Delhi Chief Secretary Involved In 'Scam' Evidence Theft, Claims Uttarakhand NGO. FIR Registered

On March 2, the court acknowledged the Pleasant Valley Foundation's complaint against the officials and directed the revenue police to file a case against them and investigate the accusations.

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An FIR has been filed against Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar and his subordinate YVVJ Rajasekhar on the instructions of a court in Uttarakhand's Almora town, news agency PTI reported. On March 2, the court acknowledged the Pleasant Valley Foundation's complaint against the officials and directed the revenue police to file a case against them and investigate the accusations.

Pleasant Valley Foundation filed a complaint alleging that Kumar, the Delhi chief secretary, and Rajasekhar, a subordinate, dispatched four men to an NGO-run school in Dadakada village on February 14. The men allegedly vandalised the NGO joint secretary's office chamber and stole files, data, documents, and pen drives containing proof of Kumar and Rajasekhar's participation in "scams," PTI reported. 

The complaint further said that authorities threatened to frame Pleasant Valley Foundation if allegations of "corruption" made against them with the Vigilance Department and other forums were not dropped. 

They also attempted to force the complainant to sign typewritten documents that they had brought with them, he claimed.

Furthermore, an attempt was made to coerce the complainant into signing typewritten documents, and when resistance was met, Rs 63,000 in cash was confiscated.

According to Almora's District Magistrate Vinit Tomar, the revenue police sub-inspector in Govindpur filed the complaint against the officials on the directives of Almora's Chief Judicial Magistrate. “A case was registered by the revenue police sub-inspector of Govindpur on the orders of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM),” Vinit Tomar stated. 

The FIR was filed against them under sections 392 (robbery), 447 (criminal trespass), 120b (criminal conspiracy), 504 (intentional insult with intent to incite breach of peace), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC and the SC/ST Act, PTI reported.