Bhubaneswar: Angul DIG Brijesh Rai has been transferred to Cuttack Police Headquarters. According to reports, the development is linked to the suicide attempt by a woman Home Guard, who had levelled allegations of harassment by the DIG’s wife.
In a disturbing development, the Odisha home guard personnel made an attempt on her life after being unable to stand the claimed harassment by the DIG’s wife.
The female home guard in this has lost both of her legs. She is in a serious condition after being sent to a private hospital in Cuttack. According to reports, this occurrence happened on August 4.
A police investigation has been started. The women’s home guard gave the Home Guard DG a written notice of this on August 13.
The complaint stated that she was engaged in the DIG’s domestic work for almost seven months. She further said that she did all the household work of DIG. The DIG’s wife used to torture her if there was a slight mistake in any work.
She was threatening her on a regular basis to take away her job, the complaint further stated, said reports. She tried to commit suicide by lying on the train line, survived, but lost both her legs forever.
When contacted, DIG Brijesh Kumar Rai refuted the allegations as baseless and motivated saying, “Yes, Souridri was engaged by me and she was mentally disturbed over some personal issue over a period of time. I had suggested she reports her problems to the RI Homeguard so that she could be given some other duty.”
DIG Rai went on to add, “In the meanwhile, she received news of the death of her sister’s son and left our house to attend the boy’s last rites. While returning, she met with an accident where she lost both her legs.”
“All the news about my wife torturing her is baseless and motivated. We don’t know who is behind this,” DIG Rai signed off.
