, while Navdeep Singh Virk is an IPS officer of 1994 batch. Both belong to the Haryana cadre.
“I am writing to Haryana DGP Yashpal Singhal and will demand high-level probe, including CBI, into the wrongly interference by Virk in the alleged rape case,” Bharti Arora told media-persons.
It was established during the investigation of a case 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. She also said that the complainant had earlier too slapped such charges on two men.
“When I started investigation into the rape case I realised that the Commissioner of Police has falsely implicated 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’,” Bharti Arora told media.
Earlier, Bharti Arora had written to DGP Singhal against Commissioner of Police Virk, seeking his intervention, saying she feared that Virk might harm her career.
Virk has also sent a report to the DGP alleging that Bharti is bent on saving the rape accused as the sister of the accused is known to her.
It is noteworthy that Ajay Bhardwaj, an MNC executive and the son of Gurgaon’s former (IAS) deputy commissioner R.P. Bhardwaj was booked for rape (376) and his family members for criminal intimidation (506) under Indian Penal Code last year.
The complainant was Bhardwaj’s former live-in partner, a resident of Ardee City Gurgaon, with whom she has a child. Bhardwaj was arrested by Gurgaon police from his office in Noida on August 1, 2014. The controversy started in July last year when Arora was asked to probe the case. At that time, Virk was not posted as Gurgaon police chief.
The JCP has claimed that she carried out the investigation and found that the offences mentioned in the FIR could not be made out but Virk wanted to indict the accused.
Virk, responding to the allegations, said: “I am sad that the valued colleague had to issue false statements in the media in matters which are official and under the consideration of the police headquarters, to hide her own misconduct.”
Virk said the concerned officer is levelling such false allegations to hide her own illegal actions as a report for taking action against her has been sent to DGP Haryana
“The rape victim has also been given security on the orders of the Supreme Court and she has made several complaints about the misconduct of JCP Arora,” Virk added. [with inputs from IANS]
