An IAS officer who was suspended on the charge of allegedly attempting to molest a girl on a moving train near lucknow in October last has been reinstated by the Uttar Pradesh Government after his acquittal from court which was followed after the victim refused to appear in the court and both parties reached to a compromise.
Shashi Bhushan lal Shusheel, 2001 batch IAS officer was posted as special secretary in Irrigation Department. He was special secretary in Technical Education Department when the incident took place. He was suspended when a complaint was filed against him alleging that he attempted to rape a girl, who along with her mother was travelling in lucknow mail from Delhi to lucknow in October last. PNS
The girl’s mother lodged the complaint after getting down at lucknow, alleging that the IAS officer had boarded the same coach from Ghaziabad and attempted rape the girl when her mother had gone to toilet. The IAS officer had denied the allegations and said he only had an argument with the two women.
Meanwhile, the State Government also transferred two other IAS officers on Sunday. The special secretary public enterprise bureau Murlidhar Dubey and special secretary Panchyati Raj Dinesh Kumar Singh have been shifted to Food and civil supplies department and Sugar industries and cane development departments respectively in the same capacities.