Coimbatore: A 40-year-old lady from Valapari staged a protest at the district collectorate on Monday alleging that the authorities of a tea estate have directed her to vacate her house after she filed a sexual harassment complaint in opposition to the estate contractor.
The employee with Kejimudi tea estate had filed a complaint a yr ago in opposition to a 60-year-old estate contractor for abusing her 16-year-old daughter, who has studying difficulties.
“I have been receiving threats to withdraw my complaint,” she said, including that as she remained company, she was once requested to vacate the house within the estate. The lady has filed a non-public petition with the Valparai judicial magistrate. Based at the petition, a primary data record (FIR) was once filed in October.
While Murganathavalli claimed that the contractor and two of his members of the family had paid the penalty of Rs 500 and have been released with none punishment, officials at the police division said that they had filed the case under Section 294 B (sings, recites or utters any obscene word) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
“The case was once closed as there was once now not any evidence to end up that the woman was once sexually abused,” the professional said, including that that they had filed every other FIR under Section 294 B and sexual harassment case after the woman filed a non-public petition, for the second time, at the court docket in March.
“We are investigating the case,” the professional added.
Rebutting the allegations, an expert from the estate said that they have got best transferred her to every other division within the estate and had allocated a equivalent house in that division.
“We have transferred her after receiving court cases from her co-workers and to separate each the workers who're concerned within the case,” the authority added.
The employee with Kejimudi tea estate had filed a complaint a yr ago in opposition to a 60-year-old estate contractor for abusing her 16-year-old daughter, who has studying difficulties.
“I have been receiving threats to withdraw my complaint,” she said, including that as she remained company, she was once requested to vacate the house within the estate. The lady has filed a non-public petition with the Valparai judicial magistrate. Based at the petition, a primary data record (FIR) was once filed in October.
While Murganathavalli claimed that the contractor and two of his members of the family had paid the penalty of Rs 500 and have been released with none punishment, officials at the police division said that they had filed the case under Section 294 B (sings, recites or utters any obscene word) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
“The case was once closed as there was once now not any evidence to end up that the woman was once sexually abused,” the professional said, including that that they had filed every other FIR under Section 294 B and sexual harassment case after the woman filed a non-public petition, for the second time, at the court docket in March.
“We are investigating the case,” the professional added.
Rebutting the allegations, an expert from the estate said that they have got best transferred her to every other division within the estate and had allocated a equivalent house in that division.
“We have transferred her after receiving court cases from her co-workers and to separate each the workers who're concerned within the case,” the authority added.
Estate worker alleges contractor sexually abused her daughter
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