Sexual harassment: Loyola ordered to pay ₹64.3 lakh

Woman faculty member was verbally terminated from service
The Tamil Nadu State Commission for Women has directed Loyola College, Chennai, to immediately pay ₹64.3 lakh, with interest, to a senior woman faculty member, who was allegedly harassed by a Jesuit Father and verbally terminated from service.
The amount includes back wages, damages for mental agony and “unkind words of sexual harassment” and compensation for a false complaint.
“The Commission found that her track record was very good and there was no reason for terminating her service. It is very clear that Loyola College has abruptly stopped her from work deliberately,” said an order passed by Commission chairperson Kannegi Packianathan on December 22. “For the kind of trauma and physical and sexual abuse she has been submitted to, she has to be adequately compensated, expeditiously,” it said.

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