Janjgir Champa/ Chattisgarh: Police registered FIR against an IAS officer in Chattisgarh on Wednesday. According to the police sources a women complained that the Janjgir Champa Collector sexually assaulted her, when he was the Collector.

The police registered a case on rape charges. 2007 batch IAS officer Pathak was transferred out of Janjgir Champa on May 27^th and is now working as Land Records Commissioner. A Government spokesperson in Raipur said that the matter has come into the notice of the Government, and that police acted promptly on the women’s complaint.

The woman met the SP and submitted a complaint that Pathak had threatened to sack her husband and raped her inside the Collectorate, said the police. In her statement, she said that he used to send her lewd messages. She had submitted screenshots of these messages along with her complaint.