Supreme Court issues directions to curb s*xual harassment of women in public transport
NEW DELHI: Laying down stringent procedures to curb and punish harassment of women in public transport, the Supreme Court has ordered that in the event of acomplaint of a woman, the bus driver must immediately drive the vehicle to the nearest police station. If the driver fails to do so, authorities must cancel his permit to ply.
This is part of a series of directions issued on Friday by the court that include installing CCTVs, setting up helplines and proactive steps by authorities to make public places safer, to curb the menace of women being harassed by offenders passing lewd comments and "singing, reciting or uttering" any obscene song or making sounds or gestures to insult their modesty.
A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishan and Dipak Misra lamented that Tamil Nadu was the only state to have enacted a law against harassment of women but found it to be "toothless
