Chief Justice India D.Y. Chandrachud has sought a report from the Allahabad High Court after a woman judge from Uttar Pradesh wrote an open letter to him, saying she has suffered the “personal humiliation” of being denied a fair hearing on her complaint of sexual harassment at workplace and has lost her will to live.
The woman judge said she was sexually harassed by a district judge and his associates.
She said, in the letter circulated on social media, that she had complained to the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court and Administrative Judge, but to no avail. The Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) of the High Court took six months and “a thousand emails” to even start an enquiry into her complaint filed in July.
