Chennai, July 29 (UNI) The CB-CID wing of the Tamil Nadu Police
on Thursday filed a charge sheet in a court in Villupuram against
a former Special Director General of Police (DGP) who was accused
of sexually harassing a woman IPS officer.
The chargesheet, running to 400 pages, was filed before the Chief
Judicial Magistrate Court, Villupuram, by CB-CID Additional Deputy
Superintendent of Police (ADSP) Gomathi.
On February 27, the CB-CID HAD registered an FIR against the former
Special DGP under sections 354-A (sexual harassment), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint), and 506 (1) criminal intimidation of the IPC and under section 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women
Act, 2002.
The then Chengalpattu Superintendent of Police was also named in the
FIR for stopping the woman police officer, while she was proceeding to
Chennai to lodge a complaint against the senior officer.
