Udupi, Aug 17: Nearly two months after she resigned from service citing allegations of “harassment” by a Minister in the Karnataka government, the former Deputy Superintendent of Police Anupama Shenoy has released audio tapes of phone conversations she allegedly had with the Minister and her superiors to a news channel in New Delhi.
In the first incident, the minister calls Anupama when she was on duty. Anupama claims that she was on call for nearly 30 seconds and nobody spoke to her. In the meantime, she got a call from another officer who tells her that that the district minister wanted to discuss one particular robbery case. The minister calls her back and asks her if she did not have the patience to hold the call for one minute. Anupama replies that she got a call from the SP. The minister in turn says, "Can't you tell the SP that it was the district minister's call?" Anupama requests him be respectful.
In her interview with the channel, she claims that she was right and there was nothing wrong in asking someone to respect a woman. Within few minutes, Anupama gets a call from the control room stating that she must call the IGP. The IGP tells her, "Please call the district minister. He is calling me again and again. You tell him that you were in a hurry and brief him about the case....You do not lose your cool. Even if he shouts, you listen to him and reply in a dignified manner. That is how we handle these people, we should never lose our cool and calm. Talk to him and get back to me."
Anupama said she did not feel the need to call back the minister or report back to the IGP. "I felt I was right. Next day, I get a call from DGP office. The DGP calls a DySP and says that I will be transferred."
A transcript of the conversation, purportedly with the DGP, follows:
DGP: Which batch officer are you?
Anupama: 2012.
DGP: This is your first division, how long have you been here?
Anupama: One year and four months.
DGP: Where does your family stay?
Anupama: I am unmarried, my parents are in Udupi.
DGP: Do you have any problem going anywhere?
Anupama: No, sir.
DGP: Let me tell you where we have vacancies. Options are very less. Athani sub division is vacant, Aland is vacant, Udupi is khali, but you can't go to Udupi, because you are from Udupi. Vijaypura subdivision and IG officer Ballari and Mangaluru has a vacancy. I don't want you to go for non-executive because you are young and just completed one. You should work for Indi. That fellow is retiring by July 31.
Anupama: Is this a punishment transfer?
DGP: You are getting a reward transfer, not punishment transfer. That's why we are asking you to choose. If it was punishment, I would not have asked you.
Anupama: Is there any pressure, sir?
DGP: You forget all that. You have to tell me: Athani, Aland and Indi. All in north Karnataka. Otherwise, CID is there, IG officer Bellari or Mangaluru is there. Can you call me after 10 minutes?
Next day, Anupama gets another call from the senior most police officer asking if she has got the letter. The officer asks her, "Suppose you are sent to Indi, will you go?" Anupama agrees. "Then wait for some time, I will get a clearance and try to do it," the officer says.
The channel has withheld the officer's name and does not vouch for the authenticity of the tapes.
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