FCI general manager held for rape of subordinate

A forty five year-old general manager of Food Corporation of India (FCI), currently posted at Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested by the city police on Tuesday for allegedly raping and blackmailing his subordinate in May while he was posted in Jaipur.
Manmeet Singh Bhullar was posted as AGM in Jaipur regional office of the FCI. On May 23 he asked one of his junior staffers to come to a hotel in Lal Kothi on pretext of discussing official work.“He spiked her tea and raped her in the hotel room. Bhullar also recorded the video of the act to blackmail her,” said Additional DCP (ADCP) Mool Singh Rana.
On May 29 , when the complainant had gone to New Delhi for official work, the Bhullar also reached the national capital and called her to his hotel room where he raped her.
On June 1, the complainant shared her ordeal with her husband and family members and registered an FIR at the Bajaj Nagar police station. But the police station did not act on the complaint and stated the investigation as “inconclusive.” The investigation was shifted from Bajaj Nagar police station and handed over to ADCP Mool Singh Rana posted at the Commissionerate.
Rana told TOI that when the accused learnt that an FIR was filed against him at Bajaj Nagar police station, he quickly got himself transferred from Jaipur to Jammu and Kashmir on June.
A native of Bathinda in Punjab, Bhullar lived in Jaipur from 2016 toll 2018. Rana said that CCTV footage of the hotel and the video clipping has been seized by the police for investigation. “We had sent him a summon to appear before the police for the investigation, he landed in Jaipur on Tuesday where we interrogated him. Later he was put under arrest,” Rana told TOI.
The initial investigation indicates that the accused had first called the complainant to discuss matter pertaining to the recruitment of security guards.
While the Bajaj Nagar police station had found the investigation inconclusive and thus did not take any action. ADCP Mool Singh Rana, on the other hand, said that all evidence have been recovered which points to Bhullar’s involvement