Set up sexual harassment probe panels in courts: Supreme Court -Krishnadas Rajagopal

-The Hindu

Committees should be consituted within two months, High Court Chief Justices told.

The Supreme Court on Friday asked Chief Justices of High Courts across the country to set up anti-sexual harassment at workplace committees in High Courts and district courts within two months

A three-judge Bench, led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, said the committees should be constituted in accordance with the mandate of The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act of 2013 and the Vishaka case guidelines of the Supreme Court to protect women in workplaces

With promptitude

The apex court asked Chief Justices and Acting Chief Justices of High Courts to constitute the committee with “quiet promptitude”.

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