Maharashtra forest officer sexually harassed colleague repeatedly, threatened her with SC/ST act. The girl has dedicated suicide

The state of Maharashtra has been rocked with the suicide of its ‘Lady Singham’, Range Forest Officer Dipali Chavan-Mohite who after being repeatedly sexually harassed by a senior forest officer named Vinod Shivkumar, who in flip, threatened to border her beneath the SC/ST Act, took the intense step.28-year-old feminine Range Forest Officer posted within the Melghat Tiger Reserve (MRT) in Amravati, Maharashtra,  Dipali Chavan-Mohite shot herself to loss of life at her official quarters.  A purported suicide word that she left behind revealed that she allegedly confronted sexual harassment and torture by the hands of an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer, Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF) Vinod Shivkumar.The allegations levelled by Dipali within the purported suicide word are certainly severe together with her household earlier on Friday, refusing to simply accept her physique for conducting the final rites until the Amravati Police nabbed the accused, Vinod Shivkumar named in her suicide word.Dipali, in her four-page suicide word, appealed to the authorities to behave towards Shivkumar in order that no person else ought to undergo her ordeal.  Reportedly, IFS Shivkumar has been nabbed on the Nagpur railway station whereas he was ready to onboard a practice that might have taken him to Bengaluru.According to Mumbai Mirror, Dipali alleged that for the previous few months, the IFS officer used his place, harassed her sexually and inflicted psychological trauma on her constantly. The letter additional states that regardless of repeatedly bringing Shivkumar’s behaviour to the discover of his senior, MTR Field Director, M.S. Reddy (IFS), he selected to reportedly ignore Dipali’s pleas and ostensibly sided with the accused DCF.Alarmingly, Dipali had additionally highlighted Shivkumar’s alcoholism, utilizing abusive or foul language at her in private and non-private, making advances and dropping hints to get bodily, however to little avail.An instance of Shivkumar’s atrocity on Dipali may be seen from the incident in February 2020, when a pregnant Dipali was made to accompany Shivkumar on a gruelling three-day forest patrol, strolling or driving a whole lot of kilometres ignoring her maternal situation. Unfortunately, after coming back from the task, she suffered a miscarriage and free-fell right into a deep despair earlier than her mom nursed Dipali again to normalcy.The incident not solely speaks of the horrors that the girl officer confronted but in addition how the SC / ST Act is being misused by sure senior officers to devastate households like that of Dipali. Maharashtra has misplaced its braveheart officer, who was once dreaded by native mafias and steps should be taken to nab the accused and guarantee such an incident doesn’t happen once more.