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VISHAKHA AND THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WMEN AT WORKPLACE (PREVENTION, PROHIBITION & REDRESSAL) ACT, 2013, AN ANALYSIS

    1 Author(s):  MS.SWATI JINDAL

Vol -  7, Issue- 4 ,         Page(s) : 211 - 218  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

Violence against women is a human rights violation whether it is a case of domestic violence within the sanctity of home or a case of sexual harassment at workplace. Since times immemorial, a woman has been perceived through the eyes of a man and in this patriarchal society, she emerges as his second half….’subordinate’,’secondary’,’subservient’,’inferior’ so on and so forth….” One can’t help but think of that era of the Hindu mythology,

  1.  1997 (7) SC 384.
  2.   16thDecember ,2013.
  3.  RaginiNayak, ‘ Not in the Image of God’, Mainstream, Vol. XLVI, No. 17, p.1.
  4.  Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1979 ( adopted by General Assembly on 18 December 1979).
  5.   Art. 142(1) of The constitution provides that the SC in exercise of it’s jurisdiction may pass such decree or may pass such order as is necessary for doing complete justice in any cause or matter pending before it, and any decree so passed or order so made shall be enforceable throughout the territory of India in such manner as  may be prescribed by or under any law made by the Parliament and, until provision in that behalf is so made, in such manner as the President may by order prescribe.
  6.  Maneka Gandhi v. UOI, AIR 1978 SC 597.
  7.  AIR 1999 SC 625.
  8.   Ibid, page 634,para 29.
  9.   Ibid.
  10.  Article 14 of the Constitution of India, 1950.
  11.  Article 16 of the Constitution of India, 1950.
  12.  Article 15(1) of the Constitution of India, 1950.
  13.   Article 39(d) of the Constitution of India.
  14.  Article 15(3) of the Constitution of India.
  15.   Article 51A(e) of the Constitution of India.
  16.  Article 42 of the Constitution of India.
  17.  Section 27(3), the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act, 2013.
  18.   Section 9(1), Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act,2013.
  19.   Section 11(4),Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act,2013.
  20.   Section 13(1),Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act,2013.
  21.   Section 13(4),Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act,2013.
  22.   Section 18(2),Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act,2013.
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  24.   The National Commission for Women (NCW) informed the High Court of Bombay on 30th April 2014.
  25.  http://ncrb.nic.in/CD-CII2011/Compendium2011.pdf accessed on 20-06-2014.

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