Sexual harassment appears to be everywhere these days, yet it was always so. Complaints, on the other hand, seemed to be rarer only a few years ago.

: Environment rights NGO Greenpeace India could be in for more trouble as an ex-staffer has gone public with allegations of rape and sexual harassment by her colleagues. The organisation’s inaction against the perpetrators has spurred more female ex-employees to come out with similar accusations. No...

Law student Aarushi Mahajan wrote a powerful piece in NLU Delhi’s Independent Student Newspaper Glasnost about her and other women’s experiences on the campus of one of India’s top national law schools.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday asked TERI director general RK Pachauri to file his response on a plea by a woman research analyst who has accused him of sexual harassment to cancel the bail granted to him. Justice SP Garg granted Pachauri four weeks time to respond and posted the matter for July ...

A Delhi court today granted protection from arrest until 27 March to environmentalist RK Pachauri, in a sexual harassment case. Additional Sessions Judge Raj Kumar Tripathi granted the interim protection to Pachauri while hearing his anticipatory bail application moved on health grounds. The court h...

A number of lawyers, academics and civil society members demanded the resignation of TERI director general RK Pachauri, who has been accused of sexually harassing a colleague. He has already stepped down as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and taken leave from TERI In...

Former iGate Technologies in-house lawyer sued the company and its global general counsel (GC), alleging that he and others had repeatedly sexually harassed and once sexually assaulted her.

NUSRL Ranchi’s assistant registrar was suspended from his position after a first year student of the law school filed a complaint of sexual harassment against him. Two committees have been set up to inquire into the complaint against the assistant registrar Dr Narendra Narottam, who was the universi...

The Supreme Court today quashed the two judge panel set up by the chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh high court to probe the allegations of sexual harassment levelled by a woman district judge against sitting judge of the high court, Justice SK Gangele. [Download judgment (PDF)] A bench of Justice ...

Supreme Court justices SJ Mukhopadhaya and NV Ramana have set aside declined to interfere with a Calcutta high court order that declined to cancel the bail of former NUJS Kolkata assistant registrar Siddhartha Guha, who is accused of having sexually harassed another staff member at the college, repo...

This is a reminder for myself: a reminder that being aware of how I don’t want to be man-handled does not mean I am fussy, or hormonal, or (my favourite) “being such a girl”.

The Supreme Court today heard arguments by counsel in the allegation by a former Gwalior district judge that she was sexually harassed by a Madhya Pradesh high court judge SK Gangele. The order, uploaded on the Supreme Court website , stated: Arguments heard, which remained inconclusive. List for fu...

The Allahabad high court terminated 11 trainee judicial officers from the lower judicial service last week after a drunken brawl in Lucknow in which the 11 were involved, reported the Times of India . The 11 had visited a restaurant on 7 August to celebrate the completion of their training on 8 Augu...

Sessions court judge MT Gaikwad has been suspended in South Mumbai after a preliminary inquiry about a complaint from a female member of the court staff complained of his “inappropriate behaviour” - in particular, by staring at her in an offensive manner, reported the PTI . The preliminary inquiry w...

The former Gwalior district judge who alleged she was sexually harassed by a high court judge who transferred her, said she would not cooperate with the panel set up to investigate her complaint until the panel is reconstituted. The panel set up by Chief Justice of India RM Lodha to probe the allega...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) executive commitee is “prima facie of the view” that a female additional district judge in Gwalior was sexually harassed by a more senior judge, and that this complaint should be dealt with immediately by the CJI. The SCBA also urged the CJI to file an FIR an...

A letter of complaint was sent on 1 August to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha and the rest of the Supreme Court collegium by a female additional district and sessions judge in Gwalior, who resigned on 15 July, allegeging that she was sexually harassed by a more senior male judge of the Mad...

Kian Ganz explains on Newslaundry how over the last week the papers have been happily running with a news story about how AK Ganguly, the former Supreme Court judge who had allegedly harassed one of his interns after retirement, with headlines such as “Ganguly gets Centre’s clean chit in intern case...

Singh & Singh drafted the defamation notice on behalf of India TV producers Rajat Sharma and Ritu Dhawan, which was sent to their former employee Tanu Sharma for her sexual harassment allegations against the channel and to Newslaundry reporter Manisha Pande for her story “Tanu Sharma Vs India T...

Newschannel IndiaTV ’s producers Rajat Sharma and Ritu Dhawan sent a defamation notice to their former employee Tanu Sharma who had made sexual harassment allegations against the channel and its senior executive Anita Sharma, reported the Caravan ’s online publication, Vantage . The notice states: “...