The Central Administrative Tribunal, which set aside the transfer order of an AIR executive on the complaint of harassing his women colleagues, said the complaint was "not explicit sexual harassment but treating the women colleagues in an unequal manner".
The CAT which delivered its order on an application from V Vijayakrishan, who was served with a transfer order to Karaikkal on February 22 and relieved on March 1, said the reason for transfer was the report of All India Radio's Women cell which said Vijayakrishnan did not involve in explicit sexual harassment or demands of a sexual nature, but merely involved in treating women employees in unequal manner.
Vijayakrishnan who was the Transmission Executive in Chennai was transferred on several complaints from women colleagues. The AIR formed a five member committee to go into the complaints which, in its report, said he created a hostile environment for his female colleagues and he threw registers at them, which came to a conclusion that it was not explicit sexual harassment.
But Vijayakrishnan was transferred on administrative grounds by the authorities, which he challenged before the CAT saying the reasons for his transfer were not furnished to him despite plea under the RTI Act.
He said the transfer was punitive and the bench of Chennai has jurisdiction to entertain his application, which set aside the transfer order.
