New Delhi:
A young lawyer has unpacked a controversy with her
revelation that she was sexually harassed by a reputed Supreme Court
judge who she interned with in December, at a time when street protests
were expressing the nation's outrage over the fatal gang-rape of a
young student on a Delhi bus.
In her blog, posted last week, Stella James, says she was harassed by the judge in a hotel room in Delhi on Christmas Eve.
"For my supposed diligence, I was rewarded with sexual assault (not physically injurious, but nevertheless violating) from a man old enough to be my grandfather," she writes.(Read entire blog on Indian Journal of Law and Society here )
Ms James, now a lawyer with an NGO, says she decided not to take action because she had "no real ill-will towards the man, and had no desire to put his life's work and reputation in question."
Sharing the conflict she felt over not pursuing a complaint, she writes, "I bore, and still bear, no real ill-will towards the man, and had no desire to put his life's work and reputation in question. On the other hand, I felt I had a responsibility to ensure that other young girls were not put in a similar situation."
Ms James also disclosed in an interview this month Legally India, a website that covers legal news, that she knows of "at least four other girls who've faced harassment from other judges - not perhaps as [bad as mine]: most of them were in the chambers of the judge and other people around, so it never gets too bad." Read entire blog on Indian Journal of Law and Society here
In her blog, posted last week, Stella James, says she was harassed by the judge in a hotel room in Delhi on Christmas Eve.
"For my supposed diligence, I was rewarded with sexual assault (not physically injurious, but nevertheless violating) from a man old enough to be my grandfather," she writes.(Read entire blog on Indian Journal of Law and Society here )
Ms James, now a lawyer with an NGO, says she decided not to take action because she had "no real ill-will towards the man, and had no desire to put his life's work and reputation in question."
Sharing the conflict she felt over not pursuing a complaint, she writes, "I bore, and still bear, no real ill-will towards the man, and had no desire to put his life's work and reputation in question. On the other hand, I felt I had a responsibility to ensure that other young girls were not put in a similar situation."
Ms James also disclosed in an interview this month Legally India, a website that covers legal news, that she knows of "at least four other girls who've faced harassment from other judges - not perhaps as [bad as mine]: most of them were in the chambers of the judge and other people around, so it never gets too bad." Read entire blog on Indian Journal of Law and Society here
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