NEW DELHI: With the #MeToo campaign gaining strength across the country, nine women employees of All India Radio's Shahdol station in Madhya Pradesh have gone public with their complaints of sexual harassment against the station's assistant director (programming), Ratnakar Bharti.Despite a police complaint against him, and the Internal Complaint Committee of AIR declaring him guilty a year back, Bharti remains stationed at present, at the AIR headquarters in New Delhi, though apparently under the "strictest vigilance watch".Meanwhile, the services of the nine women-all casual broadcasters-have since been terminated.Similar instances of sexual harassment have also been received from Dharamshala, Obra, Sagar, Rampur, Kurukshetra and Delhi stations. In each case, the AIR employee union has claimed that while the accused have been let off with as just a warning, complainants - all casual broadcasters - have been asked to leave.Speaking to TOI, director general All India Radio, Fayyaz Shehryar, said, "Every incident that has been reported has been probed by the Internal Complaints Committee. In the Shahdol instance, after the ICC verdict, Ratnakar Bharti was transferred immediately from Shahdol and he remains under the strictest vigilance watch at the DG Headquarters."Bharti is also facing proceedings under section FR 56(j) of the Central Civil Services Pension Rules notified by the department of personnel and training (DoPT), where he may be compulsorily retired.Shehryar, however, denied there was any link between the the lodging of complaint against Bharti and the services of the women being terminated. "The review of casual broadcasters is an annual affair where poor performers are weeded out following a three-tiered process. Those who are left out tend to make this an ego issue. We cannot overlook a rule to benefit any individual," Shehryar said.The Shahdol case, however, along with similar complaints from six other AIR stations, has become the basis on which the All India Radio trade union has formally moved Prasar Bharati chief executive Shashi Shekhar Vempati, urging him to reinstate complainants and take the strictest possible action against the accused persons.In a letter to Vempati where they plead "WeToo in MeToo", the All India Radio Trade Union employees said, "It is very unfortunate that in most of the cases after making such complaints the victims have been further subjected to harassment and have even been "fired". Also, in many instances, victims' entry to their respective AIR stations has been banned while the officials against whom such complaints are made go scot-free and enjoy their jobs."The trade union has demanded, on behalf of the complainants, that the PB CEO "look into the matter seriously, reinstate these victims, compensate them for their loss and ensure that strictest possible punishment is meted out to such officials".