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SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WOMEN AT WORKPLACE: A CONSTITUTIONAL ASPECT

    1 Author(s):  PARVINDER

Vol -  7, Issue- 9 ,         Page(s) : 128 - 133  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

The Indian constitution guarantees certain basic and fundamental human rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human rights, 1948 to its citizens and other persons. To protect the rights of the women and to give them equal status in the society, the framers of the Constitution of India granted some special rights to the women in the constitution in the form of both the Fundamental rights and Directive principles of state policies, which were directed towards the state. In this article the author explain the constitutional study of sexual harassment of working women.

* Research Scholar, Faculty of Law, Maharishi Dayanand University,Rohtak 

  1.   Indira Jaising, “Sexual Harassment at Workplace”, Second Edition 2015
  2.   State of Kerala v. N.M. Thomas 1976, 2 Sec.310
  3.   Article 15 of the Indian Constitution
  4.   AIR 1988 SC. 1829
  5.  Supra 3.
  6.   1995, 4 SCC 520  
  7.   Ibid. At para7.
  8.   Ibid.
  9.    2009 DLT 557. 
  10.   Article 16 of the Indian Constitution
  11.   Olga Tellis v. Bombay Municipal Corporation,1985,3 SCC 545 
  12.   See generally Mackinnon, C., Feminist Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1987.  
  13.   Vishaka & Others v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1997 SC 301
  14.  AIR 1997 SC 3011
  15. See The Sexual Harassment of Woman at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal)Act, 2013 came into force on 9th Dec. 2013,vide notification  issued by the central govt. para3. 
  16.   Article 7, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,1966.  
  17.  1999  SCC 759
  18.   D.A.V. College v. State of Punjab,1971,2 SCC 269
  19.   Article 21 of the Indian Constitution
  20.   2000, 2 SCC465
  21.   Ibid.
  22.  1997, 6  SCC 241 
  23.   1999, 1 SCC 759.
  24.   See Deputy Inspector General of Police v. S. Samuthiram ,2013, 1 SCC 598 at para 26.
  25.  1997, 6  SCC 241
  26.   Civil Writ Petition No. 22260 of 2010 decided on February o4,2011 Punjab and Haryana 

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