SC Directs All High Courts, District Courts To Constitute Sexual Harassment Complaints Committees In Two Months

Breaking:SC Directs All High Courts, District Courts To Constitute Sexual Harassment Complaints Committees In Two Months

In the wake of the recent incident of a lady advocate being assaulted by members of the Bar at the Tis Hazari Courts in Delhi on May 4, the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar on Friday directed the Acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court to constitute committees to tackle complaints of sexual harassment in all district courts.

The bench also required the Chief Justices of all High Courts to constitute within 2 months similar committees, in pursuance of the landmark judgment of the apex court in Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan and the subsequent Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act of 2013, in all district courts as well as the High Court of the state.

In respect of the FIR and the cross FIR connected to the said incident, the bench ordered the same to be investigated and tried in accordance with the law, restraining the arrest of the accused in both.