Sahitya Academy to restore a female employee who file sexual harassment complaint: Supreme Court - NCR Delhi High Court recommends reinstatement in the case of sexual harassment in New Delhi City News.

Updated: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 06:00 am (IST) Delhi High Court ordered that a female employee of the Sahitya Academy be restored to be suspended for sexual harassment complaints. The court canceled the suspension as retaliation. The court criticized the academy and said that the institute could not create a safe atmosphere. The woman was ordered to give full salary and benefits. Jagran correspondent, New -Delhi. The Delhi High Court ordered that a female employee of Sahitya Akademi be reinstated, who was suspended in February 2020 for the filing of a sexual harassment complaint against the secretary of the Academy. Remove advertisement, just read the news, Justice Shev Narula canceled this action against the woman and called it a violation of vengeful and loop law 2013. The court said the case is an abuse of administrative discretion, where the woman was removed from the post to suppress the complaint. Judge Narula criticized the Academy, saying that the institute did not fail to secure safe and transparent workplace by standing in favor of his officer. The court ordered the woman to be restored to the post and retain continuity in her service, give full salary and other benefits. The woman was appointed to test in 2018. He accused the secretary of persistent harassment, sexual signs and threats to get out of the post. In November 2019, he sent a complaint to the Academy Executive Council, which was sent to the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC). In the same month, the woman also filed a formal complaint in the Local Grievance Committee (LCC) in terms of the Loop Act. The LCC found that the case was initially established and discharged with three months of payment. But in January 2020, the ICC released a one -sided report and stopped the investigation. After this, the Academy ended the woman’s probationary period. The Supreme Court said that the secretary under the category of employers falls under the course and that the complaint must have been pending with the LCC. The court ordered the LCC, while canceling the ICC report, to transfer the woman’s sexual harassment complaint.