Saharanpur woman officer backs Bareilly DM in Facebook posts
MEERUT: A woman officer in Saharanpur has taken to Facebook, purportedly in support of Bareilly district magistrate Raghvendra Vikram Singh, who recently created a controversy with his Facebook post, allegedly on the Kasganj violence.
In her Facebook posts (now deleted) on January 28 and 30, deputy director (statistics) in Saharanpur Rashme Varun said: “See how one had to give explanation for speaking the truth and the person who was right had to apologise.”
Expressing dismay over the Kasganj incident, she had said in the post, “Neither slogans of Pakistan zindabad were shouted nor the so-called Tiranga Yatra was stopped. It was the game of ‘WhatsApp University’.”
Later, the officer removed the post and her phone was also found to be switched off.
When Saharanpur district magistrate PK Pandey was contacted, he refused to comment on the posts, saying that the officer was under divisional commissioner Deepak Aggarwal. Repeated attempts to contact the divisional commissioner failed.
“It (Kasganj incident) was nothing new. A similar rally was taken out in Saharanpur Sadar Doodhli, in which Ambedkar was missing or say he dissolved in saffron colour,” she had written in a post. “A similar incident took place in Kasganj. The boy (Chandan) was not killed by the members of other community,” her another post had read.
The Bareilly district magistrate, in his now deleted Facebook post, had purportedly pointed fingers at right wing groups for fanning tension by shouting provocative slogans in predominantly Muslim areas.
“These days, a strange trend of visiting Muslim-dominated localities and shouting anti-Pakistani slogans has started. Are they Pakistanis? The same thing happened in Bareilly. Why don’t we raise anti-China slogans when the fact is that China is a bigger enemy than Pakistan?” Singh had asked in his post.