Senior cop turns into `Doosri Radha'

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A UNIQUE TRANSFORMATION: IPS officer D.K. Panda, who believes that he has turned into a woman and wishes to be addressed by the name `Radha' outside his official residence in Lucknow on Saturday. - Photo: PTI

 

Lucknow: In a strange reversal of roles, a man entrusted with the task of maintaining law and order in the state, has instead donned the role of Radha — beloved of Lord Krishna, much to the angst of his wife, who has moved court against him.

 

Inspector General (Rules and Manuals) Devendra Kumar Panda, has since 1991 donned the role of Radha, the beloved of Krishna and plunged into a pool of Krishna Bhakti.

 

Dressed in female attires and sporting a Mangtika (jewellery adorning the head of females), a nose ring, besides wearing the vermillion (Sindoor), Mr Panda spends most of his time dancing and singing bhajans supposed to have been sung by Radha for her beloved.

 

The love for Krishna is best accentuated by the plaque on Mr Panda's residence in 5/2 IPS Colony Vibhuti Khand in Gomti Nagar here, that reads instead of D.K. Panda (IPS) "Doosri Radha."

 

According to recent media reports, Mr Panda says that in 1991, he got the divine glimpse of Lord Krishna who told that the cop was in reality his beloved Radha. Since then Mr Panda has been rewriting rules by playing the romantic character of Radha, much to the dismay of his own Radha, (his wife Veena Panda).

 

Veena, who was married to the cop in 1973, now terms him as a dramatist and has instead secured from the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court, a monthly maintenance of Rs 7,000 from her better half.

 

A division bench of the Court comprising Justices U.K. Dhawan and S.S. Chauhan ordered Mr Panda to grant an interim monthly maintenance of Rs 7,000 to Ms Panda through banker's cheque.

 

Repeated attempts to interact with Mr Panda, however, could not deliver any result. -- UNI

 

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