NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday quashed the order of the Meghalaya State Commission for Women summoning the Delhi Golf Club secretary over a racial remark to a Khasi woman for wearing jainsem.
Justice Vibhu Bakhru held that the state women’s commission has no jurisdiction to summon the secretary of the Delhi Golf Club.
The court had on July 13 stayed the order of the state commission till further directions, saying “prima facie” there was merit in the submissions of the counsel for the club. The Delhi Golf Club had challenged the commission’s order saying the Meghalaya State Commission for Women did not have jurisdiction to issue such a direction on an incident that had happened outside the state.
Teilin Lyngdoh was asked to leave the elite club during a luncheon in June because she was wearing her traditional dress that, according to the staff at the club, looked like a maid’s dress.
The state panel had acted upon a complaint made by Lyngdoh, a governess who had accused the club and its members of racial profiling that was tantamount to racial discrimination of tribal people, a punishable offence.
Lyngdoh, along with her employer Nivedita Borthakur Sondhi, had deposed before the commission. The racial incident raised a hue and cry all over the national capital and in the region. (With inputs from PTI)
