Gandhi is likely to ask for a June-end deadline to complete the probe into a crew member’s claims that an Air India executive sexually harassed several employees.
New Delhi: Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi is expected to urge her colleague Suresh Prabhu to fast-track the inquiry into an Air India crew member’s sexual harassment complaint against a senior airline executive, ThePrint has learnt.
In a fresh letter to the civil aviation minister Monday, Gandhi is likely to ask that the inquiry be completed within June.
The decision was reportedly made after Gandhi met the complainant, who has worked with Air India for 30 years, in Delhi Monday morning.
After the complainant wrote to Prabhu and Gandhi last week about the case and the matter went public on social media, the civil aviation minister ordered the Air India chief managing director to investigate the allegations.
Two days later, the complainant wrote a fresh letter to the ministers, requesting a personal meeting and naming the executive who allegedly harassed her and several other employees.
The complainant had also said she was “shocked” that a day after her letter, Air India had promoted the women’s cell chairperson, despite the fact that she had allegedly trivialised her complaint.
It was after the second letter that she was asked to meet Gandhi.
Sources close to the complainant, who declined to speak to the media on the meeting, had earlier said she was willing to take the legal route and “fight this till the end”.