"How many persons in your government have lost their job on this ground? Such a decision of the state government may prove fatal for women in the future. Do not set such precedents."
The aggrieved woman took this matter to the court, which was presided by Honorable Justices Ranjana Desai and Roshan Dalvi. Having an affair ought not to be reason from dismissal from job. The Judges strongly felt that such a move could become a grave and undesirable precedent.
At Mahabeleshwar, a hill station, close to Mumbai, a teacher was terminated from her job by the zilla parishad in 2005. She was dismissed on the grounds that she had an extramarital affair and should not be around children. A division bench of Justice Ranjana Desai and Roshan Dalvi was told by the petitioner that she was appointed as anganwadi assistant in 2001; she also received an 'Ideal Anganwadi Assistant Certificate' in 2002.
Satara Deputy Chief Executive Officer has also filed an affidavit in the high court supporting the zilla parishad decision of dismissal.
The lady's lawyer alleged that the zilla parishad forced her and her husband to admit to the alleged illicit affair and obtained her signature confessing to the same.
***Justice Ranjana Desai of the Bombay High Court to the state government
Reference:
Hindustan Times, Mumbai, December 18, 2007, page 7, Urvi Mahjani
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