223 employees from the Delhi Women Commission were removed with immediate effect on the order of Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena on May 2. Alleging that former Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal had appointed them without permission.
The Women and Child Development (WCD) department of the Delhi Government has directed the DCW to sack the contractual staffers who it said were hired without "following due procedure".
Former DCW chief and AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal slammed the order.