Starting from October 15, an amusement park called Yomiuriland has opened its services for people looking for ‘workations’. Yomiuriland in Tokyo, Japan has announced that it will be offering an “Amusement Workation” package. Starting at 1,900 yen ($17.94), it is available from October 15 and will allow visitors to work poolside with access to outlets and WiFi. In addition to this, it includes an hour on the Ferris wheel where the visitors can have access to the rest of the theme park rides at an extra cost.
This is currently available only for Japanese residents and is priced at 1,900 yen ($18) for one person and 3,600 yen ($34) for a pair. What’s more is that when the workday is done, workers can check out all the other attractions inside the park, including laser tag, a botanical garden, a haunted house, Go-Karts and a roller coaster called Bandit.
It is to be noted that Yomiuriland has not issued a mask mandate for its visitors, and has merely issued an advisory to their visitors to do so. But, its counterpart, the East and West Japan Theme Park Associations, a group of theme park operators who oversee attractions like Universal Studios Japan and Tokyo Disneyland, advised that guests keep their masks on and “scream in your heart” instead.
As the whole world is grappling to come out of the pandemic, amusement parks like Yomiuriland are struggling to get back on track. While certain countries like the Maldives are offering beachfront resorts, Yomiuriland will only be able to sell those day passes to Japanese residents until the country opens up for tourism.
In an unexpected development, popular Tamil journalist Madan Ravichandran joined the BJP at the party headquarters in New Delhi in the presence of BJP National Spokesperson Sambit Patra, Karnataka Government Minister and BJP National General Secretary C.T. Ravi and Tamil Nadu BJP President Dr. L. Murugan.
While yesteryear actress and erstwhile Congress politician Khushbu Sundar joining the BJP was the talk of the town since yesterday, Madan joining the BJP has surprised many.
Madan is known for being a vocal critic of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). He recently exposed about Thiruporur DMK MLA Idhayavarman and his illegal deer hunting shenanigans, supposedly for serving deer meat to DMK chief MK Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi Stalin. This video had gone viral rattling the corridors of Arivalayam with ‘Maan Kari Udhayanidhi’ trending and Udhayanidhi Stalin filing a defamation suit against Madan Ravichandran.
After lying low for more than 6 weeks following a run-in with his earlier channel, journalist and anchor Madan Ravichandran made a come back on the night of September 15 with a video under his new Youtube channel “Madan Diary”.
Along with Madan and Kushboo, Saravanakumar IRS from Tamil Nadu also joined the BJP.
In an unprecedented move, Facebook has censored and penalised Wion News for carrying an interview with Chinese virologist Dr Li-Meng Yan who is a Chinese dissident.
Facebook has called the interview of virologist Dr Li-Meng Yan as “misleading content”.
Restricting its reach, Facebook notified that the content would be seen by less people as it has been rated ‘false’ by an ‘independent fact-checker’.
Executive Editor of WION Palki Sharma tweeted about Facebook’s move saying that WION was being censored and penalized by the social media giant for giving platform to a dissenter of Communist Party of China. “You can disagree her, debunk her. Why deny her the right to speak”, Palki Sharma questioned.
There we go again! @WIONews being censored & penalised, this time by @Facebook,for giving a platform to a CCP dissenter. How is carrying an interview with Chinese virologist Dr Li-Meng Yan “misleading content?” You can disagree with her,debunk her.Why deny her the right to speak? pic.twitter.com/LWL0yo1LFA
Dr Li-Meng Yan, an ophthalmologist and virologist in an interview with Palki Sharma had said that she was aware of the person to person transmission of COVID-19 in late December 2019.
Yan had apparently raised this problem higher up the chain of command in January 2020 and alleged that the Chinese government and the World Health Organization (WHO) knew about the person-to-person transmission of COVID-19.
According to Dr Yan, the Chinese Communist Party had been keeping tabs on her and are keeping track of her activities in New York. In an interview with US news network Fox News, Yan also said that China had detained her mother.
“This is not the first time my Mom and my other family member get arrested [sic] by the Chinese Communist party. This is the first time my Mom, a 63-year-old teacher, got arrested by the Chinese Communist Party,” she said on Tucker Carlson Tonight.
“I’m the only child in my family. My Mom has done nothing wrong. The only thing they arrest my Mom for, and send her to Beijing, is because I tell the truth of COVID-19, which Chinese government feel angry about. What they have done is try to make me silent,” she said.
Hindus in Kerala have raised strong objection and have come out in the open over the appointment of Mubarak Pasha as the Vice-Chancellor of the Sree Narayana Guru Open University.
Various Hindu organisations including the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam are protesting against the ruling LDF Government’s decision to appoint Mubarak Pasha calling him an unqualified person to be the Vice-Chancellor of the Sree Narayana Guru Open University.
The ‘Save University Campaign Committee’ said in a statement that the hasty formation of the Open University was only to accommodate the unqualified CPM supporters to various posts.
The Save University Campaign has lodged a complaint to the Chancellor of the University, Governor Arif Mohammad Khan, stating such appointments were against the rules of the University Grant Commission (UGC) and the university ordinance.
A petition has been filed for the cancellation of appointments of those who are not eligible as per the UGC rules.
PM Mubarak Pasha is currently working as the Head of Governance and Strategic Planning at Oman-based National University of Science and Technology.
It has been alleged Higher Education Minister K T Jaleel who is being grilled by the NIA for over his alleged involvement in the Kerala gold smuggling scam, handpicked Pasha.
Vellappally Natesan, general secretary of SNDP, which was founded by Sree Narayana Guru, said the appointment of an NRI as VC on the insistence of Minister KT Jaleel, has hurt the ‘Sreenarayaneeya’ community.
Natesan said, “It is highly deplorable that the government repeated its stand of shooing away the backward community from seats of power. The appointment of V-C has left the community dejected. It has defeated the very purpose of establishing a university and thus blackened the image of the Left government.”
The BJP has also joined the protest against the Government and BJP State President, K Surendran, said the appointment of Dr Mubarak Pasha as V-C was meant to further vote-bank politics.
The demand to unite the seven sub-groups and be called by the name of Devendra Kula Vellalar is seeming to near victory. It is being said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Edappadi K Palaniswami have spoken on the phone regarding the Devendrakula Vellalar Government Order and is expected to be announced in a few days.
BJP leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Tamil Nadu BJP President Dr. L. Murugan, have extended their support to the demand of Devendra Kula Vellalar community for a long time. Earlier, BJP leader Amit Shah attended a meeting organized by the Devendrar Federation in Madurai in this regard and extend support to their demands.
Recently, several Tamil Nadu political party leaders, including the DMK, BJP and Congress, have called on the Tamil Nadu government to accept the demand of the Devendra Kula Vellalar community and issue a decree.
The Devendrakula Vellalars have been asking for regrouping of Pallar, Pannadi, Kudumbar, Kaalaadi, Kadaiyar, Mooppar and Devendrakulathar under one title – ‘Devendra Kula Vellalar’. Parties like Puthiya Tamilagam headed by Dr. Krishnaswamy have also asked for the removal of the community from the list of Scheduled Caste.
Devendra Kula Vellalars even boycotted the entire Nanguneri Assembly by-election held last year as their demands were not fulfilled.
A committee headed by Dr. S. Sumathi, Professor and Head of Anthropology Department, Madras University was set up to look into the matter following a request made to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palanisami.
Even after the committee submitted its report to the Tamil Nadu government, there were complaints that the Tamil Nadu government was delaying sending it to the central government. Meanwhile, another one-man commission headed by IAS officer Hansraj Verma submitted a report to the Tamil Nadu government.
On July 4, Tamil Nadu BJP President Dr. L. Murugan said, “The Tamil Nadu government should send the report to the central government immediately. As the Central Government has accepted this request, we will take immediate action as soon as we receive the report from the Government of Tamil Nadu. The long standing demand of Devendra Kula Vellalar will be fulfilled.”
Congress leader KS Alagiri had issued a statement in this regard and urged to take appropriate action.
Manik Tagore, a Congress MP from Virudhunagar on September 20, said, “The Devendrakula Vellalars are the largest population in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu. These are called by seven branch names. These are agricultural citizens based on agriculture. There is inscriptional evidence of water management and agriculture. It is the demand of this community that these seven sub-castes be collectively known as Devendra Kula Vellalar. The Government of Tamil Nadu has appointed a commission headed by Hansraj IAS for this and the report has been submitted to the Tamil Nadu government. But the Tamil Nadu government is delaying this. The Central government’s social justice department must intervene. ”
A hunger strike was held on October 6 in 10,000 villages inhabited by Devendrakula Vellalar farmers spearheaded by Puthiya Tamilagam Party asking for the removal of the community from the Scheduled Caste list and also for the regrouping of the community as ‘Devendrakula Vellalars’.
The hashtag #RemoveUsFromSceduledCaste said to be initiated by the party’s youth wing leader Dr. Shyam Krishnaswamy trended for the day.
Mass media blackout on today’s simultaneous hunger strikes in >10,000 villages demanding to delist Devendra Kula Velalars from scheduled caste. Not surprised! How else will they propagate their ‘dalit victim’ narrative forever.
On October 8, John Pandian, belonging to the Devendrakula Vellalar community and leader of the Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam met CM Palaniswami to congratulate him on being declared as AIADMK’s Chief Minister candidate for the 2021 Assembly elections.
2021சட்டமன்ற பொதுத்தேர்தலில் அதிமுக சார்பில் முதல்வர் வேட்பாளராக அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள தமிழக முதல்வர் திரு.எடப்பாடி.பழனிச்சாமி அவர்களை முகாம் அலுவலகத்தில் சந்தித்து வாழ்த்துக்களை தெரிவித்தேன்.பின்னர் தேர்தலுக்கு முன் தேவேந்திரகுலவேளாளர் அரசாணை வெளியிட வலியுறுத்தினேன்.@dinathanthipic.twitter.com/uQQA6nTcpy
During this meeting, John Pandian is said to have put in a word with the CM to fulfil the demands of the community who is said to have given a positive assurance.
Meanwhile on October 7, head of the Devendrar Voluntary Trust M. Thangaraj who was instrumental in bringing Home Minister Amit Shah to the Madurai meeting has said that the government will come out with a GO on October 15.
The Telangana government is all set to reserve 50% of seats in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation polls that are to take place shortly. The 1955 GHMC Act is being amended to provide for this reservation that will allot 75 out of the total 150 seats to women candidates.
The Cabinet also decided to amend laws to provide for changes in the functions of municipal ward committees and reservation of wards. The deadline for online uploading of information about landed properties has been extended by 10 days up to October 20. It also discussed the Integrated Township Policy under the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA).
It also went on to amend the laws to manage the paddy procurement issues that occur year after year. The Cabinet resolved that there is to be no deadline for these purchases and that the government is to continue till the last grain is procured from farmers in the Kharif harvest.
The Cabinet approved another Bill allowing the people to apply online for converting their agriculture land into non-agriculture land under the Non-Agricultural Lands Assessment Act (NALA). While this had been existing in an offline format, this has now been altered to suit the current scenario and operate in the absence of a human interface.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched Aadhar-like property cards for people living in rural areas under the SVAMITVA Scheme.
Under this initiative, every cardholder will get a unique identity number like Aadhar. This will enable 100,000 property owners to download property cards by means of an SMS link. This will enable villagers to use their property as a financial asset for taking loans and other financial benefits. Besides giving more financial power to rural property owners, this scheme is also expected to resolve longstanding property disputes.
The cards will also be physically distributed by the respective State Governments.
This will be the first-ever large-scale project involving a lot of modern means of technology that will benefit millions of rural property owners.
The beneficiaries are from 763 villages across six states including Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Karnataka. These six states have already signed an MoU with Survey of India and the rural properties will be mapped via drone surveys.
The first phase of the scheme will be implemented in 2020-21 and will cover 1 lakh villages in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, and few border villages of Punjab and Rajasthan. The scheme will be expanded over a period of four years and by 2024 and will eventually cover 6.62 lakh villages.
India’s first-ever hydrogen fuel cell prototype car successfully completed its trial run on Sunday which was conducted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and KPIT Technologies.
It is a battery-electric passenger car platform and runs on an indigenously developed fuel cell stack.
This technology runs based on the chemical reactions that take place between hydrogen and oxygen to generate electrical energy and could potentially eliminate fossil fuels. It is also a clean fuel because it doesn’t emit harmful greenhouse gases. It only lets out water as a by-product.
The fuel cell is a low-temperature PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) type that operates at 65-75 degrees Celsius, which is suitable for vehicular applications. CSIR and KPIT have developed a 10 kW-e (Kilowatt-electric) automotive grade LT-PEMFC (low-temperature PEM fuel cell) stack based on CSIR’s know-how. The heart of the PEM fuel cell technology includes the membrane electrode assembly, which is wholly a CSIR know-how.
“KPIT brought in their expertise in stack engineering which included light-weight metal bipolar plate and gasket design, development of the balance of plant (BoP), system integration, control software and electric powertrain that enabled running the fuel cell vehicle. The fuel cell stack uses extremely thin metal bipolar plates, thus reducing the stack weight by about two-thirds,” a statement released by the CSIR said.
Another Hindu temple has been vandalised in the Kario Bhanwar region of Sindh in Imran Khan’s ‘Naya Pakistan’. The temple which is dedicated to Lord Ram was razed down by local Islamists.
The Hindu minority of this region has been a constant victim of attacks from Islamists. There have even been forced conversions of Hindu girls and several cases of sexual assault.
This has been taken cognizance by the Justice For Minorities In Pakistan group, and the country’s own Human rights Commission. A press release by the former said, “I strongly condemn the brutal act of vandalism committed against Shri Ram Mandir in Badin Sindh Pakistan on 10 October. Out of 428, only 20 mandirs are left in Sindh.” In this light, one of the persons who had been responsible for the desecration has been arrested. Local police registered an FIR on the incident and arrested Muhammad Ismail Sheedi, a local, who was named by complainant Ashok Kumar as the person believed to have caused the desecration.
In a similar incident that happened a few months ago, an entire village of Hindus in Bhawalpur had been mindlessly demolished under the watch of Pakistan’s Housing Minister Tariq Basheer Cheema who belongs to the Imran Khan-led government.
Islamabad has been far and wide, a perpetrator of human rights and there have been several continuous attacks on religious minorities. This includes forced conversions, rapes, killings and demolition of the houses of Pakistani Hindus, Sikhs and Christians. Even the Ahmadiyyas and Shias of the Islam community face a similar plight.
Imagine an ordinary middle class woman slogging at work every day, bringing laurels to the institution and yet the very same institution throws her out for complaining against sexual harassment by her higher-ups. Josephine Jeyashanthi’s story is about a lone woman’s fight against an extremely powerful establishment that is hell bent on protecting a bunch of sexual predators.
Loyola College, Chennai, a Jesuit Institution, considered as one of the top colleges in the state as well as the country, which has churned out several noteworthy alumni, is turning out to be a den of sexual harassment where vulnerable women are preyed on and the harassers who are mostly professors or Jesuit priests go scot free.
Earlier, The Commune had published about the Mary Rajasekharan case in which the survivor who was an administrator in the college, was sexually harassed by Father Xavier Alphonse, the then Director of Loyola Alumni Association.
This case too is similar but happened much before and is even more disturbing.
Background
Josephine Jeyashanthi joined Loyola College, Chennai as a lecturer in the Department of Media Arts in June 2006. She was later shifted to Department of Tamil in June 2007 without any written order. She was on probation for two years and her service was confirmed by the Loyola management in 2009.
Josephine was a dedicated professor and had brought several accolades to the college. It was during her period as in-charge of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) that the college won the national event and also the SIFE World Cup both in 2007 at New York and in 2010 at Los Angeles. She also struck a chord with the students with her teaching. She had also worked in many programmes aimed at improving the lives of the downtrodden.
Trouble started when Dr. S. Antony Rajarajan (referred to as SA Rajarajan) became the head of the Tamil department. “Right from the beginning Rajarajan used to behave rudely with me. He would throw the leave application on my face when I request for leave. He would insult me in front of others using abusive language. I was subjected to harassment every single day.”, Josephine narrated to The Commune.
Rajarajan had even compelled her to enrol herself as a research student ‘under his guidance’ which Josephine rejected categorically. But he kept insisting despite her rejection. Josephine said that, he even asked her to come and stay with him in a lodge in a manner so disturbing that it haunts her till date.
He changed her workstation at the college inside his cabin and compelled her to sit there and work. Josephine said that Rajarajan would frequent her seat in SIFE office and try to make advances on her and had once told her “You are lying dry and bare without a husband, better succumb to my desire”.
He even made obscene remarks like “There is a hole in your body, I know how to plug it” in front of her colleagues.
“That is the level of obscenity I had to endure”, Josephine said.
Since Josephine did not yield to his advances, Rajarajan made false complaints about her to the college management saying that she was not doing her job properly. He created a hostile environment for her to work causing mental agony to her. This one time things went so bad that Antony Rajarajan flung a chair at her making her fall down. One of the students who witnessed the event is later said to have hospitalized her. This incident was also recorded by that student when he deposed before the committee constituted to enquire about Josephine’s sexual harassment case.
Victimising the victim
Josephine had lodged a sexual harassment complaint against Antony Rajarajan with the internal complaints committee in December 2012. Two months before that, the department staff complained of Rajarajan indulging in corrupt practices in the college. In that complaint related to corruption, a reference to him sexually harassing staff members was also made. However, Josephine who was asked to depose before the committee inquiring the corruption charges, did not bring up the issue of sexual harassment as she was clear that only an exclusive committee constituted for the purpose should investigate Rajarajan on the sexual harassment matter.
After she made the complaint with the anti-sexual harassment committee in December 2012, she was intimidated by the college management for filing the complaint. Albert Williams, the Secretary of Loyola College had asked her to withdraw the complaint but Josephine said that she would consider withdrawing if Antony Rajarajan gave her a written apology.
But, Antony Rajarajan was on to something else. He circulated across the entire campus a highly derogatory note consisting of more than 60 false accusations about Josephine. Rajarajan had resorted to this move because the committee had informed that they would be giving space ‘to accommodate Rajarajan’s view’ on the matter which is completely against the norms mandated by Vishaka Guidelines issued by the Supreme Court. Even after bringing this to light, the committee failed to take any action on Rajarajan for his act. Thus, the Loyola management had in effect committed an illegal act by paving way for slander of the victim.
The Loyola management tried to stall the enquiry against Rajarajan by not allowing the committee to proceed. Josephine made several oral representations and followed it up with multiple emails asking for a fair enquiry. But the management only tried supress the issue by constituting committees after committees. They had resorted to seeking a legal opinion on whether only a committee set as per the Vishaka Guidelines should inquire into the matter. Even after the advocate giving the opinion that the complaint should be enquired only by an exclusive anti-sexual harassment committee, Rev. G. Joseph Antony Samy S.J., who would go on to become the Principal of the college, asked Josephine to withdraw her complaint. Josephine refused and stood her ground.
In February 2013, the Principal had issued a letter stating that the internal complaints committee would proceed with the enquiry. However, it never happened. Instead, the Principal issued another letter on 5th March 2013 that included Rajarajan’s slanderous letter on Josephine thus trying to return the complaint back to her.
After her persistent efforts, the anti-sexual harassment committee conducted the enquiry on March 19, 2013. The committee submitted its report to the management on March 23, 2013.
However, this report was not served to Josephine as mandated by the Vishaka Guidelines and Sexual Harassment at Workplace Act, and neither did the Loyola management take any action on the accused.
Meanwhile, Josephine had to put up with further harassment from other authorities like Father Xavier Alphonse, the main accused in the Mary Rajasekharan case, who had made remarks like “Why is this woman still here?” whenever he came across Josephine in the college premises.
In August 2013, the new Principal of Loyola College Rev. G. Joseph Antony Samy S.J., set up another committee consisting of four lady staff – Prof. Rebecca George, Prof. Judith, Prof. Chithra and Prof. Sri Kumari. They had insisted on a compromise and apparently asked Josephine “what she was expecting”.
While the Vishaka Guidelines mandate that the victim be granted leave during the period of enquiry, it turned out to be the other way around here. The perpetrator Antony Rajarajan was given two months medical leave by the Loyola management. During this period, Antony Rajarajan joined hands with another professor named A. Prince and further harassed Josephine. A. Prince, who studied in Loyola and later joined the college as a lecturer was said to be a rowdy even during his student days. He along with Antony Rajarajan conspired to make an attempt on Josephine’s life at the Nungambakkam Railway Station which was foiled, thanks to the tip-off received by Josephine.
Finally Rev. G. Joseph Antony Samy, who calls Josephine as ‘magale’ (daughter in Tamil) in a condescending tone, asked her to go to the court.
Loyola College and their absolute disregard for law and courts
Josephine filed a case at the Madras High Court (WP No. 34958/2013) seeking a copy of the internal complaints committee’s final report and asking the Registrar of University of Madras and Principal of Loyola College to take disciplinary against Antony Rajarajan and A. Prince for the sexual harassment meted out to her with an interim prayer for the protection of her job.
She had lodged a complaint with the police against Rajarajan and Prince but the police were not registering an FIR. So, she went ahead and filed a Criminal Original Petition (CRL OP No. 4427/2014) asking the court to direct the police to file an FIR against the perpetrators.
Immediately after this, on 28th February 2014, Josephine was terminated from her service without prior notice and no valid reason. When she confronted the college management asking for the reason of her termination, the Secretary of Loyola College Albert Williams told her that this was a ‘Christian minority institution’ and that they don’t need to give anybody any reason. That afternoon, she was humiliated in front of students and hounded out of the college.
The police had come to the college to enquire about the incident. However, the professors at the college were threatened by the management to not disclose anything as it would show the college in ‘bad light’.
Meanwhile, Loyola College Secretary Albert Williams informed the court that the verbal sexual harassment was made out by the internal complaints committee and that the college management imposed a punishment of ‘censure’ on Antony Rajarajan. They had submitted the punishment order copy of the punishment as proof. On the other hand, Secretary Albert Williams had given in writing to the police in response to the Criminal Original Petition that the ‘sexual harassment never happened’ and made false accusations saying that ‘Josephine and Rajarajan were good friends’ who got ‘separated due to some issue’. Principal Rev. G. Joseph Antony Samy too wrote the same in his letter to the police. Both Joseph Antony Samy and Albert Williams only blamed Josephine that ‘she was trying to take revenge’.
Rev. Fr. Albert Williams’ letter to the policeRev. Fr. Joseph Antony Samy’s letter to the police
So, the Loyola College management had given different versions to the court and the police. Also, the management had submitted to the police the report given by the committee that enquired the corruption charges on Rajarajan and not the report of the internal complaints committee constituted for inquiring the sexual harassment charges.
Thus, Loyola College management had not just misled the police by lying but also deliberately submitted a false report to manipulate the case. Josephine is now in the process of slapping a criminal case on Loyola College management that includes Rev. Joseph Antony Samy, Albert Williams, Roseline (member of the internal complaints committee), Revathy Roberts apart from the perpetrators Antony Rajarajan and Prince.
The crimes committed by Loyola College
The offence was committed by Rajarajan in 2008 and continued till Josephine’s termination. However the complaint on the accused was taken into cognizance by the internal complaints committee only in December 2012. Section 11 (4) of The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013 says that an enquiry into the complaint shall be completed within a period of 90 days. The Vishaka Guideline mandate that the grievance be addressed in a time bound manner. However, it took 8 months to ‘censure’ the accused. Also, it took them 6 years to submit the report to the court.
Not just that, the then Secretary Rev. Fr. M. Albert Williams S.J and the then Principal Rev. Fr. G. Joseph Antony Samy S.J have lied to the police.
On top of that, the offender Antony Rajarajan who has been accused of sexual harassment was not only protected by the Loyola College management but was also given privileges like superannuation with salary while the victim was further victimised and terminated from the job.
Will Josephine get justice?
On 25th October 2019, the Madras High Court gave an order in favour of Josephine allowing her to initiate further action against the culprits in accordance with the law. An interim order was given on 16th June 2020 that directed the Loyola College management to not give any employee/retirement benefits for Antony Rajarajan and also to provide compensation to the Josephine within 60 days. But this has not been done. Josephine has now pinned her hopes on the judiciary to get justice.
This is the second case that has come to light from Loyola College, although this happened much before the Mary Rajasekharan case. But the pattern seems to be similar in both the cases – verbally and sexually harass women, make it impossible for them to get relief through internal complaints committee, victimise the victim by inflicting torture and agony, and finally throw them out of the job without even settling payments. This seems to be the pattern institutionalized by the institution.
Hence, it is pertinent to ask the larger question – How safe is Loyola College for women?
