SEXUAL HARASSMENT: A SHORT HISTORICAL STUDY
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During the absence of legislature to protect women against sexual harassment at workplace supreme court of India give guideline in the Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan in 1997. The guidelines defined sexual harassment and Supreme Court stated to imposed compulsory duty on the employer to make a complaint mechanism to initiate criminal action against the offender, take certain preventive measures or create awareness among the workers about the guidelines, and protect women against the act who commits against them. The final bill relating to sexual harassment of women at workplace was introduced in the lok sabha, being the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prohibition, Prevention and Redressal) Bill, 2012. This bill was passes by parliament on 3rd September, 2012 and receives the assent of the President of India on 22nd April, 2013. The 2013 Act came into force only on 9th December, 2013. The researcher has focused upon the history of sexual harassment and development in India.
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