NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday sought a report on the ill-treatment of Tailin Lyngdoh at Delhi Golf Club, sources here said.
“The Prime Minister’s Office also wants to know what action the Urban Development Ministry will take against the club to ensure that such an incident is not repeated,” the source said.
The golf course is built on the land given by the ministry at a concession and allows it to have a say in the affairs of the club.
On June 25, two staff members of the club had asked the 51-year-old woman from Meghalaya to leave because she was “looking like a maid” in her Jainsem.
The ministry has already sought a report from the club.
M Venkaiah Naidu said on Wednesday his ministry would issue an advisory on how the club staff should behave. The club has tendered a guarded apology, which was not accepted by the victims.
The club, on the directions of the ministry, has also set up a three-member independent inquiry committee headed by retired justice Mukul Mudgal to look into charges of discrimination.
However, Nivedita Barthakur Sondhi, the employer of Lyngdoh, said a non-official inquiry would be counter-productive.
“We think that any such inquiry by a non-official committee would be counter-productive and disrespectful to the due process that has been or will be initiated by the governmental and quasi-judicial bodies under law,” Sondhi said in a statement.
She said they have submitted a statement giving an account of the incident to Union Minister Kiren Rijiju.
“We will continue to co-operate with all governmental and quasi-judicial agencies in aiding the completion of the inquiry into this incident,” she added.
Condemning the incident, both Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and Rijiju had termed the incident as a “clear case of racial discrimination” and asked Delhi Police commissioner Amulya Patnaik to investigate the matter.
