New Delhi: The Supreme Court has
dismissed the petition filed by a senior woman officer of the
country`s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis
Wing who had alleged sexual harassment by her superior
officers.
"We have gone through the petition as also the documents
filed and find that the allegations made by the petitioner
(Nisha Priya Bhatia) have been inquired into by several
independent bodies including a committee headed by Dr Renuka
Viswanathan and supervised by the Cabinet Secretary and that
no merit has been found in the allegations levelled by her.
"The record further shows that the allegations made by
the petitioner have at one time or the other been examined by
the National Human Rights Commission and the National
Commission for Women and they too had not granted her any
relief," the apex court said in a judgement.
Interestingly, the bench of Justices H S Bedi and J M
Panchal said it did not pass the judgement in the presence of
Nisha as she was "surcharged" and "emotionally disturbed".
The Central Information Commission (CIC) has pulled up
RAW for not providing Nisha the report of a "complaint
committee" to one of its officials after it probed her sexual
harassment allegations against her bosses.
PTI
