The city police on Monday registered a case against the Director and a driver of the Central Red Cross Blood Bank here for allegedly giving mental and physical torture to a woman employee of the blood bank.
“Basing on a written statement of the complainant, we have registered a case under Sections 354, 354 (A), 506 and 34 of IPC against the director and the driver,” informed Mangalabag police station Inspector Arun Kumar Swain, adding that preliminary investigations into the case were on.
Police said a former data entry operator of the blood bank, who was outsourced through a recruitment agency, has alleged in her FIR that the director was repeatedly making advances towards her involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures and the driver was playing conduit to it.
The blood bank director, however, refuted the allegations, saying the assertions made against him are “afterthoughts”. “For her poor performance and dereliction of duties, the recruitment agency was asked to replace her with a better recruit, and when the axe fell on her, she has brought these baseless allegations,” the director countered.