BENGALURU: A woman has lodged a complaint with the City Police Commissioner alleging that Assistant Commissioner of Police Ravi Prasad of Yeshwantpur sub-division, misbehaved with her. The ACP has denied the allegations, claiming that she has done this to put pressure on police to take her side in a dispute.
On Saturday, the woman, who works in a private firm, approached Commissioner Suneel Kumar T and filed a complaint against Ravi Prasad. In a four-page complaint, she states she had gone to the ACP to enquire about the progress in investigation of a complaint she had filed earlier. The earlier complaint alleged she was molested and assaulted by two men.
She claimed that while taking her statement, the ACP asked her to reveal her private parts on the pretext of investigation. When she objected to this, Soladevanahalli police station Inspector Venkatesh Gowda, who was present, shouted at her, “He is a senior officer, you have to follow his instructions.”
The woman had initially approached DCP (North) Chetan Singh Rathore to complain against Prasad, but was asked to complain to the Commissioner.
Prasad denied all the allegations. “When she came to the station to file her complaint, I asked her what had happened, that is all. Whatever else she claims is untrue. As we did not take any action against the person she accused, she is doing this to put pressure on us,” he said. He added that a dispute has been brewing between two groups — a trust formed by Hanumantharayappa and another trust, which the woman is a part of. He claimed she lodged the complaint of molestation against Hanumantharayappa on November 17.
“I carried out the enquiry in front of two policewomen at Soladevanahalli Police Station and not in my office. I had only asked her what is relevant and about the issue,” he added.
The woman, a resident of Hesaraghatta, had filed a complaint earlier at Soladevanahalli police station that she was molested and assaulted by two persons two months ago. She alleged that they did this as revenge after she was elected as office-bearer on their expense in a trust. She alleged that even after her complaint, the investigation did not proceed for a long time, which was why she approached Inspector Gowda, who directed her to the ACP. The complaint states the ACP misbehaved with her on November 18.