A former Anti-Corruption Department Inspector General has been charged with sexually harassing a female Special police Officer. The CBCID has begun an investigation into the incident, according to the tamil Nadu government's notification to the chennai High Court. The female SP filed a lawsuit in the High Court, alleging that the government had failed to respond to the complaint. 

In august 2019, a two-judge bench hearing an appeal against a separate judge's order directing the CBCID and the Visa Committee to move the hearings to telangana and file their inquiry reports within six months directed the CBCID and the Visa Committee to shift the hearings to telangana and file their inquiry reports within six months.

The ruling of the two-judge bench of the chennai High Court, which had relocated the case connected to the sexual harassment case to telangana, was invalidated in an appeal filed by the tamil Nadu government in the supreme court against this order. As a result, in 2019, I.G. Following the appeal, Judges M. Thuraisamy, J.S. and M. Thuraisamy, J.S. The case was heard today by a three-judge panel led by satya Narayana Prasad. After then, the petitioner was allowed four weeks to present his case.

Attorney General R. Shanmugasundaram, who was representing the tamil Nadu government at the time, protested, claiming that the matter had already been pending for three years and that no time restriction should be imposed. According to Assan Mohammad Jinnah, the state's chief criminal prosecutor, departmental sexual harassment accusations should be examined and resolved within 90 days, according to the visa committee rules. He objected, claiming that the case had been ongoing for three years and that the CPCIT had only begun an investigation, thus he should not be given time off. The case was then delayed for barely two weeks by the judges.
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29/01/2022 09:00 AM