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'Misunderstanding with senior male colleagues at workplace does not constitute sexual abuse': Madras High Court

Lawstreet Journal 1 Sep 2021 6:25pm

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On Wednesday, 25th August, 2021 the Madras High Court passed an order that disagreements, misunderstandings with a male colleague would not constitute sexual abuse, by setting aside a Tamil Nadu Women Commission order directing Loyola College Society to pay Rupees 64.3 Lakhs to a female employee who had filed a case of sexual harassment against a former principal.

Justice N. Satish Kumar stated that no case of harassment has been made as under the provisions of the Section 3 of the Sexual Harassment Of Women At workplace Act, 2013.

“Without showing any instances leading to sexual harassment merely on the basis of some misunderstandings in the work place between superior and thereafter she was changed to some other post in a consolidate pay, every such instance cannot be termed as sexual harassment…such misunderstandings or happenings in the work place cannot be classified as sexual harassment," it added.

The court observed that the case of sexual harassment had been filed after more than one and a half years from the date of the incident of harassment.

In this case, the petitioner had been appointed as an administrator in the Loyola development office and the Alumni Association in 2010.  She served five years in that position by earning 30,000 rupees a month. Subsequently she had been appointed as secretary. However, her work was stopped on September 2014, and she was offered a sum of rupees 50,000 but she had rejected that offer.

In 2016, she had moved a writ petition in… Continue Reading...


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