Calcutta High Court orders interim stay on probe linked to sexual harassment allegations against West Bengal Governor

The Calcutta High Court on Friday stayed the proceedings in a first information report lodged against Officer on Special Duty to the Governor of West Bengal Sandeep Singh for allegedly stopping a woman from filing a police complaint of sexual harassment against Governor CV Ananda Bose, reported Bar and Bench.

The complainant, a 29-year-old contractual employee at Kolkata’s Raj Bhavan, had accused Bose of inappropriately touching her on April 24 and on May 2. She wrote a complaint letter to Raj Bhavan’s officer in charge on the day of the second incident.

The single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha observed that Singh had already been granted bail in the case, registered against him by the Kolkata Police, and that the investigation against him was in its preliminary stages.