Congress` young people wing leader is in sparkling hassle over a harassment criticism, because the Assam Crime Investigation Department (CID) has summoned him to its headquarters for exam withinside the northeastern country today. Notice turned into served to him on April 20.
The specialized police unit’s movement is primarily based totally at the National Commission for Women’s letter to the Assam police, asking them to provoke movement in opposition to Indian Youth Congress country wide president Srinivas BV, who has been accused of harassment and discrimination with the aid of using a former celebration colleague.
The Assam Police additionally visited Karnataka on Sunday to serve a observe to Mr Srinivas, who the police could not trace, directing him to seem earlier than the Dispur Police Station in Guwahati at eleven am on May 2. Police had been seeking out Srinivas BV at his uncle’s house in Bengaluru, in which he used to live every time he turned into withinside the city, as he had vacated his everlasting house years ago.
Congress on Saturday suspended its former Assam Pradesh Youth Congress leader who made the allegations in opposition to Mr Srinivas. She has been expelled for 6 years for “anti-celebration” activities.
The Assam unit of the grand antique celebration reportedly located the girl’s allegations “baseless and politically motivated”, and took disciplinary movement in opposition to her for tarnishing the photograph of the celebration and its leaders.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and senior Congress chief Randeep Singh Surjewala traded barbs the day prior to this over the purpose at the back of police movement in opposition to Mr Srinivas.
The girl had filed a criticism in opposition to Mr Srinivas on the Dispur police station on Wednesday and turned into summoned with the aid of using the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police on Thursday. She accused the Congress chief of being “sexist and chauvinistic”. She claimed that Mr Srinivas and some other IYC chief, Vardhan Yadav, had discriminated in opposition to her primarily based totally on her gender and had used foul language to threaten her.
Mr Srinivas, who’s presently campaigning for the Congress in Karnataka in advance of the meeting elections subsequent month, has denied the allegations and filed a defamation healthy in opposition to the complainant for using “unparliamentary and defamatory” phrases in opposition to him.
