Sexual harassment case against Sarna a reason for Mistry ouster?

The way in which a sexual harassment charge was handled against Indian Hotels' (IHCL) former Managing Director Rakesh Sarna could be among the biggest triggers for the ouster of Cyrus Mistry as the Chairman of Tata Group.A woman executive working with IHCL had first reported alleged harassment by Sarna in early 2015. Before she started working with Indian Hotels, she was part of Mistry's Group Executive Council from where Sarna requested she be transferred to Taj.In November 2015, she left the company. She wrote a mail to Mistry when she departed, citing sexual harassment by Sarna as the biggest reason to leave. "Mr Sarna's inappropriate behaviour outweighed the positives of the work. During my seven months employment at Taj I was subjected to repeated unwanted sexual advances from Mr Sarna. When I ignored or tried to rebuff them the environment turned hostile," she wrote in the mail.An independant panel, which was supposed to report its findings on the case in three months, failed to do so. She further adds in her mail, "I hope you are able to use my circumstances as a learning opportunity to make the group a better employer of women."Ratan Tata dissaproved the way the harassment case was handled by the then Chairman Cyrus Mistry. This could have been the biggest reasons for Mistry's dismissal, tell sources to CNBC-TV18.