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SRINAGAR | July 9, 2014, Wednesday

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Sexual assault case ‘closure’ aftermath

Other states join demand
for fresh, impartial probe
Srinagar, July 9: Demanding
fresh and impartial probe into the
sexual assault case against Director Health Saleem-ur-Rehman,
students, activists, and para-medical staff Wednesday staged protests in various states of country.
They also demanded setting up
of a committee under Vishakha
guidelines with immediate effect.
Protestors raised various questions over the closure of sexual
assault case against some health
officials. “We witnessed blatant
violations of the rule of law, flouting of legal procedures, denial of
justice and character assassination of complainants with intent
to subvert justice. The most glaring example of this is the case of
a nurse employed in J&K Health
Department who complained of
serial harassment over years by
several health department officials,” said Shehla Rashid Shora,
social activist and JNU student.
She said that under media
pressure, “an illegally constituted
one-man committee called the complainant for ‘investigation’ but her
statement was not recorded.”
Shora said that the committee was in complete violation of

Supreme Court guidelines as it
should have been headed by a
woman, at least half of the members should be women and that an
external member who has understanding of these issues should be
on the committee.
“When the one-man committee gave a ‘clean chit’ to the Director, the J&K Health Minister, Taj
Mohiuddin is on on record to have
said that, from day one he knew the
Director Health was innocent. This
statement is nothing but a blatant
admission of bias,” she added.
Protestors demanded constitution of a committee under
Vishakha guidelines.
“A fresh, High Court monitored probe should be initiated in
to the case. Workplace anti sexual
harassment committees should be
constituted by all workplaces in
J&K and the State Women’s Commission should overlook the formation of the same within a reasonable time frame,” they demanded.
“The accused in such cases
should not be allowed to hold
high posts till the enquiry is over.
The Union Health Ministry must
ensure compliance with sexual
harassment at workplace to check
harassment of female medicos in
hospitals and other health cen-

tres,” they added.
They said they were protesting against the lapses in the
molestation case and increasing
harassment of women at workplaces.
“Similar cases of harassment of paramedical staff and
female medicos have been
reported from elsewhere. In all
of these cases, nursing professionals were denied the right
to have an anti sexual harassment committee as per Vishakha
guidelines,” they said.
They informed apart from
this protest today at Sri Pratap

Park here, same resentment is
expressed in Nirman Bhawan
Delhi; Dadar Station Mumbai
and in Thrissur Kerala against
the closure of case and character
assassination of the complainant. Protestors included members of JNU Students Union,
IUST Students Union, United
Nurses Association Kerala and
All India Progressive Women’s
Association.
Meanwhile, activists from
Mumbai confirmed to Greater
Kashmir that they held a protest
in solidarity with protesters in
Srinagar.

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