CB-CID files chargesheet against ex-IPS officer in sexual harassment case

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 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.

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