{"id":232584,"date":"2020-07-21T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=232584"},"modified":"2020-08-07T12:38:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T07:08:03","slug":"sri-lanka-sc-upholds-indictment-and-non-reinstatement-of-colombo-university-senior-lecturer-accused-of-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/07\/21\/sri-lanka-sc-upholds-indictment-and-non-reinstatement-of-colombo-university-senior-lecturer-accused-of-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka SC upholds indictment and non-reinstatement of Colombo University senior lecturer accused of sexual harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Supreme Court of Sri Lanka:<\/strong>\u00a0 A Full Bench of\u00a0 Buwaneka Aluwihare PC, P. Padman Surasena and E A G R Amarasekara JJ upheld the indictment of a senior lecturer of the University of Colombo, holding that his indictment and subsequent non-reinstatement by the University\u2019s disciplinary authority does not violate his Fundamental Rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\"> The petitioner was the Head of the Department (HoD) of Mass Media and Senior Lecturer at the University at the time of his indictment. Many members of the academic staff had written complaints against him, two lady probationers working under him had accused him of sexual harassment and abuse of authority, and six other senior lecturers had made a joint complaint setting out his alleged unacceptable general conduct. After a preliminary investigation by the university, he was indicted and the disciplinary committee\u2019s charge sheet charged him with sexual harassment, engagement in discriminatory practices and creation of a hostile work environment for the complainant-probationers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\"> The petitioner contended that the probationer\u2019s complaints were fake and that his indictment and non-reinstatement violated several provisions of the University Establishments Code. He claimed that the respondents had acted illegally, unreasonably and beyond their powers in indicting him and not reinstating him after the completion of one year since his indictment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Court dismissed all but one of the petitioner\u2019s claims on the grounds that he did not file the instant application regarding his contentions about the falsity of the probationers\u2019 complaints, the arbitrariness of his interdiction and the transcendence of the disciplinary proceedings beyond the valid period within the one-month period specified in Article 126(2) of the Constitution. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">With respect to the claim about his reinstatement, however, the Court found the infringement of his rights to be of a continuing nature, and thus, not time-barred. It applied a provision in a Public Administration Circular dated 30-12-2011, which stated that if a disciplinary authority failed to conclude its proceedings and issue an order within one year, it would have the discretion to reinstate the accused officer and pay him his salary. Since the authority clearly enjoys this discretion, the petitioner\u2019s non-reinstatement cannot be taken to mean a violation of his Fundamental Rights to equal protection of the law under Article 12(1) of the Constitution. In view of the fact that reinstating him, while the two probationary-lecturers, who testified against him served under him, would not be in the best interests of justice, the Court held that the \u201cnon-reinstatement of the Petitioner by his disciplinary authority cannot be viewed as a wrong exercise of the discretion by the said disciplinary authority.\u201d Appeal was dismissed in the above-view. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">[W M P N Weerasinghe v. University of Colombo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/H8D0EYu5\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine SL SC 2<\/b><\/a> , decided on 20-07-2020]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of Sri Lanka:\u00a0 A Full Bench of\u00a0 Buwaneka Aluwihare PC, P. 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