The Delhi High Court has recently ordered the reinstatement of a dismissed Border Security Force (BSF) constable, who was removed from service over alleged sexual harassment charges, observing that the authority concerned failed to consider the crucial evidence of CCTV footage.

Justices C Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla described the “omission” of the authority concerned as a strike at the heart of the constable’s right to fair trial and defence and termed it as a “serious procedural irregularity”, particularly when there was no other direct evidence or eye witnesses of the alleged incident.

“The aforesaid omission strikes at the heart of a petitioner’s opportunity to enter into effective defence and his right to fair trial and, in any case, shakes the very foundational fact alleg

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