The Court made the following Order:

(per Hon’ble Sri Justice R. Raghunandan Rao)

The petitioner herein had been appointed as an attender, on 06.07.1995, in the Junior Civil Judge, Mummadivaram, on compassionate basis. He had been promoted as Field Assistant and was working in the Court of the II Additional District Judge, Amalapuram, at the time of his dismissal from service. A complainant, working as a lady attender on outsourcing basis, in the Mandal Legal Services Committee, Kothapeta, had filed a complaint against the petitioner, stating that, on 01.10.2017, the petitioner had outraged the modesty of the complainant, while she was on duty, in the Court premises at Kothapeta. The specific complaint was that the petitioner had caught hold of the hand of the complainant and had forcibly pulled the saree of the complainant while catching hold of her hair and breast and thereby outraged the modesty of the complainant. On the basis of this complaint, which had been filed on 04.10.2017, the Senior Civil Judge, Kothapeta, had forwarded the complaint to the Station House Officer, Kothapeta Police Station as well as the Chairman-cum-Principal District Judge, Rajamahendravaram. The complain