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SC takes stock of POSH Act compliance across country
Hindustan Times Gurugram
|January 07, 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday took stock of the implementation of gender-sensitive provisions for women at workplaces across the country by asking high courts to report establishment of internal complaints committee across all courts and tribunals and directed states, union territories to comply with statutory requirement of appointing district and nodal officers for redressal of sexual harassment complaints.
The top court was dealing with a PIL seeking uniform implementation of POSH.
In two separate proceedings, the court passed the orders - the first being a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by one Geeta Rani seeking uniform implementation of The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 or POSH Act, and the other being a pending petition filed by a victim of sexual harassment where the court is monitoring countrywide directions issued to states and UTs to give full effect to the Act provisions.
This story is from the January 07, 2026 edition of Hindustan Times Gurugram.
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