“ Not a workplace ”: pleads of junks from the Supreme Court to bring political parties under chic law

The Supreme Court rejected a plea aimed at bringing the political parties registered under the region of the 2013 law on the sexual harassment of women in the workplace (prevention, prohibition and reparation).

The law on sexual harassment of women in the workplace (prevention, prohibition and reparation) was born in 2013 to protect women from sexual harassment in workplaces and ensure a safe work environment.

A bench of the chief judge of India BR Gavai and the judges K Vinod Chandran and ATUL S Chandurkar declared that the application of the chic law to the political parties would open a box of Pandora and would become a tool for blackmail and abusive use.

“How do you assimilate political parties as a place of work? When a person joins a political party, it is not a job. It is not a job because he joins the political parties of their own will and without recalling. How did the law against sexual harassment at the workplace included political parties?

The high -level court heard an appeal against a judgment of the high court of the Kerala in 2022 which declared that political parties were not contrary to establishing ICCs in the absence of a relationship with the employees.

The main lawyer Shobha Gupta, appearing for the petitioner Yogamaya MG, has submitted that many women are active members of the political parties, only the CPM had an internal complaint committee.

The Superior Court had previously refused to hear a pil with a similar prayer.