Haryana senior IPS officer alleges caste harassment against DGP Haryana Manoj Yadava

New Delhi, May 25

Inspector-General of Police Y Puran Kumar has filed a complaint against DGP Manoj Yadava for allegedly harassing him on basis of his caste. He has sought an FIR against the police chief under the stringent Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989.

In his complaint lodged with Ambala Senior Superintendent of Police Hamid Akhtar on May 19, Puran Kumar said that the DGP has “some personal grudge" against him due to him belonging to a scheduled caste.

The officer in his complaint alleged that he had visited a temple on August 3, 2020, situated inside the premises of Traffic police station Sahazadpur in Ambala. The same day, the then Ambala SP Abhishek Jorwal also visited the temple. On August 17, the DGP in a semi-official letter asked Kumar to inform whether any prior sanction of the government was obtained before setting up the place of worship in the police station. However, Abhishek Jorwal was not asked about it, he said.

"DGP Yadava has been trying to harass, humiliate, insult, threaten and intimidate me in one or other way with discriminatory conduct,” said Kumar claimed in his complaint.

The IPS officer also accused Manoj Yadava of preventing him from entering a place of worship from August 2020 till date which, he said, amounted to “atrocity” and falls under the ambit of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act). Kumar reasoned that similar places of worship also existed in other police premises throughout Haryana and most of which do not have any prior permission of the government.

Kumar further stated that he had written to the DGP on January 29 this year, informing him that the said temple at the Sahazadpur traffic police station existed since 2011, much before he was posted as the Ambala range IG. 

He had also written another letter in February this year to Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Rajiv Arora and provided him with the details of the case.