Sexual Harassment Allegations By UP Woman Judge: Supreme Court Receives Status Report From Allahabad HC

The Supreme Court has received a report from the Allahabad High Court regarding the status of the complaints lodged by a female judicial officer, who alleged sexual harassment by a district judge in Uttar Pradesh.

The Supreme Court received the report on Friday but it hasn't been processed yet, Indian Express reported citing sources.

On 13 December, the Supreme Court declined to entertain a plea by the complainant noting that the internal complaints committee concerned was already seized of the matter and had passed a resolution for approval of the HC Chief Justice.

In response to this, the complainant, a civil judge, penned an open letter to the Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, requesting permission to end her life.

Taking cognisance of the letter, the CJI asked the SC Registry to seek a report from the HC on the status of the complaints.

In her two-page letter, the judicial officer, who filed the complaint, accused her superior of sexual harassment during her previous assignment six months ago, and said she had no hope of getting a fair inquiry, let alone justice.

“I joined the judicial service with much enthusiasm and belief that I would dispense justice to the common folk. What did I know that I’ll soon be rendered a beggar for justice on every door that I go. In the short time of my service, I have had the rare honour of being abused on the dais in an open court," she wrote in the letter.

“I have been sexually harassed to the very limit. I have been treated like utter garbage. I feel like an unwanted insect. And I hoped to provide justice to others,” she wrote in the letter, which went viral on social media on Thursday.

“I did not expect that my complaints and statement (would) be taken as cardinal truth. All I wished for was a fair enquiry,” she wrote, alleging that she was asked to meet her senior at night. She claimed to have tried to kill herself but the “attempt was not successful”.

“I have no will to live anymore. I have been rendered a walking corpse in the last one-and-a-half year. There is no purpose in carrying this soulless and lifeless body around anymore. There is no purpose left in my life. Kindly permit me to end my life in a dignified way. Let my life be dismissed,” she wrote to the CJI.