Woman moves HC for sexual harassment FIR against landlord, bench finds she filed 19 such cases in Jind

A bench of Justice Harpreet Singh Brar directed the Haryana DGP to conduct a thorough probe into the allegations leveled by the woman and find out how many complaints of a similar nature have been filed by her in Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh.

“In case the allegations leveled by her are found to be false and manipulated, the DGP is directed to take action against her, in accordance with the law,” ordered the HC.

The court issued the directions while hearing a plea by the woman, who has sought to set aside the order of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Sirsa, which had declined her application to register an FIR for sexual harassment and assault.

The woman has alleged that her landlord had verbally harassed and physically assaulted her, following which she gave a complaint to the police but no action was taken. Her counsel argued that the respondents had evicted her from her rented accommodation and were in illegal possession of her documents and household articles, and thus her application for registration for FIR should be allowed.