Hello P. S. Natrajan! I have decided to speak to you when you stand suspended as the Inspector General (IG), south Chhotanagpur and when your IPS friends have shunned you.

The IPS Association has condemned you on finding you with your pants down with a tribal woman Uma Baraik in a TV footage.

Chief Minister, Arjun Munda was ‘outraged’ enough to announce ‘stern actions against you on his return from abroad.

Your colleagues are shying away from you. And only you would know how your wife and children are behaving after watching that footage showing you undressing yourself and a woman.

I have decided to speak to you and offer my sympathy to you at this critical juncture. “A friend in need is the friend indeed” goes the saying.

I hope you will honour me by letting me stand beside you in your time of distress.

As you are facing ignominy of worst order, I advise you to derive solace from the fact that you are not alone to have been caught in such an act.

The US President Bill Clinton nearly lost his job after he “fell” for a White House intern, Monica
Lewinsky. Renowned spinner Shane Warne was caught in an “illicit” relationship with “another” woman.

You are aware of a deputy collector of your own state Anup Sharan, “caught in the act” with a girl in a fashion almost similar to the one you have been caught in.

But there are striking dissimilarities between your stories and the ones related to the Clintons and
Shanes. Clinton was relatively young and fell for a gorgeous Monica. Similarly, smart Shane’s new ‘heart throb’, too, looks stunningly gorgeous.

An IPS officer and a 55-year-old, you have yourself told us that Uma Baraik who has been “black mailing” you is not Aishwarya Rai. You have also told us that the woman has slept with many men.

We have no reasons to wholly disbelieve you, for the woman in question has herself admitted her
relationships, with at least four men, including one of your subordinates.

You say: “If you watch the footage carefully you will find her necking and pecking me. I am not doing anything to her.” Though you also describe the footage as doctored. Now the question arises as to how did you let the woman “neck and peck” you and that too in her flat. Why did you visit her in her flat?

I am not inclined to buy my All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA) and other ‘revolutionary’ friends’ description of a“perpetual rape of an impoverished tribal woman by an IG”.

Uma has lived for months in Kalinga apartment, which costs Rs 5,000 per month, unaffordable to an impoverished.

Moreover, she also lived in a relatively good house in New Delhi. By no means Uma can be described as an “impoverished”.

She has stated to the channel, which carried out this “sting operation”, that she had gone to the IG to get back her son from the ‘clutches’ of her former husband.

Had it been really the case, she long ago would have gone to the family court rather than the IG, DIG or the channels involved in ‘sting operation’ to produce sensational stuff to beat their rivals and stay ahead in the market.

Finally a more serious advice. Jharkhand is saga of sexual exploitation of tribal women. It is said the poor brides had to spend first nights in the bed of their jamindars in Palamau villages during the British days.

Sexual exploitation is stated to be one of the reasons for the rise of naxalism in the state.

As such, the officers of your standing should avoid the lure of women in the interest of the people you have vowed to serve.