AHMEDABAD: The emergence of the scandal surrounding the marital life of IAS officer

was triggered by his reported intimacy and alleged third marriage with a woman colleague.

TOI learned that one month ago, the bureaucrat who is accused of

, breach of trust and criminal intimidation by his ‘second wife’, had reportedly accompanied a 52-year-old woman to hospital, whom he referred to as his ‘mother-in-law’. She is reportedly the mother of a woman named Pallavi, who also accompanied them there.

“Dahiya, who was the mission director of the National Health Mission in the state health department, brought the woman to a hospital on the Civil Hospital campus. The 52-year-old woman was bleeding from her uterus and a surgical procedure was performed on her,” a top official said.

Pallavi also finds mention in the application of complaint filed by a Delhi-based woman, which states: “Dr Gaurav Dahiya is now involved with another woman, Pallavi, and has married her.”

According to the case details, the Delhi woman alleged that Dahiya had married her on February 28, 2018, and is the father her daughter, who was born on November 23, 2018. Dahiya was allegedly still married to his first wife at this point, as his divorce came through only in January 2019.

Sources say Dahiya’s growing intimacy with Pallavi — who used to work as a project director with the National Health Mission under Dahiya — led to discord between Dahiya and the Delhi-based woman.

Pallavi is a dentist by training and reportedly quit her job in the state health department a month ago.

Top police sources said Dahiya had been living with Pallavi at a flat in Motera. This could not be independently verified.