MTNL employee sues colleagues for watching porn in her presence
8 April 2013 6:45 AM IST
A female employee of Mahanagar Telephone Ltd (MTNL) has approached the Delhi high court levelling charges against her male colleagues, saying they subjected her to sexual harassment by watching pornographic websites in her presence in the office.
She, who had got a job on compassionate ground as an assistant with MTNL at a north Delhi office after the death of her husband, alleged that four of her male colleagues were harassing her. ‘The respondents (male colleagues) used to open pornographic websites in the office computer installed in the room of respondent No 3 during office hours and used to call the petitioner (woman) into the room while viewing the pornographic websites,’ said her plea.
Hearing her plea, the Delhi high court has sought response from MTNL on charges against her male colleagues and has also asked MTNL counsel to apprise it, after taking instructions, as to whether the male employees concerned can be transferred or not.
‘This is strange... instead of transferring the employees against whom allegations have been made, you (MTNL) have transferred the complainant woman,’ Justice Rajiv Shakdher said and asked MTNL to file its reply by 7 May.
Her petition said that MTNL initially did not take any action and later constituted a panel to look into the allegations, it said. ‘The committee, without following the proper procedures and non application of mind, decided only to advise respondents No 3 to 6 ‘to be careful while dealing with women staff’, without redressing any of her complaints,’ the petition said.
She said in her petition that MTNL, instead of transferring male employees, transferred her to her disadvantage and putting her in hardship.
The petition also said that the colleagues of the victim extended threats and abuses to her after she objected to her male colleagues’ acts.
She, who had got a job on compassionate ground as an assistant with MTNL at a north Delhi office after the death of her husband, alleged that four of her male colleagues were harassing her. ‘The respondents (male colleagues) used to open pornographic websites in the office computer installed in the room of respondent No 3 during office hours and used to call the petitioner (woman) into the room while viewing the pornographic websites,’ said her plea.
Hearing her plea, the Delhi high court has sought response from MTNL on charges against her male colleagues and has also asked MTNL counsel to apprise it, after taking instructions, as to whether the male employees concerned can be transferred or not.
‘This is strange... instead of transferring the employees against whom allegations have been made, you (MTNL) have transferred the complainant woman,’ Justice Rajiv Shakdher said and asked MTNL to file its reply by 7 May.
Her petition said that MTNL initially did not take any action and later constituted a panel to look into the allegations, it said. ‘The committee, without following the proper procedures and non application of mind, decided only to advise respondents No 3 to 6 ‘to be careful while dealing with women staff’, without redressing any of her complaints,’ the petition said.
She said in her petition that MTNL, instead of transferring male employees, transferred her to her disadvantage and putting her in hardship.
The petition also said that the colleagues of the victim extended threats and abuses to her after she objected to her male colleagues’ acts.
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