Bhubaneswar, Aug 22 (PTI) A woman home guard of Odisha lost both of her legs under the wheels of a running train in her attempt to die by suicide allegedly after being tortured by a DIG-rank officer’s wife, at whose residence she was working.
In a written complaint to Odisha’s home guard DG Sudhanshu Sarangi, the victim accused the senior IPS officer’s wife of verbally abusing her and beating her up if she failed to perform her job properly.
The officer, North Central Range DIG Brijesh Kumar Rai, rejected the allegations and claimed that the woman home guard, identified as Souridri Sahu of Angul district, was disturbed because of some family issues.
Editor’s take: In our country we change entire IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act in the name of getting rid of colonial baggage but we still have such hierarchal practices of placing a peon at the service of IPS officers who treat these Level D officers like slaves. A home guard is an uniformed officer of the nation. We respect those in uniform. It is utterly shameful that a woman uniform officer have been allegedly tortured by a civil servant.
