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Bhubaneswar, July 14: The wife of senior IAS and KBK chief administrator Taradatt alleged Tuesday that her husband has been having a fling with another woman, an IES officer based in Delhi, for last six years.
Taradatt’s wife Indulata Das Tuesday visited the Orissa State Commission for Woman (OSCW), where her case against her husband for moral turpitude, has been going on since December last. “I’m not really satisfied with the way my case is being dealt with by the panel,” she said.
Das alleged her husband developed an affair with an Indian Economic Service (IES) officer during his posting in 2009 in Delhi. The IES officer currently serves as joint secretary in the finance department at the Centre.
“My husband was deputed as joint secretary at the Centre in 2009 where he came in contact with the then director of Cabinet Secretary who used to be his colleague. When he came back from Delhi, my husband introduced the woman to me as a distant relative,” said Das.
Das, who runs an NGO called Academy for Yoga and Oriental Studies, said when she had gone to Allahabad for Kumbha Mela in 2013 with her husband, the IES officer had made all the arrangement for them.
“I found my husband speaking to the woman at around 2 am for long hours. I found several text messages exchanged between them that indicated they were very intimate,” Das said.
When Orissa POST approached Taradatt, who is also Director General of Gopabandhu Academy of Administration, on this issue, his personal secretary said Taradatt is out of Orissa and he has instructed that he won’t speak to any journalist.
The woman IES officer, when reached by Orissa POST, said she is not authorized to speak anything on the issue before hanging up in a hurry.
OSCW chairperson Lopamudra Buxapati said, “We are doing everything according to provisions of our commission. She visited us today for discussion.”
Das now stays in a separate apartment from her husband at Forest Park which she claims she maintained on her own. Taradatt stays at the government quarter at the Forest Part. Das retired as lecturer from a government college where she taught Sanskrit. Earlier, she had also approached the CM’s Grievance Cell to lodge her complaint in December last.
In March this year, the Opposition made a hue and cry on the issue in the State Assembly asking the Chief Minister to speak on the issue and also provide security to Das.
A month after the allegation levelled by her wife, Taradatt, who headed the task force to probe the irregularities in allotment of plots and houses under the discretionary quota, was shunted out to Gopabandhu Academy of Administration.
