Homeless woman advocate gives sleepless nights to cops

A woman advocate, who claims to be a whistleblower, has been camping outside police stations and homes of senior police officers for several months fearing “threats” from her previous employer.

Delhi Police senior officers are having sleepless nights as she rings them up at night and mails them, sometimes saying she fears that someone keeps a tab on her.

Seema Sapra, 41, stays in her car and sleeps inside it, sometimes parking it outside police officers’ houses or police stations in Lutyens Zone, said S B S Tyagi, deputy commissioner of police (New Delhi).

Most nights her car is parked outside Tilak Marg and Tuglaq Road police stations during night.

“She had filed a case of corruption against her ex-employer General Electric around one and half years ago and the case is in a city court. She appealed to court for providing security to her as she feared various threats from her employer,” said Tyagi.

The High Court has issued an order last month to provide security to her. She claimed herself to be a whistleblower by `exposing’ GE’s use of corrupt methods to acquire government tenders.

She was drawing a salary of Rs 3 lakh per month. She became homeless after her company fired her.

She stayed first at Tata Ginger Hotel in east Delhi and then at Ambassador Hotel but had to leave both places due to financial problems. After that, she started staying in her Santro.

Police said they have no idea about Sapra’s family.

“We have requested her to tell us her address so that we can provide her security but she replied that she stays in her car and she has no proper address,” said Tyagi.

A police officer also said Sapra asked for a Z plus security, or two head constables and a woman constable. She also demanded that the guards stay  with her while she travels.
She recently camped outside special commissioner P N Aggarwal’s house at Rabindra Nagar and alleged that she had been denied proper security.

Not only that, she has been sending several mails to senior officials, including Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar and Lieutenant Governor, about her day-and-night ordeal.

“She even calls up senior officers during late night and early morning complaining daily about various petty issues,” said Tyagi. Once she said that while she was asleep in her car, a biker stopped near it and she was scared “if he was sent by someone to abduct me”.

Senior policemen are yet to find any solution to the problem. While police have to report to the court in August on security provided to Sapra, they will request the court to provide them her address.