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FIR against sabir khan for attempted molestation
Allegations politically motivated: Minister
Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Feb 6: Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered a case against Health Minister of the State Shabir Khan for alleged attempt to molest a lady doctor who is wife of a separatist leader.
The Minister is likely to face arrest as the sections under which he was booked are non-bailable offenses.
Police have registered a case (FIR 10/2014) in Police Station Shaheed Gunj in Srinagar under Sections 509 and 354 RPC against Health Minister Shabir Ahmad Khan.
The Sec 354 RPC is assault or criminal force on a woman with the intention to outrage her modesty and Section 509 RPC is word, gesture or act intended to outrage the modesty of a woman.
Khan was in Srinagar’s Winter Secretariat last month and the lady doctor who heads a medical block in the Department of Health in South Kashmir in her complaint has alleged that the Minister called her to his chamber on January 28.
The complaint says that Khan allegedly tried to make advances towards the doctor to molest her when she visited his office. The complaint says that she was called by Minister’s aide to visit the Secretariat office.
The complaint says that on reaching the office, the doctor was asked to meet the Minister. “She was then asked to make kahwa”, complaints reads.
In the compliant, the doctor has said that she felt uncomfortable and quickly left the room after the Minister allegedly tried to molest her.
The Minister termed the allegations of the doctor as baseless and politically motivated. “It is an attempt to tarnish my political image. This allegation won’t be proved”, he added.
“I don’t know any such lady doctor and neither have I called any person to my chamber during my meetings at Srinagar. Some doctors and Chief Medical Officers met me and I have not called anyone separately. I am also trying to ascertain the facts”, Khan said.
Khan is Congress Member Legislative Assembly from Rajouri and is currently in his constituency.
Sources said that the lady doctor had gone to police to lodge complaint against the Minister but acting against the Supreme Court Guidelines, Police refused to lodge the FIR.
The lady doctor has then approached Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar who has directed the Police to lodge FIR against the Minister.
Source: http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/fir-against-shabir-khan-for-attempted-molestation/
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