Sending vulgar messages to girl colleague unbecoming of uniformed officer: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court has noticed {that a} married uniformed officer indulging in a relationship with one other girl and sending her vulgar messages is “unbecoming of an officer of a uniform power”.

The remark was made by the courtroom whereas upholding the punishment of a pay discount imposed on a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) sub-inspector, who confronted allegations of sexually harassing a feminine colleague by sending her inappropriate messages and making harassing telephone calls.

“As accurately identified within the inquiry proceedings and the revisional authority, the petitioner, being a member of a Uniform Service, was already married and had no enterprise to take pleasure in a relationship with one other girl and ship vulgar messages. This conduct is certainly unbecoming of an officer of a Uniform Force,” a Bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Vimal Kumar Yadav mentioned.

‘Treated flippantly’

While dismissing the officer’s attraction in opposition to the punishment, the courtroom said that the penalty was applicable contemplating the misconduct and talked about that he had been handled “very flippantly”.

The punishment consisted of a pay discount for 2 years, throughout which he wouldn’t obtain any pay increments.

The girl, a Sub-Inspector of the CISF, who was working in the identical unit with the accused, alleged that he had “sexually harassed her by sending her vulgar messages on WhatsApp and had additionally harassed her by way of cell calls”.

Following her grievance, a departmental inquiry was carried out, and expenses have been framed in opposition to the officer, and the punishment was imposed by the inquiry committee.

The revisional authority rejected the plea of the officer, holding that his allegation concerning non-consideration of his defence model was not supported by any particular particulars.

“Applying the regulation laid down within the catena of judgments, this courtroom doesn’t discover any infirmity within the inquiry proceedings. It can’t be mentioned that the extraneous materials has been thought of by the inquiry committee or that any related materials has been omitted to be thought of. The ideas of pure justice have been adopted,” the courtroom mentioned within the judgment handed on September 22 and made out there on the courtroom’s web site on October 14.