HYDERABAD: Telangana high court on Tuesday said there was no need for a separate departmental inquiry for terminating an errant employee and upheld the decision of Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) which terminated an employee in a sexual harassment case.
A bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N Tukaramji said this while allowing an appeal filed by GAIL against a single judge order that set aside the termination order and wanted the company to initiate separate disciplinary proceedings in tune with the law.
The bench gave a pre-eminent status to the probe conducted by the internal complaints committee (ICC) formed under the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. Duraisamy Bhaskaran, chief manager of HR, Hyderabad, was removed from GAIL on March 24, 2017, after a probe by ICC indicted him.
