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The Indian Air Force is studying flying officer Anjali Gupta's sexual harassment charges against three senior officers, official sources said on Monday.
Her letters to the Chief of Air Staff and the Ministry of Defence early this month will be studied by the IAF.
"Now that the MoD letter is available with us, we will study this case and forward our findings to the air headquarters," IAF training command senior personnel staff officer Group Captain Ajay Masson told journalists in Bangalore.
"Our judicial branch will study and if they find any truth in the allegations, then a fresh court martial will be ordered against those persons against whom she has made the allegations," he said.
Masson said Gupta had made sexual harassment charges in her April 7 letter to the Air Chief and the MoD, but in 'none of the 25-odd applications' had she made any charges in the last one and half years since being posted as education officer at the city-based Aircraft Systems and Testing Establishment.
"The Chief (Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi) is monitoring it (the case) on a day-to-day basis," he said.
Masson said the IAF conducted an inquiry by a senior officer in March on Gupta's February 11 complaint to the Vimanapura police about sexual harassment by the three officers at ASTE, and 'it was clearly brought out that the allegations were false'.
Gupta is the first woman IAF officer against whom the IAF has launched court martial proceedings. She is charged with financial irregularities and acts unbecoming of an officer.