The sitting Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) MLA Mevar Kumar Jamatia has been booked by Delhi Police in a sexual harassment case. The incident took place at Tripura Bhawan in Delhi on Tuesday night around 9.30 pm.

According to Amrutha Guguloth, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), New Delhi district, a complaint of molestation at Tripura Bhawan on Tuesday night was received.

“A police control room (PCR) call regarding the same was made at around 2:35 am by the complainant. The accused has been served with a notice under section 41-A (notice of appearance before police officer in all the cases where the arrest of a person is not required) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) CRPC,” said the DCP.

“An First Information Report (FIR) has been registered under sections  354 (uses criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby outrage her modesty) and 354(A) (sexual harassment) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC),” said the DCP. .

Meanwhile, Ranjit Das, the Joint Resident Commissioner of the Tripura Bhawan, also issued a letter, to Tripura Government and through the letter he apprised of the incident that happened on Tuesday night.

“It is to inform that a team of Delhi Police had visited Tripura Bhawan twice yesterday night and met a woman student studying in Delhi and staying in Bhawan temporarily. They recorded her statement regarding her complaint against Mebar Kr Jamatia, MLA.

 The police team visited again in the early morning and took both the woman and Mebar Kr Jamatia to the police station,” the letter by Joint Resident Commissioner stated.

After the BJP-IPFT alliance Government came to power in March 2018, IPFT General Secretary Jamatia and President Narendra Chandra Debbarma became Ministers.

In May this year, due to the internal feud, Tripura’s ruling alliance partner IPFT further, the tribal party’s supremo Narendra Chandra Debbarma had formed a disciplinary committee to assess the alleged anti-party activities of errant party leaders, including Mevar Kumar Jamatia, who was dropped from the Cabinet.

Jamatia, who served as the IPFT general secretary, was Debbarma’s protege and was included in the Biplab Deb cabinet as the forest and tribal affairs minister.

However, he fell out with his mentor after he was elected IPFT president at a central committee conference of the regional party organised on April 2-3.