New Delhi: A Dalit woman officer in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi district has been allegedly denying drinking water on August 2, 2018. An FIR was registered against six people, including two village heads. The officer, DrSeema, serving as a deputy chief veterinary officer, was allegedly denied drinking water because of her Dalit identity in AmbawaPoorab village of Manjhanpur block on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, DrSeema (she goes by this name) submitted a complaint to the district magistrate, Kaushambi, Manish Kumar Verma, who directed SP (Kaushambi) Pradeep Gupta to lodge an FIR against six persons.

The police lodged the FIR under SC/ST Act against head of AmbawaPoorab village Shiv Sampat, PankajYadav, the husband of BhailaMakdoompur village head, Saibasa village head Ansar Ali, district panchyat member JhallarTiwari, district panchayati raj officer Ravidutt Mishra and Rajesh Singh at Manjhanpur police station.

According to the SP, the matter is being investigated and stern action would be initiated against those found guilty. DrSeema said she had gone to the village on the directions of the DPRO to review development projects. She said she was not given water for two-and-a-half hours despite she being a diabetic.

In her complaint, she claimed that they behaved very abnormally with her and when she asked for water, she was denied the same by six people sitting there.In the complaint, she has claimed that she is a diabetic and that her arms and limbs started trembling, forcing her to leave the place.

As per reports, the officer alleged that when she sought water from the villagers, the village head Sampat and the DPRO gestured them to not give her the same.