Probe DAE staff's caste discrimination claim, Mumbai court to cops

A magistrate court in Mumbai Monday directed the Colaba Police to probe a complaint filed by an employee of the central government's Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) alleging discrimination at work place as she belonged to a Scheduled Caste.

The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court sought a probe report from the police at the earliest.

The court was hearing a complaint filed by Neelima Kadam (52) on May 10, alleging, among other things, that she had been denied a role fit for her at the DAE, and that she had been "demoted" at her job.

In her complaint, Kadam said she joined the DAE in 1988 as a junior stenographer under the SC quota and was dealing, for the last 10-12 years, with work on press releases, public hearings, exhibitions conducted by the department.

In September 2016, she was promoted to the post of Personal Assistant, but since she had a degree in mass communication, she had requested the department to give her some "media related" post, she said, adding that .