Only three High Courts are fully compliant, the Supreme Court has been told, and it now wants a single High Court-wise chart showing where every court and Bar Association stands on sexual harassment committees. New Delhi: Working from the affidavits that every High Court has now filed, the Supreme Court on Thursday, October 15, ordered […]
Four women wrestlers have filed an appeal in a Delhi court challenging the acquittal of BJP leader and former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, and co-accused Vinod Tomar, in a sexual harassment case. The appeal contends the trial court’s August 3 order was legally unsustainable and rested on ‘archaic and stereotypical assumptions’ about how victims of sexual assault are expected to behave.
The Bombay High Court said families in India often hesitate to report sexual assault and harassment due to social realities, and delay in filing an FIR alone cannot defeat such complaints. Refusing to quash a 2019 molestation FIR, the Court dismissed a Kerala man’s plea over allegations of outraging his domestic worker’s modesty.
