New Delhi, May 5
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) on Friday issued a notice to the Punjab authorities and requested it to submit a report on the allegations of sexual misconduct against its minister Lal Chand Kataruchak.
The fee additionally requested the Punjab chief secretary and the director basic of police to present safety to the sufferer.
In a video message and a letter to the NCSC, the sufferer, a member of the scheduled castes group, additionally accused the minister of threatening him and his household.
“I’m now on the run and submitting the grievance in Delhi because the minister is threatening to hurt me or my household. I request the NCSC to take motion against the minister over the sexual misconduct and supply me safety,” the sufferer stated in his letter to the panel.
Kataruchak had allegedly approached the sufferer “by sending a good friend request on Facebook in 2013-14 and when he accepted it, Kataruchak allegedly began making advances”, the fee stated quoting from the letter.
“Since he was an influential particular person, he had promised me a authorities job due to which I remained mum. I used to be too younger at the moment to perceive something. But, his sexual excesses continued until 2021. However, he met me for the final time on Diwali in 2021 and he neither offered me with a job nor he met me after that,” the sufferer stated.
Recently, a video on the matter was handed over to Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit by Congress chief Sukhpal Singh Khaira.
The NCSC requested the chief secretary and the director basic of police to “examine the matter and to submit the motion taken report, instantly, by way of submit or e-mail, primarily based on information and knowledge on the motion taken on the allegation/matter”.
The fee additionally requested the officers to present safety to the sufferer.
The NCSC cautioned the officers that if the motion taken report just isn’t acquired, then the fee would possibly train the powers of the civil court docket conferred on it below Article 338 of the Constitution of India and situation a summon for private look earlier than the fee in Delhi.
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