New Delhi: "I can only pray that no woman is born in this country," says a young IAS officer Riju Bafna, in a Facebook post that has gone viral. "Idiots are lined up at every step," she says, describing her experience of combatting sexual harassment.
Ms Bafna, who is a trainee bureaucrat posted in Seoni in Madhya Pradesh, reveals that she filed a sexual harassment case last week against a member of the state's human rights commission for sending her "indecent messages".
Ms Bafna, who is in her 20s, says a police complaint led to the alleged harasser's swift removal from his post, but it was far from a satisfactory ending.
She requested that he and others be asked to leave the courtroom - "I was uncomfortable giving my statement in front of so many people," she says.
Ms Bafna says she explained her concerns to the judge as well. "When I said to Judicial Magistrate that he should be careful of presence of other people when a woman is giving statement under sexual harassment case, he said that you are young and that's why demanding such things."
Ms Bafna, who is a trainee bureaucrat posted in Seoni in Madhya Pradesh, reveals that she filed a sexual harassment case last week against a member of the state's human rights commission for sending her "indecent messages".
Ms Bafna, who is in her 20s, says a police complaint led to the alleged harasser's swift removal from his post, but it was far from a satisfactory ending.
She requested that he and others be asked to leave the courtroom - "I was uncomfortable giving my statement in front of so many people," she says.
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Ms Bafna says she explained her concerns to the judge as well. "When I said to Judicial Magistrate that he should be careful of presence of other people when a woman is giving statement under sexual harassment case, he said that you are young and that's why demanding such things."
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