
Don’t even think about claiming sexual harassment if you’re a woman in the Indian Air Force. First, your charges will be dismissed. Then, you’ll be put in jail, “for your own protection.” And finally, you’ll be court-martialled on trivial charges, and convicted by a jury that, to add insult to injury, includes two senior women officers (one of whom is Air Marshal Padmavati Bandyopadhyay, the highest-ranking female officer in the Indian military).
Here’s the back-story from Mumbai’s Mid-Day:
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