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Police officer sent for mental check-up for calling judge 'Maoist'
A police officer in Jharkhand, Nirmala Chaudhary, was on Friday sent for a mental check-up after allegedly insulting a judge by branding him a Maoist leader.
- IANS
- Published: 01:05 February 23, 2008
Ranchi: A police officer in Jharkhand, Nirmala Chaudhary, was on Friday sent for a mental check-up after allegedly insulting a judge by branding him a Maoist leader.
Chaudhary, an inspector general of police in the vigilance department of Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB), and her security personnel forcefully entered the room of B. Venkateshwar Rao, a judge staying in Khukri guest house in Ranchi.
She insulted and branded Rao as a Maoist leader and threw his belongings out of the room. Rao is a judge with the Central Administrative Tribunal in Bangalore.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda has asked state police chief V.D. Ram to submit a report on the matter. Ram suspended seven policemen who helped Chaudhary throw the judge's belongings out of his room.
Chaudhary has now been sent to the Ranchi Institute of Neuro and Applied Science for a check-up.
"The woman is not mentally sound. She is behaving abnormally and that is why she was sent for a mental check-up," a police official said.
Chaudhary had three days ago sought protection as she claimed to have received threatening calls and SMSs from the underworld.
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