<p>Unfazed by the growing demand for his resignation as chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC), Justice A K Ganguly on Wednesday continued with his duties, taking cognizance of a schoolgirl’s alleged molestation. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The girl from Howrah district was allegedly sexually harassed by one of her teachers in school. Justice Ganguly took cognizance of media reports and directed the district police superintendent to investigate the matter and file a report in four weeks.<br /><br />Justice Ganguly is facing charges of sexually harassing a law intern in a Delhi hotel last year. The retired Supreme Court judge was found guilty by a three-member committee appointed by the apex court. <br /><br />Justice Ganguly, who went on leave after the committee’s report was made public, joined work on December 13, the Howrah girl’s case being his first usual assignment since. Meanwhile, the WBHRC office was besieged by protesters demanding his resignation. <br /><br />The retired apex court judge has been facing heat from a host of political leaders, mostly from the BJP and the Trinamool Congress, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who wrote to President Pranab Mukherjee twice, demanding his removal from office. <br /><br />Upping the ante, Trinamool Congress youth leader Mahua Moitra wrote an open letter to Justice Ganguly, published in a leading English daily on Wednesday.<br /><br />In her letter, Moitra pointed out that the committee’s report “established prima facie that an act of unwelcome verbal/non-verbal conduct of a sexual nature had been committed by Justice Ganguly”. <br /><br />“The tragic irony of the chairman of a human rights commission being not only accused of the grossest of violations of a young girl’s rights but being indicted prima facie by a panel of his ex-colleagues is obvious to all of us except Justice Ganguly and a few of his ilk.<br /><br />“The statutory post you occupy today does not behoove a prevaricating sexual predator, Sir, for the last time, resign! Or this nation and its laws shall reclaim the sanctity of your chair,” Moitra wrote. <br /></p>
<p>Unfazed by the growing demand for his resignation as chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC), Justice A K Ganguly on Wednesday continued with his duties, taking cognizance of a schoolgirl’s alleged molestation. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The girl from Howrah district was allegedly sexually harassed by one of her teachers in school. Justice Ganguly took cognizance of media reports and directed the district police superintendent to investigate the matter and file a report in four weeks.<br /><br />Justice Ganguly is facing charges of sexually harassing a law intern in a Delhi hotel last year. The retired Supreme Court judge was found guilty by a three-member committee appointed by the apex court. <br /><br />Justice Ganguly, who went on leave after the committee’s report was made public, joined work on December 13, the Howrah girl’s case being his first usual assignment since. Meanwhile, the WBHRC office was besieged by protesters demanding his resignation. <br /><br />The retired apex court judge has been facing heat from a host of political leaders, mostly from the BJP and the Trinamool Congress, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who wrote to President Pranab Mukherjee twice, demanding his removal from office. <br /><br />Upping the ante, Trinamool Congress youth leader Mahua Moitra wrote an open letter to Justice Ganguly, published in a leading English daily on Wednesday.<br /><br />In her letter, Moitra pointed out that the committee’s report “established prima facie that an act of unwelcome verbal/non-verbal conduct of a sexual nature had been committed by Justice Ganguly”. <br /><br />“The tragic irony of the chairman of a human rights commission being not only accused of the grossest of violations of a young girl’s rights but being indicted prima facie by a panel of his ex-colleagues is obvious to all of us except Justice Ganguly and a few of his ilk.<br /><br />“The statutory post you occupy today does not behoove a prevaricating sexual predator, Sir, for the last time, resign! Or this nation and its laws shall reclaim the sanctity of your chair,” Moitra wrote. <br /></p>
