Karnataka IAS Officer Rohini Sindhuri Sends Notice To IPS D Roopa For Defamatory Posts

IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri on Thursday sent a notice to IPS officer D Roopa for allegedly making “false and defamatory posts” against her. Sindhuri has also warned her of criminal proceedings if she does not issue an unconditional apology in writing within 24 hours.

This comes after D Roopa, an IPS officer, accused the IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri of corruption. Roopa also shared Sindhuri’s photos on Facebook, claiming she showed them to three IAS officers in 2021 and 2022. Roopa claimed Sindhuri violated service conduct rules by sending her pictures to male IAS officers.

Following the accusations, the IAS officer via advocate CV Nagesh sent a notice demanding an unqualified apology, stating that the “serious allegation” against her touches her “character.”

The notice stated, “As things stood, while my client was performing her duties in her current position, she came across a Facebook post dated February 18, 2023, which incidentally was your Facebook page bearing the name “D Roopa Moudgil” in which you alleged that no IAS Officer would go for a settlement with an MLA or Politician regarding their official work/service and that for the first time you heard about such an incident and has cast aspersions on our client that she has done so and has alleged/questioned why our client went for a settlement with Sri. Sa Ra Mahesh, an MLA and implying that our client is trying to cover-up something with respect to either her service or corruption.”

“Presumably not having received the desired media attention to such per se false and defamatory posts, you have indulged in uploading photos of our client and projecting the same to be explicit photos by imputing a meaning that the said photos ought to be seen in “context” with a malafide intention of colouring the photos with meanings that the same are explicit by falsely alleging that they were sent to “Three lAS Ofticers”. You have made serious allegations against our client that have an impact on her character and conduct, despite knowing fully well that they are false and far from the truth,” the notice further added.

The notice further stated that the posts and allegations were made with the intention of tarnishing Sindhuri’s professional, personal, and social image. The IAS officer also sought Rs 1 crore in compensation for the same.

“You have committed a serious offence under Section 500 of the Indian penal Code by the course of your conduct in making the per-se defamatory comments/statements/allegations, knowing and having reason to believe that the said comments/statements/allegations are false and far from truth,” the notice stated.

“Under the circumstances stated above, we have been instructed to demand of you, which we hereby do, that you tender to our client an unconditional apology in writing within 24 hours of the receipt of this notice for having made the said per se defamatory comments/statements/allegations,” it added.

She also warned the IPS officer with criminal charges if she did not comply with the demands.

“If you fail to comply with the above demands, our client will be forced to institute appropriate Criminal proceedings against you by filing an appropriate complaint before the jurisdictional Magistrate for an offence made penal under section 500 of the Indian Penal Code,” the notice stated.