Removal From Job Can’t Be Base For Filing Complaint Of Sexual Assault: Karnataka High Court!
In one of its landmark decisions, the Karnataka High Court stated that dismissal from a job cannot be used to file a sexual harassment complaint. With this, the High Court, after dismissing the complaint filed against the postmaster, ordered an investigation into the matter. This order was issued recently by a bench led by Justice K Natarajan.It stated that the fact that the officer-in-charge of the post office fired the employee could not be used to drag him to court on sexual harassment charges. Complaint was lodged against the postmaster The complainant, a temporary Group-D female employee, filed a sexual harassment complaint on May 16, 2018 at the Basavanagudi police station in Bengaluru. This was a complaint against Radhakrishna and Hanumantayya, the postmasters. The vict...
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