The Bihar government has suspended a police officer for allegedly sexually harassing a lady. SI

By – Shrishti Mehra

Faiz Ahmed Khan, a sub-divisional police officer, was suspended and removed with the instruction to report to the office of the Inspector General throughout his suspension period.

According to a statement issued by the state home department, the Bihar government dismissed a deputy superintendent of police (DySP) rank officer on Monday for allegedly sexually harassing a subordinate women police officer at work.

According to Superintendent of Police (SP) Lalit Mohan Sharma, Faiz Ahmed Khan, who was assigned to the Mohania sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) post in the Kaimur district, was suspended and removed, with the instruction to report to the Inspector General (IG) Police, Central Zone, Patna, during the suspension time.

After Khan was found guilty of sexual harassment of a female officer, the deputy inspector general (DIG) police, Shahabad Range, Navin Chandra Jha, suggested to the police headquarters that he be suspended and transferred.

During an investigation conducted by an internal complaints committee (ICC) created by the SP, the officer was found guilty of sexually harassing the female officer.

In her complaint to the SP, the female SI said that Khan used to send obscene messages on her phone and tried to gain sexual favor by seducing her into becoming a station house officer (SHO). The officer allegedly continued the harassing even after the female SI was relocated out of his authority.

After the officer continued to harass her, the lady SI alerted Kaimur SP and requested protection. The SP referred the case to the ICC, which was formed to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.

Earlier in the first week of September, Bhabua police inspector Raj Kumar Singh was suspended by the DIG after sexual harassment allegations leveled against him by a subordinate female policeman were proven accurate during an ICC investigation.