“Yesterday, I was informed that yet another inquiry has been initiated against my complaints of incidents of sexual harassment in the R&AW. But what purpose will another inquiry serve? Instead of the people against whom I have made complaints, I am the one who is being harassed, trailed and put under surveillance. So I decided to go to the Prime Minister’s Office. Since I was not allowed inside and since I have been waiting to see the Prime Minister for weeks, I decided enough was enough.”

This is what Nisha Bhatia, a Director in RAW’s training institute in Gurgaon, said from her bed in the trauma centre of the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital where she was admitted this afternoon after she consumed what doctors said was a “half-inch brick” of rat poison at the Prime Minister’s Office.

This comes a month after Bhatia wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on what she alleged was her sexual harassment by the top brass of the country’s premier overseas intelligence agency.