Chandigarh, June 10: A 28-year-old Indian Administrative Service officer working in a Haryana government department has accused a senior officer of sexually harassing her for writing “adverse comments on official files”.
The woman wrote on Facebook that her senior called her to his office May 31, and when she reached there the senior officer told the office staff not to let anybody else enter his office. “He questioned me why I write on files the wrongs the department has done,” she wrote on Facebook. The senior officer denied the allegations. He said the IAS officer was only asked “not to find faults with the files which have got all necessary clearances from other officials”. The woman alleged the senior officer threatened to “spoil the annual confidential report (ACR)” if she did not stop writing negative comments on the official files. “He asked me to tell what type of work I wanted to do, whether I want departmental work or time-pass work.And then he asked me to stop writing adverse comments on the files,” she wrote on Facebook.
“He told me that like a new bride, she has to be explained everything, and he was explaining to me in the same manner,” she wrote. On June 6, the senior officer again called her to his office at 5 pm and asked her to stay there till after 7 pm, she alleged. Another senior officer, a woman, “has given me verbal orders that I do not enter any complaint in writing”, she alleged, adding her police security had been withdrawn after which she had sent an email to the office of the President, seeking action.
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