Kolkata: West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman Justice (retd) Ashok Kumar Ganguly, indicted by a Supreme Court judges' committee for “conduct of sexual nature”, has taken suo motu cognisance of a case of outraging the modesty of a young girl.
“Considering the seriousness of the incident, the Commission, comprising chairman Justice AK Ganguly and member Naparajit Mukherjee, has taken suo motu cognisance of the matter and directed the SP, Howrah (rural) to cause an investigation by a responsible officer and send the report to the Commission within four weeks,” WBHRC registrar Rabindranath Samanta told PTI here today.
Justice Ganguly, who did not go to the WBHRC headquarters at Bhabani Bhavan for some days after the three-judge committee's report saying that he committed “unwelcome behaviour” towards a woman law intern was made public, has been attending office since Friday and the cognisance was taken after a meeting of the Commission yesterday, WBHRC sources said.
Samanta said that the incident occurred on Saturday afternoon at Uluberia in Howrah district when three girl students of Kalinagar High School were returning home from school.
