Less than a week after a 32-year-old female security officer who had accused her senior of sexually and mentally abusing her was reinstated to her previous department at the international airport, it has now been learnt that the key witness in the case is being harrowed by his colleagues and superiors to retract his police statement.

The witness has even filed a written complaint at the Sahar police station against the alleged harassment. In his complaint (copy available with mid-day) the witness claims he is being mentally tortured. The letter states: “As I am a witness in the case, I am being harassed mentally, and now it is affecting my family as well.