A day after a woman junior coach lodged a police complaint against Haryana Sports Minister Sandeep Singh for sexual harassment, Chandigarh police booked him for stalking, illegal confinement, sexual harassment and criminal intimidation, officers said.
The woman coach filed a police complaint against the minister at the Chandigarh police headquarters. She submitted the complaint to the Superintendent of Police (City) Shruti Arora. Later, the complainant met with SP Arora and Senior Superintendent of Police (UT) Manisha Chaudhary. According to reports, the woman spoke with the two officers for at least an hour.
After lodging the complaint, the woman coach said, “I've been promised a fair investigation. I also brought up the subject of my safety. On my social media sites, I've been getting threatening messages. I've stopped returning phone calls out of dread. Between February and November, the minister bothered me in his office and elsewhere. He even once requested that I see him in Sector 7. He spoke with me primarily on social media. At his Chandigarh home, he made unwanted physical contact with me. I've told the Chandigarh police what happened in order.”
Singh sent her texts in "disappearing mode," thus the complainant, who appeared at the police headquarters alone, said she had no trace of those exchanges. She made the accusations for the first time at a press conference held in Chandigarh at the home of INLD leader Abhay Chautala.
A spokesperson for Chandigarh police said, “In the matter of complaint made by a woman coach of Haryana against the Haryana Sports Minister, an FIR under sections 354, 354A, 354B, 342, 506 of the IPC has been registered at the Sector 26 police station and is being investigated”.