Saturday, 13 APRIL 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
An FIR has been registered against Delhi chief secretary Naresh Kumar and special secretary of the Service department in Delhi government YVVJ Rajasekhar on the orders of a court in Almora. The FIR was registered following the complaint of an NGO named the Pleasant Valley Foundation, the officials said. They informed that the NGO stated in its complaint that Kumar and Rajasekhar allegedly sent four men to a school run by the NGO in Dadakada village on February 14. The complainant claimed that the men vandalised their office and took away files, pen drives and other documents that reportedly contained evidence of their involvement in scams. The NGO approached the court seeking action against the culprits. The accused also allegedly threatened to frame the NGO’s officials if they did not withdraw corruption complaints filed by the NGO against them with the Vigilance department and other agencies. The complainant claimed that the men had even tried to force them to sign typewritten documents, which they had brought with them. When the NGO representative resisted, the assailants took away Rs 63,000 in cash kept in a drawer, the officials informed. The officials said that the court admitted the NGO’s complaint against the said officials on March 2 and asked the revenue police to register a case against them and investigate the allegations. The police registered the FIR under sections 392 (robbery), 447 (criminal trespass), 120b (criminal conspiracy), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 criminal intimidation) of the IPC and the SC/ST Act. The revenue police registered the case against the officials on the orders of Almora’s Chief Judicial Magistrate. When this correspondent asked Almora’s district magistrate Vinit Tomar about the matter and when exactly the FIR was registered, he refused to share any details regarding the matter.
