Mumbai
Mirror: Mumbai: Saturday, 02 May 2015.
A 44-year-old
rheumatologist from Nanded has written to the Chief Minister and home secretary
alleging harassment by the local police for filing an anonymous complaint
against a Class 1 officer of the state health department with the state ACB.
Dr Mahesh
Deshmukh's letter of April 17, also addressed to the state DGP and the DG
(ACB), claims an Nanded police Cybel Cell officer who identified himself as ASI
Harshal Chavan interrogated him and his wife, a government doctor, separately
for two hours on January 15.
Deshmukh said
Chavan asked them to come down to the district SP's office as there was a cyber
crime complaint against him. "During the interrogation, I repeatedly asked
Chavan to specify the nature of the complaint against me, but he didn't do so.
Instead, he asked me if I had filed a complaint on the ACB website against a
senior state government officer during my stay in a Nagpur hotel in August last
year," he said.
He said
Chavan knew the name of the Nagpur hotel and his room number as well. "I
was shocked to find that despite filing an anonymous complaint, I was being
interrogated by the police," Deshmukh said.
He added,
"Chavan kept telling me that whatever I did in the hotel room was illegal
and that he had CCTV footage of my activities while I was in the hotel room. He
also alleged that I had made a false complaint against a senior officer while
posing as someone else, due to which some innocent officers had been
harassed."
Deshmukh said
Chavan told him he all digital records of the hotel's Wi-Fi and router and also
showed him a diagram he claimed was evidence. His wife was told by cops during
interrogation that they would be booked under the Official Secrets Act and she
would lose her job. He also asked him to give in writing the complaint they had
made on the ACB website.
"Chavan
kept asking me the same things and said he would dictate the statement. He also
kept asking me to retract the online complaint," he said.
He then
consulted a lawyer and filed an RTI application seeking details of the
complaint filed against him.
The same day,
a caller identifying himself as an officer from the cyber cell of IGP's office
in Aurangabad asked him to be present for questioning on the next day. Deshmukh
did not go to Aurangabad and filed a complaint with the National Human Rights
Commission.
He was
summoned twice after that by Chavan, but he did not meet him.
"We had
called Deshmukh as we had received a complaint application that he had
impersonated and posted a fake complaint on ACB portal. The complainant hasn't
filed a FIR against him," Chavan told Mirror. DG (ACB) Praveen Dikshit
said he will look into the matter.
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