WRIT - A No. 6131 of 2025 at Allahabad

AFR Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:92288 Court No. - 4 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 6131 of 2025 Petitioner :- Shailendra Kumar Rai Respondent :- State Of Uttar Pradesh And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Siddharth Khare Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Ghan Shyam Yadav Hon'ble Ajit Kumar,J. 1. Heard Shri Ashok Khare, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Siddharth Khare, learned counsel for petitioner, Shri Shambhavi Nanda, learned Advocate holding brief of Shri Ghan Shyam Yadav, learned counsel for respondents and learned Standing Counsel. 2. Petitioner who is posted and working as District Programme Officer, Kushinagar has invoked extraordinary and equitable jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution to assail the order of suspension passed against him by the Chief Secretary Child Development and Nutrition, Uttar Pradesh basically on following three grounds: (i) The words spoken to the aggrieved woman does not amount so sexual harassment in relation to her workplace more especially in the light of the statement of the aggrieved woman herself recorded before the internal complaint committee. (ii) The internal complaint committee was not duly constituted as