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FIR filed against Delhi immigration official for harassment
New Delhi, March 31
Delhi Police on Tuesday
registered an FIR against an immigration official at the Indira Gandhi
International Airport here for verbal sexual harassment of a woman
passenger who took a flight to Hong Kong on March 18.
Deputy
Commissioner of Police M.I. Haider told IANS that a First Information
Report (FIR) has been registered against the immigration official on
charges of sexual harassment and investigation in the case in on.
The official has not been arrested yet, he added.
The
woman, whose identity was not revealed, claimed that immigration
officer Vinod Kumar harassed her by asking "several uncomfortable
personal questions" at the immigration counter before she boarded the
flight to Hong Kong, where she went to meet her husband.
She said
the officer not only harassed her during the immigration process at the
desk, but also by following her along at the escalator between the
domestic and international transfer.
After the media highlighted
the issue, the home ministry, under which the immigration department
falls, took action by suspending the immigration official March 27 and
also set up a departmental inquiry.