#MeToo: J&K cop accuses exADGP of sexual harassment

JAMMU: A woman police officer from J&K has levelled sexual harassment allegations against former director of vigilance organisation Alok Puri.

The woman, who is presently a subdivisional officer with railway police, tweeted her harassment story on Thursday.

“I raised voice against land mafia in my state but had to face sexual harassment in the hands of the then Director Vigilance Alok Puri. Despite complaints against him that I filed no one took action against him. Waiting for Justice ..MeToo (sic),” Shashi Thakur posted on her Twitter handle on Thursday evening.

The vigilance organisation director, Alok Puri, retired as additional director general of police, crime branch, in March 2018. Talking to HT, Thakur said, “Being a police officer, I flagged the issue of land encroachment on state land before him (Puri) in 2015 but I was harassed,” adding that, “they broke my family. I wasn’t given promotions.”

She also recalled that the then J&K CM Omar Abdullah had sent her application to vigilance organisation and it took three years before two investigating officers affirmed that encroachment of state land had taken place.

“They asserted that an FIR should be lodged to initiate action against the land encroacher but when the case was put up before Alok Puri, he started harassing me,” she added. When contacted Puri, he denied all the allegations.