Punjab govt will take action against IAS officer accused of sexual harassment: Chief Secy

“The lady officer had come to me with a delegation of PCS officers and complained to me against her senior colleague. I heard her out. We are taking action in the case,” the chief secretary added.

A functionary of the government said, “We will be transferring him (the IAS officer) out. We have also assigned a senior official to counsel him. The officers have to be told that being part of a premier service, they will have to behave with their colleagues.”

The functionary added that the issue would be sorted out to the satisfaction of the complainant.

The IAS officer is a director of a department and the complainant is his subordinate in the same department.

Sources said the PCS officer had told the chief secretary that she had been a victim of her senior’s “inappropriate behaviour” more than once and had been refusing to respond to his “advances”.