Panchayat member arrested on sexual harassment charge
The Hindu
The Ullal Police on Wednesday arrested Babu Shetty, a member of Munnooru Gram Panchayat, on the charge of sexual harassment meted out to a poor woman who wanted allocation of a house site from the pan
The Ullal Police on Wednesday arrested Babu Shetty, a member of Munnooru Gram Panchayat, on the charge of sexual harassment meted out to a poor woman who wanted allocation of a house site from the panchayat.
The police said that Shetty (65) harassed the woman inside the cabin of the panchayat president’s office last month after asking her to visit the panchayat to submit her application form.
On a complaint by the woman on Wednesday, the Ullal Police registered a case under Sections 354 (assault or use of criminal force against woman with an intent to outrage her modesty) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of Indian Penal Code.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.