Andhra Pradesh has earned the dubious distinction of topping the list of sexual harassment cases in the country. The state also tops in the number of child marriages.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau, Andhra Pradesh has reported 29.1 per cent of sexual harassment cases, followed by Uttar Pradesh with 27.6 per cent. Cyberabad has reported the highest number of sexual harassment incidents in the country recording 833 cases. Cyberabad also topped the nation in “causing death by negligence” with 1,166 cases.
Hyderabad reported the highest number of incidents of hurt and grievous injuries in the country registering 4,244 cases.
The NCRB had last month reported that Andhra Pradesh, along with Gujarat, topped the list of child marriages in India. The report noted that 23 cases have been reported from Gujarat and 19 cases in Andhra Pradesh.
The other states which reported cases of child marriage are Karnataka (9), Bihar (8), Punjab and West Bengal (6 each), Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra (5 each), Haryana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu (4 each), Rajasthan (3), Himachal and Madhya Pradesh (2 each) and Assam, Goa and Orissa (one each).
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
APTransco engineer dismissed
For the first time, a chief engineer of APTransco has been dismissed from service for cheating a woman and sexually harassing over a dozen others.
The dismissal was kept secret by APTransco officials as they thought it would tarnish the image of the public utility. Investigations by this newspaper revealed that the dismissed chief engineer, Mr K. Rajamannar, faced several allegations including sexual harassment of female subordinates and bigamy.
Many women employees had even applied for transfer unable to bear his harassment. Some of them finally mustered courage to inform the misdeeds of the official to the women’s complaints committee.
“Victims told us that the officer used to sing love songs describing subordinate employees in a nasty manner,” said the secretary of the women’s committee, Ms G. Uma. “Many of them bore his torture silently for years but poured out their woes after the first complaint was given.”
The official used to target widows and divorcees by offering them favours. One employee, Ms Anamika (name changed) lodged a complaint stating that Mr Rajamannar had cheated her after promising to marry after divorcing his first wife.
“Nearly 12 women employees suffered silently as he was their head of department and threatened to block their promotions and increments,” said the, president of Women’s Welfare Association, Ms V. Anuradha.
“We conducted an inquiry and submitted a report to the joint managing director,” said Ms K. Radha, president of the women’s complaint committee and chief engineer, IPC division. Based on the inquiry report, the senior IPS officer, Mr Umesh Sharraf, who is also joint managing director of APTransco, took the extraordinary decision to dismiss the chief engineer by issuing the Memo No.CGM(HRD&Trg)/DE/DC-15-p1/2008-20.
There are hundreds of such cases pending before the government, but in none of the cases has such strong action been taken.
The dismissal was kept secret by APTransco officials as they thought it would tarnish the image of the public utility. Investigations by this newspaper revealed that the dismissed chief engineer, Mr K. Rajamannar, faced several allegations including sexual harassment of female subordinates and bigamy.
Many women employees had even applied for transfer unable to bear his harassment. Some of them finally mustered courage to inform the misdeeds of the official to the women’s complaints committee.
“Victims told us that the officer used to sing love songs describing subordinate employees in a nasty manner,” said the secretary of the women’s committee, Ms G. Uma. “Many of them bore his torture silently for years but poured out their woes after the first complaint was given.”
The official used to target widows and divorcees by offering them favours. One employee, Ms Anamika (name changed) lodged a complaint stating that Mr Rajamannar had cheated her after promising to marry after divorcing his first wife.
“Nearly 12 women employees suffered silently as he was their head of department and threatened to block their promotions and increments,” said the, president of Women’s Welfare Association, Ms V. Anuradha.
“We conducted an inquiry and submitted a report to the joint managing director,” said Ms K. Radha, president of the women’s complaint committee and chief engineer, IPC division. Based on the inquiry report, the senior IPS officer, Mr Umesh Sharraf, who is also joint managing director of APTransco, took the extraordinary decision to dismiss the chief engineer by issuing the Memo No.CGM(HRD&Trg)/DE/DC-15-p1/2008-20.
There are hundreds of such cases pending before the government, but in none of the cases has such strong action been taken.
