“No Will To Live”: UP Judge Alleges Sexual Harassment, Requests CJI’s Permission To End Life. Where Are Women Safe?
This boils our blood!
Women’s safety in this country has always been a questionable debate. Be it on the streets, in homes or at workplaces, a great percentage of women face harassment, which goes missing in reports. Just recently, an open letter by an UP-based female civil judge accusing a senior judge of sexual harassment has left us surprised. Putting a spotlight on the same, CJI D Y Chandrachud has requested a report after the opening later goes viral on the internet.
Speaking about the same, CJI mentioned that the woman has sought his permission to “end her life,” through the letter. The letter accuses a senior district judge and his associates of sexual harassment during her tenure in UP’s Barabanki. She has requested to end her life in a dignified manner, as she wishes to not live anymore. In the letter, she mentioned–”I have been sexually harassed to the very limit. I have been treated like utter garbage. I feel like an unwanted insect.” She also spoke about the times she filed a complaint against the senior judge, but received no response. Furthermore, she also spoke about the enquiry started by the Internal Complaints Committee of the High Court in July 2023, when she religiously filed multiple complaints. But that too seemed like a fake investigation and she had no hopes left.
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The letter sadly mentioned that the victim has no hope to live, “I have been rendered to a walking corpse in the last year and a half. There is no purpose in carrying this soulless and lifeless body around anymore. There is no purpose left in my life.” Following up on this, the CJI has instructed the Supreme Court Secretary General, to write to the registrar general of the Allahabad High Court, to dig out complaint letters written by the victim. Through the letter, she pictures the sad reality of the system and says how she, who is expected to fight for other women, isn’t able to do the same for herself. And our question is, where on earth are women safe? Do they need to write such open letters, declaring their decision to commit suicide, just to get justice? Where is the law?
