Civil Writ Petition No.21046 of 2010 -1- *** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.21046 of 2010 Date of decision: 25.4.2011 Anand Parkash ...Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE AJAY KUMAR MITTAL Present: Mr. R.S. Bains, Advocate for the petitioner ADARSH KUMAR GOEL, J. 1. This Petition seeks a direction for investigation/inquiry and prosecution of the officials alleged to be involved in sexual harassment of the women employees. 2. Case of the petitioner is that he is retired Chief Engineer and has been high lighting the cases of alleged harassment. It came to his notice that there are some cases in the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board in which reports were made but no action was taken thereon. On 26.11.2010, the following order was passed:- “In this petition, the petitioner has relied upon three complaints, first made by Ms. Anima Goel, second made by Smt. Anu Gupta and third made by Smt. Usha Rani regarding sexual harassments. Except the incident with Ms. Anima Goel, we are not satisfied that other two complaints warrant any action Civil Writ Petition No.21046 of 2010 -2- *** in respect of the incidents complained of. Since the person likely to be affected by the result of this petition has not been joined as party, learned counsel for the petitioner seeks time to implead the said person as party-respondent.” 3. We have heard learned counsel for the petitioner. 4. We are of the view that instead of proceeding further in the matter, it would be appropriate to direct the Chief Administrator, Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, Panchkula to look into the matter of one incident mentioned in the above order and take appropriate action as may be considered necessary. The decision may be taken within two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and conveyed to the petitioner. 5. The writ petition is disposed of. (Adarsh Kumar Goel) Judge April 25, 2011 (Ajay Kumar Mittal) Pka Judge