Highlights 1 Amid spurt in sexual crimes Supreme Court has pulled up states. 2 States have four weeks to convey status on implementation of law on sexual harassment at workplace. Amid a spurt in complaints of sexual abuse, the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday asked the Central and state governments to file a status report on the implementation of law against sexual harassment of women at workplaces. The law requires workplaces to form Internal Complaints Committees to hear cases of sexual harassment at work. However, after the enactment of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, Redressal) Act in 2013, the SC's Vishaka guidelines ceased to exist.

Source: India Today January 05, 2018 03:03 UTC