Madhya Pradesh police officer Purushottam Sharma justified his actions towards his spouse
Bhopal:
The information anchor of a regional TV channel in Bhopal has filed a police grievance towards the spouse and son of an IPS (police) officer, accusing them of tarnishing her status.
Purushottam Sharma, a 1986 batch IPS officer, was transferred following a viral video which confirmed him thrashing his spouse, quickly after she confronted him on the anchor’s flat.
The anchor submitted a grievance towards Mr Sharma’s spouse and son on the Shahpura police station, and claimed that the IPS officer is “like a father” to her and calls her ‘beta’.
“The grievance states that her privateness and picture has suffered lots within the society and precipitated disrepute to her identify,” Shahpura police station in-charge Jitendra Patel advised information company Press Belief of India.
The anchor has demanded that police take applicable motion within the matter and shield her from present process “psychological torture.”
“As I’m related to journalism, I preserve assembly officers and politicians very often,” she mentioned in her grievance.
“On Sunday (September 27), DG Purushottam Sharma referred to as me round 7 pm, saying he’s close to my place (residence), so I invited him over for a cup of tea,” she mentioned.
The anchor mentioned a while later, Mr Sharma’s spouse additionally reached her flat and rang the doorbell. “I do not know her however I opened the door out of courtesy, after which she forcibly entered the flat,” she added.
Mr Sharma and his spouse had a combat, after which the IPS officer went out of the home,” she mentioned.
She claimed that Mr Sharma’s spouse stayed again and requested her “pointless questions” and likewise made a video-recording of her bed room, which was made viral on social media by Mr Sharma’s son, making “baseless allegations” towards her.
“DG Saab (Sharma) is like my father and he used to name me ‘beta’,” the anchor mentioned.
“I by no means realised that his coming to my dwelling for a cup of tea will turn into such an enormous subject. It has tarnished my picture and compromised my privateness,” she mentioned within the grievance.
The police station in-charge mentioned that as it is a matter of inflicting disrepute to someones picture, a grievance will be filed solely in courtroom.
The order to take away Mr Sharma from the put up of Director Public Prosecution and switch him to the state secretariat with out assigning him any put up was issued by the state dwelling division Underneath Secretary Annu Bhalavi on Monday.
“Two movies associated to you went viral on social media through which prima facie you might be seen partaking in immoral behaviour and home violence together with your spouse,” a show-cause discover issued by Annu Bhalavi to Purushottam Sharma had mentioned.
“Your actions are in violation of the All India Providers guidelines and due to this fact, you might be directed to provide your clarification on why disciplinary motion shouldn’t be taken towards you to your acts,” it had mentioned.
The federal government has requested Mr Sharma to submit his reply by 5:30 pm right now, failing which it is going to be construed that he does not have any response to file and accordingly motion might be initiated towards him, the order mentioned.
Mr Sharma’s son Parth, a deputy commissioner within the Earnings Tax Division, despatched the video to state House Minister Narottam Mishra and a few senior bureaucrats, and requested {that a} grievance be registered towards his father.
Mr Sharma, who has been married for 32 years, had mentioned, “This can be a household matter, not against the law…I’m not a prison. My spouse stalks me wherever I’m going. I’m coping with this.”
The state girls’s fee has summoned Mr Sharma on October 5 and likewise directed it to offer safety to his spouse.
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