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Case BriefsHigh Courts

POSH Act | Jurisdiction of Internal Complaints Committee and Local Committee: Detailed account of Delhi HC decision revolving around case of aggrieved women herself terminated from services

Delhi High Court: Noting allegations against an employer with regard to the sexual harassment Sanjeev Sachdeva, J., expressed that, “…instead of providing

Published on October 27, 2021October 28, 2021By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Ker HC | “Protection shall be offered discreetly, by women Police Officers not in uniform”; HC directs Kerala to ensure effective protection of victims of sexual harassment

Kerala High Court: Devan Ramachandran, J., directed the State of Kerala along with the Commissioner of Police to take steps for effective

Published on October 15, 2021October 15, 2021By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Fear of stigma, not being believed and being blamed: 17-year-old girl leaving a note to her mother explaining ill deeds of her uncle who sexually harassed her, ended her life | Bom HC delves to know what happened

Bombay High Court: Sexual violence knows no boundaries, it occurs in every country, across all parts of society, Bharati Dangre, J., while

Published on September 18, 2021September 20, 2021By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Kar HC | A Mangalore University professor being accused of sexual harassment by a student; Court observes “He that takes the procedural sword shall perish with that sword”

Karnataka High Court: M Nagprasanna, J., allowed the petition and quashed the impugned second show cause notice holding The University is at

Published on July 22, 2021July 30, 2021By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

[Sexual harassment at Workplace]Tri HC| Tribunal is the court of first instance; Not open for the litigant to approach the High Court as a court of first instance

Tripura High Court: Arindam Lodh, J., dismissed a petition which was filed by the petitioner to resolve her grievance in consonance with

Published on May 18, 2021May 21, 2021By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Madras HC | Media and Political Parties restrained from indulging in any discussions on alleged sexual harassment of Lady IPS Officer – NO parallel ‘Media Trial’ || Restraint to continue

Madras High Court: N. Anand Venkatesh, J., while addressing the concern with respect to a very shocking incident wherein a Lady IPS

Published on March 17, 2021March 26, 2021By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Madras HC | Lady IPS Officer harassed by Special DGP. “Court is not going to be a mute spectator”: HC takes suo motu cognizance; decides to monitor investigation; issues directions

“There is a faulty gene in men which sometimes make them think that a woman is subordinate to them and that at times she can even be treated like a chattel.”

Published on March 2, 2021March 2, 2021By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsDistrict Court

#MeToo | MJ Akbar v. Priya Ramani: Woman has a right to put her grievance at any platform of her choice even after decades || No defamation case against Priya Ramani [Verdict]

“Sometimes the victim of sexual abuse herself does not understand what is happening to them or what is happening to them is wrong.”

Published on February 17, 2021February 20, 2021By Bhumika Indulia
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Advocate’s clerk, guilty of sexual harassment, banned from entering Supreme Court precincts for 3 months

On 15.02.2021, the Supreme Court has issued a notice banning Ashok Saini, the clerk of an advocate, from entering the precincts of

Published on February 15, 2021By Prachi Bhardwaj
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Cal HC | Can a complaint under POSH Act be filed against person of same gender? Read HC’s full analysis

“[Sexual harassment] can be perpetrated by the members of any gender, even inter se.” Calcutta High Court: Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J. held that

Published on January 16, 2021January 16, 2021By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Del HC | Can Internal Complaints Committee make comments on personal conduct of parties? Read what HC says about ‘Moral Policing’ and ‘Consensual Relationships’

Delhi High Court: Pratibha M. Singh, J., observed that: Complaints of sexual harassment are initially filed with enormous reluctance. The power of

Published on December 21, 2020December 25, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Del HC | Can absence of eyewitness in a sexual harassment incident detract complainant’s credibility before Internal Complaints Committee constituted at a workplace? HC explains

“…it is this gender conditioning that leads men to abuse, ill-treat or become violent towards women and TGs or treat them disparagingly and with condescension.”

Published on December 17, 2020December 25, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Ker HC | Will provisions of POSH, 2013 cover only an express or implied sexual advance, sexual undertone or unwelcome behaviour which has a sexual tone behind it under its umbrella? Let’s read what HC says

Kerala High Court: The Division Bench of A.M. Shaffique and Gopinath P., JJ., while observing a matter in regard to sexual harassment at

Published on December 9, 2020December 11, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Sikk HC | Whether a private function comes within ambit of broad interpretation of “workplace” in POSH Act?: HC to determine

Sikkim High Court: Bhaskar Raj Pradhan, J.has framed an eminent question for determination which will have an impact on the dispensation of justice

Published on August 28, 2020September 4, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Bom HC | No straight jacket formula as to how a woman will react to an act of outrage by a male

Bombay High Court: Bharati Dangre, J., while addressing a bail application made the following observation: There cannot be a straight jacket formula as

Published on July 25, 2020July 31, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Hot Off The PressNews

NHRC notice to Uttar Pradesh Government over reported self-immolation by a mother–daughter duo alleging inaction on their sexual harassment complaint

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, India has issued to notices to the Chief Secretary and DGP, Uttar Pradesh after taking sou

Published on July 25, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsForeign Courts

Sri Lanka SC upholds indictment and non-reinstatement of Colombo University senior lecturer accused of sexual harassment

Supreme Court of Sri Lanka:  A Full Bench of  Buwaneka Aluwihare PC, P. Padman Surasena and E A G R Amarasekara JJ

Published on July 21, 2020August 7, 2020By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Utt HC | Sole testimony of victim of sexual abuse, if found reliable, is sufficient to hold accused guilty in departmental enquiry

Uttaranchal High Court: A Division Bench of Ramesh Ranganathan, CJ and R.C. Khulbe, J., dismissed a writ petition that was filed questioning

Published on June 26, 2020July 3, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Ker HC | Bail to sexual harassment accused on grounds of no prima facie offence and accused already suffered detention

Kerala High Court: Alexander Thomas, J., allowed a bail application subject to stringent conditions in child sexual harassment case on the ground

Published on November 21, 2019November 25, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Del HC | Suggestion given by counsel on behalf of accused cannot be considered as “admission” to bind him under S. 18 of Evidence Act

Delhi High Court: Manoj Kumar Ohri, J. allowed a revision petition filed against the judgment of the trial court whereby the petitioner was

Published on October 15, 2019October 18, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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