Supreme court guidelines for prevention of sexual harassment

Such a Report was submitted before us in its draft form and after thorough discussion, the Committee was requested to make certain additions and alterations and now finally the Regulations referred to as - The Gender Sensitisation & Sexual Harassment of Women at the Supreme Court of India (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Regulations, 2013, have been placed before us in its final form. The said Regulations have also been considered by the learned Attorney General, as also the learned Additional Solicitor General, Mr. Sidharth Luthra. All the learned counsel are agreeable that the Regulations, in their present form, may be accepted and appropriate orders may be passed thereupon. We too have gone through the Regulations and find them to be suitable to tackle the menace of s*xual predation in the Court precincts for the present. The same may require changes, if necessary, based on future experience. We, accordingly, approve of and accept the aforesaid Regulations and direct the Supreme Court in its administrative jurisdiction to take note of the same and to arrange that the same are promulgated and given wide publicity. Copies of the same be sent to the different High Courts in the different States, so that they too may formulate their own Regulations in the same manner, in order to contain harassment of women in court premises. The High Courts may also ensure that the same are implemented at the District level as well.