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POSH to be implemented uniformly across country: SC

By Jhanak Sharma      03 December, 2024 10:41 PM      0 Comments
POSH to be implemented uniformly across country: SC

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that provisions of the POSH Act must be uniformly implemented across states and UTs, as it issued fresh detailed directions to ensure its effective compliance in order to redress grievances of women at their workplace.

A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and N Kotiswar Singh raised the issue of the importance of pan-India compliance of the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act).

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