New Delhi: The Delhi police have registered an FIR against three people including an independent journalist who had alleged sexual assault by Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Vivek Bhagat during a protest calling for CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation in the national capital on October 3, reported The Hindu.The FIR, registered on the basis of the complaint of the police officer alleges caste-based humiliation, intimidation and obstruction of official duty, with the trio being booked under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and also under relevant sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.Notably, till now no FIR has been registered on the journalist’s complaint alleging sexual harassment by ACP Bhagat. The complaint was filed more than 10 days back and was subsequently transferred to the Crime Branch for inquiry.The Hindu report added that ACP Bhagat has submitted his complaint to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), New Delhi district on Tuesday (October 13), following which the FIR was registered at Parliament Street police station on the same day.Apart from the independent journalist who alleged sexual harassment by Bhagat, the two other accused include journalist, Gajendra Singh of News Diggy and an unidentified person.Bhagat has alleged in his complaint that he belongs to a Scheduled Caste (SC) community and the journalist made derogatory remarks about his caste and questioned his appointment as an ACP while referring to his nameplate in public.As per the complaint, ACP Bhagat and his operator, constable Ravi Dahiya, allegedly heard the journalist talking about his caste identity and making remarks suggesting that people from his community were engaged in tailoring and weaving, questioning how he had become an ACP.The FIR has been registered under Sections 221 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 356(2) (defamation) and 3(5) (common intention) of the BNS, and relevant sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.ACP Bhagat has alleged in his complaint that while he initially the alleged remarks and continued performing his duty, later the journalist accused him of sexually assaulting her. Subsequently she and her colleagues, including Singh – another accused in the FIR – repeatedly confronted him, asking how he dared to touch her inappropriately, thereby obstructing his official duty. They also later staged a protest outside Parliament Street police station on the same day, and raised slogans against him by name and called him a “sexual predator” and a “potential rapist”.The complaint also names Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) members Abhijeet Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, along with Ratna Singh, in connection with social media posts.ACP Bhagat has alleged that the remarks and social media posts had caused him mental trauma and damaged his reputation.Notably, one of the three women journalists who had alleged sexual assault by ACP Bhagat was allegedly detained along with several others on October 5.Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi had noted that the police hasn’t fulfilled even their most basic duty, the filing of an FIR.On October 7, five press bodies – the Indian Women’s Press Corps, Press Club of India, Delhi Union of Journalists, Press Association and Kerala Union of Journalists – had called for the registration of an FIR against ACP Bhagat over allegations of sexual assault against the three women journalists.