Physicist abandons lawsuit against NRC Canada

Ottawa Citizen : After a quarter century of courtroom battles, Chander Grover, a physicist and former manager of the National Research Council of Canada, has agreed to abandon his last remaining lawsuit against the NRC. Born in India, Grover first complained of unfair discrimination at the NRC in 1987. In 1992 he won a landmark human rights case against the council, whose managers were shown to have “thwarted his advancement, humiliated him, unfairly fired him, then tried to intimidate witnesses from testifying on his behalf,” writes Andrew Duffy for the Ottawa Citizen. Grover then proceeded to file four more human rights complaints against the NRC and was dismissed in July 2007 for “medical incapacity.” Last year Grover underwent cancer treatments. “It’s impossible at my age to continue and with all of the health problems I’m facing and my wife is facing,” he said. “It’s important, but what can I do?” He now plans to write a book about his experience.