Senior IPS officer Ravindranath resigns alleging harassment
Bengaluru: A senior Indian Police Service officer has resigned from service accusing 'a few individuals' of harassing him indirectly.
Dr. P Ravindranath, who is serving as Additional Director General of Police in the Forest Cell, tendered his resignation to the Chief Secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar through the Director-General of Police Praveen Sood on October 28.
The officer was booked on charges of molestation six years ago, which he said was quashed by the High Court.
Confirming that he had resigned, Ravindranath said: "Yesterday some promotions happened. I should have been promoted as a number-two. Number-one is Amar Kumar Pandey.
I must have been promoted. Instead of me, Suneel Kumar has been promoted," Ravindranath told PTI.
In his resignation letter, Ravindranath stated that he had served the people of Karnataka with utmost devotion but in the last four years he faced "problems created by a few individuals."
"But a few individuals prevented justice for me. Therefore, having undergone the agony of the indirect harassment, I submit my resignation herewith to lead a peaceful life," Ravindranath said.
He asked the Chief Secretary to accept his resignation.
The 1989 batch IPS officer from Andhra Pradesh had landed in a controversy six years ago when he was accused of allegedly clicking pictures of a woman at a cafe in Bengaluru.
The woman in her complaint to the police had stated that when she and her cousin were at the cafe they saw a man staring at them and clicking pictures.
The next day after the incident, a case of molestation was registered against him under section 354 of the IPC, according to Ravindranath.
He added that a charge sheet in that connection was filed in the court, which was quashed by the High Court.
Further, the CAT not only quashed the Departmental Inquiry initiated against him but also recommended that the matter should be probed by the National Commission for Scheduled Caste four years ago.
However, the government obtained a stay against the order, Ravindranath said.
According to him, the Supreme Court in its order on October 15 stated that any stay granted by any court lapses automatically after six months.
"The stay on the CAT order against which the government had gone to high court automatically lapsed," he said.
Attempts to reach the DGP proved futile.
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UP Cong chief Ajay Rai hospitalised after fainting, stable
Lucknow (PTI): Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai was hospitalised here after he fell unconscious due to low sodium levels, party leaders said on Saturday.
They said he was admitted to Medanta Hospital on Friday evening and is stable.
"Ajay Rai was admitted to Medanta Hospital in Lucknow at around 6 pm on Friday after he fell unconscious as his sodium levels had dropped. He fell unconscious at his residence in Lucknow. For the entire day, he was engaged in party programmes and had also gone to the airport," Uttar Pradesh Congress spokesperson Anshu Awasthi told PTI.
Congress in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Avinash Pande told PTI, "Now, he (Ajay Rai) is stable and I am also reaching Lucknow."
Medanta Hospital Director Dr Rakesh Kapoor told PTI that Rai collapsed at his home on Friday evening and was subsequently admitted to the hospital's emergency ward.
Medical examinations revealed that Rai was suffering from a sodium deficiency and elevated blood pressure. Doctors administered immediate treatment and he is doing significantly better now, Kapoor said.
A team of doctors is monitoring his health. Rai is conversing with others and his condition is stable, he added.
In a post on X late Friday night, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished Rai a speedy recovery.
Rai hails from Varanasi and had contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections against Modi from the parliamentary constituency. The Congress appointed him as the Uttar Pradesh unit chief in 2023.
