Ex-DU employee, who set herself on fire, estranged from husband’s kin
9 Oct 2013 12:08 AM IST
‘Lot more was cooking in the mind of Pavitra Bharadwaj (36), who succumbed to her burn injuries on Monday morning, besides the strong allegations made by her against a DU college principal,’ a source in Delhi police said.
On 30 September, Pavitra doused herself with kerosene outside Delhi Secretariat to demonstrate the inordinate delay in getting justice for her pending case against GK Arora, the principal of Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, for repeatedly sexually harassing her two years ago.
A neighbour of Pavitra in Maujpur area said, ‘She was not staying with her husband for the past four years. She was in a live-in relation with a man who was two years younger than her. The duo lived at a rented accommodation.’
Sources told Millennium Post that in early 2006, Pavitra had registered two separate criminal cases against her husband and father-in-law, who were both working under Delhi police.
In the first incident, she had reportedly lodged a case against her father-in-law alleging that he used to harass her for working as a lecturer. He was further booked under the section 354 (criminally force a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of IPC. He was arrested but later released on bail.
Few months later, Pavrita had made a call to police control room in April 2006 informing that she was going through domestic violence. When cops visited her residence along with female officers, they detained Devender Sharma, head constable at Delhi police Communication department. On the same day, a compromise was made between Pavitra and her husband following the intervention by an NGO. Sharma was allowed to go free after a police warning.
Sources in Ambedkar college, requesting anonymity, told Millennium Post that Pavitra also had a tainted past. She was booked for blackmailing and threatening her colleague in DU. The matter came to light when the apex committee was examining the allegations made by Pavitra on the principal of the college. As a result, she was terminated from teaching service in 2011.
On 30 September, Pavitra doused herself with kerosene outside Delhi Secretariat to demonstrate the inordinate delay in getting justice for her pending case against GK Arora, the principal of Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, for repeatedly sexually harassing her two years ago.
A neighbour of Pavitra in Maujpur area said, ‘She was not staying with her husband for the past four years. She was in a live-in relation with a man who was two years younger than her. The duo lived at a rented accommodation.’
Sources told Millennium Post that in early 2006, Pavitra had registered two separate criminal cases against her husband and father-in-law, who were both working under Delhi police.
In the first incident, she had reportedly lodged a case against her father-in-law alleging that he used to harass her for working as a lecturer. He was further booked under the section 354 (criminally force a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of IPC. He was arrested but later released on bail.
Few months later, Pavrita had made a call to police control room in April 2006 informing that she was going through domestic violence. When cops visited her residence along with female officers, they detained Devender Sharma, head constable at Delhi police Communication department. On the same day, a compromise was made between Pavitra and her husband following the intervention by an NGO. Sharma was allowed to go free after a police warning.
Sources in Ambedkar college, requesting anonymity, told Millennium Post that Pavitra also had a tainted past. She was booked for blackmailing and threatening her colleague in DU. The matter came to light when the apex committee was examining the allegations made by Pavitra on the principal of the college. As a result, she was terminated from teaching service in 2011.
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