New Delhi, Oct. 17 -- A married officer serving in a uniformed force sending vulgar messages to a woman is "unacceptable and unbecoming," the Delhi High Court has observed, while upholding a disciplinary penalty against a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) sub-inspector found guilty of sexually harassing a female colleague.

A bench of justices Subramonium Prasad and Vimal Kumar Yadav, in a verdict released on Tuesday, affirmed the CISF's September 2016 order imposing a two-year pay reduction and a bar on increments during that period.

The order followed an internal inquiry into a complaint filed by a female CISF sub-inspector from the same unit, who accused the male officer of sending vulgar WhatsApp messages, making inappropriate...