New Delhi: A female employee of the West Bengal Raj Bhavan has moved the Supreme Court, seeking a direction to the West Bengal police from the apex court to investigate the allegations of sexual harassment made against Governor C.V. Ananda Bose.
The petitioner has also asked the court to frame guidelines and fix qualification to the extent of the immunity enjoyed by the constitutional figure under Article 361 of the Constitution, reported Deccan Herald.
While Article 361 (2) of the Constitution states that no criminal proceedings can be instituted or continued against the President, or the Governor of a state, in any court during their term of office, the petitioner said in her plea that she has been rendered ‘remediless’ due to the constitutional immunity granted to the Governor.
The petitioner has asked the Supreme Court to frame guidelines and fix qualification to the extent of this constitutional immunity.
She has added that such powers cannot be so absolute that it enables a Governor to perpetrate illegal acts.
“The petitioner in fact, also wrote a complaint to Raj Bhavan highlighting her grievances only to be subjected to humiliation in the form of inaction by concerned authorities, and being made a mockery of in the media and termed as a political tool, without any safeguards for her self-respect,” the petitioner said in her plea, reported Deccan Herald.
Earlier on June 28, Governor Bose had filed a defamation case against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after the latter claimed that women complained to her that they were afraid to visit Raj Bhavan.
