Associate Professor Alleges harassment by Seniors : HC orders Inquiry
Bengaluru: In order to investigate the allegations surfaced via a petition filed by a government doctor, who alleged harassment at her workplace while also alleging irregularities in a government hospital’s administration, the Karnataka high court has issued notices to the state government and other authorities.
The petition was filed by one Dr Alkarani T. Patil, an Associate Professor at the state-run Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH), who alleged that she is being ‘harassed, bullied and discriminated against’ by a senior colleague and the medical superintendent who allegedly ‘uses filthy, abusive words against her in front of her colleagues... and has deliberately isolated her from her colleagues by threatening them’, reports The Hindu.
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