The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) cannot take any action against retired Supreme Court (SC) justice and National Green Tribunal (NGT) head Swatanter Kumar in the sexual harassment complaint against him, as the charges are from when he was an SC judge, the MoEF told the SC, reported the ...

A former intern, who had alleged that ex-Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar has sexually harassed her in 2011, has applied to the Supreme Court to transfer Kumar’s defamation case.

The advocate who has been banned from the Supreme Court premises for six months by the court’s new sexual harassment committee and the CJI, said he would seek a review of the order.

The Supreme Court sexual harassment committee has banned an advocate from the Supreme Court premises for six months for an incident of sexual harassment.

A woman has allegedly been molested inside a Delhi high court room while she was accompanied by her father and lawyer. An unnamed man allegedly first stared at her in the court’s lobby, later stood beside her and put his hand on her shoulder, and then touched her inappropriately on 5 March. CCTV foo...

Now professor of law, social policy and women’s studies in the US, Hill says despite her critics working to destroy her for accusing Thomas of sexual harassment and the ensuing senate hearings, she has survived and “created a vocabulary around sex harassment where none existed before”, reports the N...

Fali Nariman and PP Rao have completed their recommendations to the Supreme Court in what procedure to follow in case of sex harassment allegations against sitting and former judges.

NUJS Kolkata vice chancellor Ishwara Bhatt announced at the law school’s convocation that its guidelines to protect of interns from sexual harassment would be published on its website soon, reported the Telegraph . The report added that Bhatt promised that if an intern’s employer does not take actio...

Cal client complains HC advocate sexually harassed her : A Kolkata college professor has complained to the Calcutta High Court Bar Association that an advocate whom she had instructed had sexually harassed her during the course of her litigation. The association will now convene an executive committ...

The Supreme Court’s sexual harassment committee has explained how sexual harassment complaints against practising lawyers and court staff should be made in future.

The Supreme Court has adjourned its hearing in the public interest litigation (PIL) against Swatanter Kumar until 26 March, as two more interveners attempted to join the PIL.

Legally India has obtained a copy of the public interest litigation filed by anonymous lawyer X, a former intern of ex-Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar, whose case will again get heard by the Supreme Court tomorrow (14 February).

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) asked solicitor general Mohan Parasaran if National Green Tribunal (NGT) chairperson Swatanter Kumar can face removal proceedings based on treating the SC sexual harassment petition against him as “written complaint”, reported the Indian Express . An ex...

The Supreme Court Gender Sensitisation and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC) has received two complaints of sexual harassment since it was set up on 26 November 2013, reported the PTI , citing the GSICC Annual Report (PDF): In the First Meeting of the GSICC held on 9/12/2013, an Internal Sub-Com...

Swatanter wins media blackout : The Delhi HC has provided former SC judge Swatanter Kumar interim relief in the defamation suit he had filed against three media houses. The HC prohibited the media from publishing anything beyond the court’s orders in his ex-intern’s sexual harassment PIL against him...

Swatanter Kumar ex-intern PIL admitted : Former SC judge Swatanter Kumar’s ex-intern from NUJS Kolkata who had made sexual harassment allegations against him yesterday moved a petition in the SC for inquiry against him. The intern challenged the SC’s 5 December 2013 full court resolution that it cou...

Swatanter Kumar lashes back : Former SC judge and National Green Tribunal head Swatanter Kumar – who was accused of sexual harassment by an ex-intern from NUJS Kolkata according to Friday’s media reports – sent a legal notice to three media houses demanding an apology from them within 24 hours for p...

Justice AK Ganguly resigned as West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman today , reported IBN Live citing sources. Ganguly reportedly met West Bengal governor MK Narayanan in Kolkata to submit his resignation. Senior counsel and ex-attorney general Soli Sorabjee told The Hindu yesterday that Gang...

**Bombay HC new judges The Bombay HC got five new additional judges today in lawyers Vinay Manohar Deshpande, Ajey Gadkari, Nitin Sambre, Girish Kulkarni and B S Colabawalla [ PTI ] **NGT not HC-enough for suo motu The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has no power to take cognisance of cases on its own...

LI reporter Prachi Shrivastava argues that, to date, the pillars of the Indian constitution have been remarkably efficient and fair in the investigation and reporting of the sexual harassment allegations against former Supreme Court Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly.