KOLKATA: The Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of the Calcutta High Court has directed the District Inspector of Schools (Secondary) in Jalpaiguri to submit a detailed report on the alleged humiliation of a woman school teacher by the chairman of her institution’s managing committee, who also heads the Trinamool Congress–run Jalpaiguri Municipality.
Justice Kaushik Chanda passed the order on Friday, but the copy of the order in the matter was uploaded on Saturday morning.
A video had gone viral earlier this month where Jalpaiguri Municipality chairman, Saikat Chatterjee, was seen forcing the woman teacher attached to Suniti Bala Sadar Girls High School in Jalpaiguri district to perform sit-ups, holding her ears inside the school premises.
The Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, had shared this video on his social media handles and claimed that humiliation of women in the workplace, largely at the hands of grassroots leaders of the Trinamool Congress, has become rampant in West Bengal.