Chhattisgarh Government on Saturday suspended a woman assistant jail superintendent after she did not respond to a show cause notice served to her nor did she offer any explanation during preliminary enquiry conducted against her for her Facebook post on alleged police torture of minor girls, said a senior jail official.
Varsha Dongre, the deputy jail superintendent at Raipur central jail, had also uploaded an enraging post about recent killings of CRPF personnel in Sukma district, said KK Gupta, DIG, Jail.
As per Gupta, Varsha is a white collared Maoist who is part of urban network of the insurgents and she was constantly in touch with rebels.
As per reports, her Facebook account was also being operated by few civil rights activists who have been under the scanner for their suspicious activities, DIG Gupta said, adding that few of them have been following her posts, reposting, liking and commenting too.
Deputy jail superintendent Varsha Dongre was suspended by Chhattisgarh government for her indiscipline and objectionable posts on Facebook which is violation of jail manual under Section 207 and code of conduct of civil services.
Referring to recent killings of CRPF personnel in Sukma, Varsha in her Facebook post allegedly said, Naxalism will never end because government is trying to impose capitalist system in Bastar forcing tribals to push out of their native land, DIG (Jail) Gupta informed.
levelling serious allegations, Varsha who was also posted in Bastar for four years said that she had witnessed police excesses against minor tribal girls who were tortured at police stations.