The Maharashtra State Commission for Women (MSCW) has issued a formal notice to the dean of Mumbai’s Sir JJ Group of Hospitals for failing to submit a report on a woman professor-doctor’s complaint of mental harassment by her department head within the stipulated timeframe, news agency PTI reported.

The complainant, a professor and doctor in the department of gynaecology and obstetrics, had approached the commission on July 10, alleging continuous mental harassment and humiliating behaviour by her department head, the commission said.