Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Archives

POSH| Sub-Inspector’s transfer, merely on account of pendency of Internal Committee proceedings, unjustified: MP High Court

“The intervenor created an impossible situation of stalemate in herself, bringing the proceedings of the ICC to a standstill and demanding reconstitution of committee which is not contemplated under the POSH Act.”

Case Briefs High Courts

[Sexual Harassment] Accused being a police personnel cannot be a ground to presume that witnesses will not depose against him: Delhi HC upholds setting aside of dismissal order

The Court stated that only because respondent is police personnel, it cannot be a ground to hold him guilty without conducting the statutorily prescribed departmental enquiry and that too in a matter, where the complainant and the witnesses are also police personnel.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Sexual Harassment at workplace: “Assure women safe & secure workplace or they will fear stepping out”; SC issues directions for PoSH Act implementation

The Supreme Court attributed the reluctance on the part of victims of Sexual Harassment at workplace to report the misconduct to, (i) uncertainty about who to approach under the Act for redressal of their grievance; and (ii) lack of confidence in the process and its outcome.

Case Briefs High Courts

Sikk HC | Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace| Open for Executive Authority to decide the scope of the term ‘workplace’

Sikkim High Court: The Division Bench of Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari, CJ. and Meenakshi Madan Rai, J., partly allowed an appeal which was