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Indian IAS officer threatens Dr Harshinder Kaur
WSN Network

SWITZERLAND: In a blatant threat for merely raising a significant issue of interest to the Punjabi and Sikh community, a senior civil service official of Punjab threatened an outspoken Punjabi woman after she raised the matter of mis-spent money by the government of India.

P Srivastava, a senior IAS officer who was representing the Indian delegation at the United Nations' organised international conference in Switzerland, took umbrage when Dr Harshinder Kaur, a specialist in childcare working with Patiala's Rajindra Hospital, said the money given as grant to the Indian government was not being spent properly for the education of girl child and it was the UN looked into the way the funds are utilised.

It was a perfectly valid point and has been made many times by other human rights activists and civil society people but in an effort to prove the loyalty, the IAS officer started threatening Dr Harshinder Kaur and said she had no business to critixe India at a global forum.

Dr Kaur was even told that the troubles will start as soon as she will land back in India. She has confirmed the exchange in interviews with some reporters.

17 June  2009
 

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