Bengaluru: PI faces probe over sexual harassment allegation

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City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh has ordered a preliminary enquiry against a constabulary inspector pursuing allegations of intersexual harassment by a pistillate rowdy sheeter.

The complainant approached the commissioner’s bureau connected Wednesday and submitted a petition seeking enactment against Papanna, a constabulary inspector attached to Konanakunte constabulary station.

According to officials, the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Jayanagar subdivision, has been tasked with conducting the preliminary inquiry. “Based connected the petition, a preliminary enquiry has been ordered. Further action, if necessary, volition beryllium taken based connected the report,” constabulary said.

According to the complainant, the inspector subjected her to repeated harassment, including inappropriate messages and verbal advances. She claimed that helium utilized endearing presumption and allegedly made sexually suggestive remarks, asking her to conscionable him successful private. She further claimed that contempt initially ignoring the behaviour, she aboriginal approached his elder officers, but nary enactment was taken.

Audio clips and substance messages, purportedly of conversations betwixt the inspector and the complainant, person since surfaced connected societal media, adding to the controversy.

Police sources confirmed that Papanna had earlier faced a akin allegation during his tenure arsenic an inspector successful Basavanagudi, pursuing which helium faced action.

This improvement comes adjacent connected the heels of a akin incidental involving a Mudbidri constabulary inspector, which is presently nether a CID probe implicit alleged misconduct with a women.

Published - March 25, 2026 06:45 p.m. IST

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