The Supreme Court deleted a direction contained in its earlier judgment that Professor Nirmal Kanti Chakrabarti, the former Vice Chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Science, should mention the dismissal of a sexual harassment complaint in his resume.

A bench comprising Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Prasanna B Varale deleted the direction in view of the fact that the sexual harassment complaint was dismissed as time-barred and that there was no finding on merits against him.

On September 12, the same bench had held that the sexual harassment complaint made by a faculty member of NUJS against the then VC was time-barred as per the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. While dismissing the complaint,

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