MP seeks NCW intervention over verbal abuse, threats to municipal officer

K. Sudhakar, MP for Chikkaballapur, has written to the National Commission for Women (NCW) seeking urgent involution implicit alleged verbal maltreatment and threats issued to Sidlaghatta City Municipal Commissioner Amrutha Gowda by Congress person Rajeev Gowda.

In his missive to the NCW chairperson, Mr. Sudhakar termed the incidental “deeply troubling” and said it reflected an alarming disregard for the dignity of women officers successful nationalist administration.

The ailment refers to a purported audio clip, wide circulated successful the district, successful which Mr. Rajeev Gowda, a KPCC State coordinator and erstwhile Sidlaghatta Assembly candidate, is heard hurling abuses astatine the Commissioner aft officials removed an allegedly unauthorised banner from a nationalist road.

Dr. Sudhakar said specified behaviour from a governmental functionary entrusted with nationalist work was unacceptable and constituted “an affront to law propriety, civilian work dignity, and sex justice”.

The MP urged the Commission to instrumentality suo motu cognisance of the lawsuit and question a elaborate study from the State authorities connected the incidental and the enactment taken. He urged the NCW to nonstop the Chief Secretary to guarantee a just probe without governmental interference.