Sexual harassment at workplace: DTC staffers to be put on trial

A senior woman officer of DTC would face trial before a Delhi court for allegedly threatening a female staffer for complaining against an accountant of sexual harrassment.

Metropolitan Magistrate Ekta Gauba ordered framing of charges against the male employee, an accountant who has now retired, and the woman officer who was the Manager of Shadipur Depot of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) when the alleged incident took place.

The court said the charge sheet of the police prima facie showed that on August 23, 2011, the accused accountant had wrongfully restrained the female staffer when she went to mark her attendance, “misbehaved indecently” with her and “uttered words insulting her modesty”.