Fake letter alleging senior cops raped women constables goes viral; police initiates inquiry

As per sources in Mumbai police, the letter was submitted to Maharashtra’s Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister, Mumbai Police Commissioner and Joint Commissioner of police (admin) in the last week of December.

The letter said that the three officers had taken them to their official residence and sexually assaulted them.

“As we are from small villages, they took advantage of us. Under the pretext of not giving us any work on duty, the two police inspectors took us to the DCP’s house, and they sexually assaulted us one after the other,” read the letter. The letter further said that the women constable drivers were also raped inside the DCP’s office.

The letter further said —”The two inspectors shot a video of the (rape) act and blackmailed us to get physically intimate with them. They would also get drunk at night and ask us to send our nude photos.” It also had signatures of eight constable drivers, which is suspected to have been forged by the impersonator.

Since the allegations against the three senior officials were serious in nature, the Mumbai police department initiated an inquiry into the matter.

Joint Commissioner of Police, S Jaykumar (admin), said, “Initially we were investigating the rape allegations. But when the eight women constable drivers were questioned for details, they denied having written any such letter.” Jaykumar said they were now looking to identify the person who sent the letter.

Since the alleged ‘fake letter’ began going viral on social media, the women constable drivers concerned have been getting calls from their parents, relatives and other police officials.

“I am getting calls one after the other since the letter has gone viral. Even I was shocked to read it initially because I had not written any such letter. My family members panicked, and my parents were distraught thinking the contents of the letter were true. They too began getting calls from relatives and friends,” said one of the women constables.

Another woman constable further said that she had not even seen the three police officials who have been accused of raping her. “It is traumatic for me. I had gone to the police station on Saturday to lodge a complaint, but they asked me to write a detailed application and to also mention the names of those I suspect wrote the letter. But I had to go to work, so I did not complain then. But I will be going back on Monday to lodge a complaint,” said the constable.

Officials said the primary inquiry indicated that the letter had been sent via speed post from Matunga.

A police inspector (one of those accused in the alleged fake letter) said, “This mischief was to defame us. We are innocent. There are people in the department who are unhappy with our work. We strongly suspect the involvement of an official from the motor vehicle department, and we will lodge a police complaint on Monday.”