IT commissioner Srivastava responds to charges against him

Income Tax Commissioner SK Srivastava is an angry man. His colleagues are filing sexual harassment cases against him; the media is not listening to his allegations of former cabinet minister P Chidambaram being in unholy league withNDTV; the Delhi High Court has not ruled in his favour; and as if all this wasn’t bad enough, journalist Abhisar Sharma has gone out and called his claims “filth“.

Since we provided a platform for Sharma to air his complaints, we’ve extended the same courtesy to Srivastava. So here he is, holding forth on all of his claims and putting forward his point of view.

Srivastava strenuously maintains that he’s on the money with his accusation that the two income tax women officers he’s targeted (one of them is Sharma’s wife) are sex workers, even though he hasn’t actually seen what he claims is the clinching evidence to this claim. He says that he was falsely accused of rape (which he wasn’t. He’s been accused of harassment). Srivastava also told Newslaundry that NDTV is a corrupt organisation and in league with Chidambaram, and that the two officers Srivastava has targeted were among the legion of officials and journalists that NDTV bribed — not that he has any specific evidence to this effect that he could point out, but let’s not obsess over details.