Mrs.

Barkha Shukla Singh

Honble Chairperson
Delhi Commission for Women
New Delhi

Sub: complaint filed by my wife Mrs. Lipika Mitra

Dear Madam,

Today at 3 PM I was asked to appear before the commission in

connection with the complaint filed by my wife Mrs. Lipika Mitra which
I agreed to in spite of the following.

1. As per rule (g) (ix) of complaint handing policy if the complainant has
approached the police etc. then the matter should be immediately
closed with suitable advice to the parties. In the instant case, as
shown on the TV channels a person from DCW had taken my wife to
meet Sh. Deepak Mishra, Honble Spl. CP(Law and Order) on June 10,
2015 itself and on 11.06.2015 a complaint was lodged with CAW cell at
sector-9, Dwarka, New Delhi in which view DCW should have stopped
all and any proceeding in this case after 11.06.2015 and all
proceedings including press conferences held by you in this case are in

violation of the rules mentioned in the complaint handling policy

authored by no one by DCW.
2. You failed to live up to the expectations of the chairperson, DCW by
holding press conferences without hearing the other party. It seems
that for you, politicization of the issues are dearer than the resolving
issues to unite the family. After all every couple goes through such
turbulent times at some or the other time in their relationships but the
well-wishers (you are by designation a well-wisher to all such families)
play a role to douse the flames and help to bring in order in the family
but you did exactly opposite. You failed to realize that it involves two
little children who dont know whats going on.
3. On June 15, 2015 you did a press conference at your residence
knowing fully well that my wife was in an agitated mind and whatever
she will say would damage her reputation and that of the family as
well but at the same time you did not allow my mother to enter into
your house to allow her to meet my wife. That was a golden
opportunity for you to help them meet and clear misunderstandings
but you failed. Such misuse/abuse of DCW by you will not be forgotten
and forgiven.
But

yesterday

you

again

did

press

conference

and

in

no

unambiguous words you defamed me, Dr. Kumar Vishwas and our

party AAP by using choicest of words and further said that you wont
do any counselling of such anti-social people in which view I have
decided not to appear before the commission.
Kindly stop using the forum for political purposes and creating
headlines. Had you really been interested in women welfare, you
would not have entertained the complaint against Dr. Kumar Vishwas
at the first place as the woman had already approached the police on
01.04.2015 and rather would have pursued with the police to
prosecute those four named persons in her complaint to the police.
Since the matter was already with police, you had no jurisdiction to
entertain that matter and issue summons to Dr. Kumar Vishwas and
his wife. On 01.06.2015, after your counsel admitted in the court that
the matter against Dr. Vishwas was closed, you again misled the media
by briefing that the matter has been forwarded to police and not
closed when the matter was already with the police since 01.04.2015,
much before she approached you on 30.04.2015.
Since my matter has also been with police since 11.06.2015, DCW has
no jurisdiction over the case. Possibly now you will brief the media that
you are referring the matter to police which will be a lie as big as it
was in the case of Dr. Kumar Vishwas.

With folded hands I request you that kindly dont do anything further
to create further divide in my family. My wife doesnt have any elder to
be counseled by, may be you can counsel her to agree to meet a
marriage counselor of her choice with me and sort out the differences
at

least

in

the

interest

of

my

two

little

children

Somalika

(Somnath+Lipika) and Somansh (Soms Ansh) (coined by my wife).

Thanking you,
With warm regards,

(Somnath Bharti)
CC: Mrs. Sudha Tokas,
Member, DCW