SC sets up committee to deal with sexual harassment complaints

The committee includes three male members—Justice Madan B Lokur, sitting apex court judge, senior advocate L Nageswara Rao and Prof Dr G Mohan Gopal, Director of Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, who is the nominee of the CJI and is an outsider.

The women members are senior advocate Indu Malhotra, advocate Bina Madhavan (representative of Supreme Court Bar Association), B Sunita Rao (representative of Supreme Court advocates-on-record Association), Madhu Chauhan, (representative of Supreme Court Clerks Association) and Bharti Ali (Co-Director, HAQ : Centre for Child Rights, New Delhi) has been appointed as a nominee of the CJI and is an outsider.

Rachna Gupta, Additional Registrar, will be the member Secretary of the committee.

Bharti has been working on issues related to women and children since 1991.

She is the founder and Co-Director of HAQ: Centre for Child Rights. She has also been the National Convenor of CACT (the Campaign Against Child Trafficking in India), since its initiation till 2005.