Senior Haryana bureaucrat denies sexual harassment charges

<p>Rohtak (Haryana) [India], June 11 (ANI): Haryana Additional Chief Secretary Sunil Gulati on Monday denied the sexual harassment allegations levied against him by a 28-year-old woman IAS officer.</p><p>Gulati said he is ready to face a probe and is even willing to take lie-detection test.</p><p>"It's my duty to train my staff. It's up to her to be willing to learn. If going to field troubles her, then the government can transfer her. I'm ready for a probe. Even I am ready for a lie-detection test," said Gulati while addressing the media.</p><p>His comments came after the woman IAS officer wrote a post on Facebook on Sunday, giving details of the incident.</p><p>She said that the male officer called her to his office on May 22 and "threatened" her.</p><p>"He questioned me why I write on files the wrongs the department has done," she wrote.</p><p>The senior officer allegedly threatened to file a complaint and "spoil her Annual Confidential Report (ACR) if she did not stop writing adverse comments on the official files".</p><p>The senior officer summoned her on May 31 and apparently instructed his staff that no other person should enter the room.</p><p>"He asked me to tell what type of work I wanted to do, whether I want departmental work or time-pass work. And then he asked me to stop writing adverse comments on the files. His behaviour seemed immoral," she said.</p><p>On June 6, the senior officer called her into his office again at 5 pm and asked her to stay there till 7.39 pm, the lady officer claimed.</p><p>"I was sitting on the other side of the table in front of him. He asked me to get up and come closer to his chair. When I reached the other side of the table, he pretended to teach me how to operate a computer. I rushed back to my chair... After some time, he got up. Pretending to find a paper, he came close to my chair and pushed it," she wrote.</p><p>The woman officer said she had sent an e-mail to President Ram Nath Kovind with regard to the entire incident. (ANI)</p><br/><center><em><p>This story has not been edited. It has been published as provided by ANI</p></em></center>

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