New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday ordered protection from arrest of the expelled AIADMK Member of Parliament Sashikala Pushpa and her family members in an alleged sexual harassment case filed against them by their former maid servant.
A Bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justices A.M. Kanwilkar, however directed them to appear before the investigating officer in the sexual harassment case on October 3 and in the forged document case on October 7.
The Bench asked them to cooperate in the investigation and available for interrogation whenever the investigating agency wanted their presence.
When senior counsel Meenakshi Arora, appearing for the petitioners submitted that they will cooperate in the probe but they apprehended threat and physical harm when they faced the investigating officer, senior counsel Harin Raval for Tamil nadu assured the court that they will be protected and no harm will be done to them.
The Bench issued notice to the State seeking its response in four weeks to the special leave petitions against the Madurai Bench order dismissing their anticipatory bail. The Bench asked them to file their rejoinder in two weeks and directed the matter to be listed after six weeks.
The petitioners said the complaint was frivolous and nothing but political vendetta just because Sasikala raised her voice against the AIADMK leadership.
