Sr Haryana official held for ‘trying to kill’ IAS wife, granted bail

MUZAFFARNAGAR: A Haryana government’s senior official arrested for allegedly trying to kill his wife, a Bihar-cadre IAS officer, at her parent’s house here in Muzaffarnagar early this month, was granted bail by a local court on Monday.

District and sessions Judge Rajiv Sharma granted bail to Rajeev Nayan, posted as a regional labour commissioner in Gurugram, at the time of his arrest on a personal bond of ₹50,000 with two sureties of the same amount.

The case against Nayan had been registered by Muzaffarnagar police on a complaint by his wife Shaija Sharma, presently posted as a joint secretary in the Bihar government’s road construction department.

According to the prosecution, the 37-year-old IAS officer had alleged in her complaint that her estranged husband barged into her parent’s house on August 1 and attacked her, trying to strangulate her to death.

On woman’s complaint, a case was registered against Rajeev Nayan under sections 307, 452, 352, 504 and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code besides the 66B of the Information Technology Act.