<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday set up its Gender Sensitisation and Internal Complaints Committee days after a young law intern accused a former judge of sexual harassment.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai will head the committee which will have nine other members, including another judge Justice Madan B Lokur and four lawyers.<br /><br />Other members include a representative from an NGO “Haq: Centre for Child Rights” and the director of Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies. Of the 10 members, seven are women .<br /><br />The formation of the committee was delayed for over a month as the Supreme Court (SC) Bar Association and SC Clerks Association failed to submit their nominations.<br />At the time of taking suo motu cognizance of the sexual harassment charges by the young law intern, Chief Justice P Sathasivam had reminded both associations of their failure to send in nominations.<br /><br />The committee in its present form could be attributed to a PIL by a group of women advocates contending that there was no panel in the apex court to deal with sexual harassment complaints as per the Vishakha judgment guidelines.<br /><br />Subsequently, the Gender Sensitisation and Sexual Harassment of Women at the Supreme Court of India (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Regulations, 2013, were notified and the chief justice constituted the committee.<br /><br />In a related development, the three-judge panel probing the allegations by the law intern, held another meeting on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday set up its Gender Sensitisation and Internal Complaints Committee days after a young law intern accused a former judge of sexual harassment.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai will head the committee which will have nine other members, including another judge Justice Madan B Lokur and four lawyers.<br /><br />Other members include a representative from an NGO “Haq: Centre for Child Rights” and the director of Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies. Of the 10 members, seven are women .<br /><br />The formation of the committee was delayed for over a month as the Supreme Court (SC) Bar Association and SC Clerks Association failed to submit their nominations.<br />At the time of taking suo motu cognizance of the sexual harassment charges by the young law intern, Chief Justice P Sathasivam had reminded both associations of their failure to send in nominations.<br /><br />The committee in its present form could be attributed to a PIL by a group of women advocates contending that there was no panel in the apex court to deal with sexual harassment complaints as per the Vishakha judgment guidelines.<br /><br />Subsequently, the Gender Sensitisation and Sexual Harassment of Women at the Supreme Court of India (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Regulations, 2013, were notified and the chief justice constituted the committee.<br /><br />In a related development, the three-judge panel probing the allegations by the law intern, held another meeting on Tuesday.</p>
