IPS officer seeks action against man for threatening him

BIKANER:An

Indian Police Service (IPS) officer has urged the director general of police (DGP) of Rajasthan to take legal action against a man, who allegedly threatened to slap him.

In a letter (HT has the copy) sent to DGP Om Prakash Galhotra, Pankaj Choudhary, the superintendent of police of State Crime Record Bureau (SCRB), requested him to lodge an FIR and arrest the accused, Vijay Singh, who allegedly challenged him to visit Hanumangarh and threatened to slap him in the presence of deputy superintendent of police Virendra Jakhar and other police officers at the Hanumangarh junction police station on Sunday. A video of the incident also went viral in which Vijay Singh is seen abusing Choudhary in the office of the SHO.

Pankaj Choudhary told HT: “How can a person abuse and threaten anyone openly in the presence of senior police officers and that too in a police station?”

“I came to know (about Vijay Singh) when the video went viral. Before that the person was completely unknown to me,” he added.

Sources said that there was a dispute between Choudhary’s mother-in-law Shashi Dutta, a former law minister, and Vijay Singh. Singh’s brother was a tenant and ran a school from the house of Dutta. Singh told HT: “There was a verbal consent between both parties to vacate the place in December this year. Land lady, along with her IPS son-in-law, was pressurising us to vacate the place then and there. Suddenly, on Friday, her goons entered the building, threw our stuff out. I publicly apologised for my behaviour at the police station,” he added. However, the police have registered cross cases on the complaints of both parties and investigating the matter.

APARNESH GOSWAMI