Suspended IAS officer grilled over gangrape charge
October 29, 2022 15:24
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the police on Saturday questioned former chief secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jitendra Narain in connection with the alleged gangrape of a 21-year-old woman, an official said.
The grilling of the official began around 11 AM and was underway at the Police Lines in Port Blair.
The SIT, headed by senior IPS officer Monika Bhardwaj of the Andaman and Nicobar Police, had questioned Narain for over eight hours on Friday.
The SIT was constituted to probe allegations that the woman was lured to the chief secretary's residence with the promise of a government job and then raped by top officials including Narain.
Labour Commissioner R L Rishi was also accused of raping the woman while a police inspector and a hotel owner were named in the FIR as accomplices in the crime.
The police inspector was also interrogated by the SIT on Friday.
Narain is being kept at private resort here. The senior official has arrived here to face questioning following a Calcutta High Court order.
The FIR was registered on October 1 when Narain was posted as the chairman and managing director of the Delhi Financial Corporation. The government suspended him on October 17 with immediate effect.
The woman said as her father and stepmother did not take care of her financial needs, she needed a job and was introduced by some people to the labour commissioner as he was close to the then chief secretary.
She claimed in the FIR that the chief secretary appointed "7,800 candidates" in various departments in the administration of the islands "on the basis of recommendation only" and without any "formal interview".
The woman alleged that she was lured to the chief secretary's home with the promise of a government job, and then raped there on April 14 and May 1. -- PTI
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