Sexual harrasment News

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A special investigation team detained BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand, accused in the alleged sexual harassment of a UP law student, on Friday morning.

Actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, who believes that the #MeToo movement has been "as eye-opening and devastating as it has been exhilarating", will galvanise people into action and into a redemption of rights long awaited for the disempowered. This, she believes, may seem complex, but can be achieved in a simple way.

Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay High Court has come out in support of the ongoing #MeToo movement currently sweeping the country's landscape, saying the patriarchal world does not allow women to speak freely.

Actor-singer Ali Zafar has filed a defamation suit in a district court here against singer Meesha Shafi, who accused him of sexual harassment two months ago on social media. The suit claims damages of Rs 1 billion.

The actress revealed how months ago, a 15-year-old boy tried to misbehave with her.

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the NGO Initiative for Inclusion Foundation (IIF) to give suggestions for the effective implementation of a law to curb sexual harassment of women at workplaces, particularly in the private sector.

During the course of the investigation, it was found that the complainant had killed his father. He has confessed to his crime, the SP claimed.

Israeli Vice Premier Silvan Shalom, a veteran politician in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu`s right-wing Likud party, resigned on Sunday following allegations that he had sexually harassed several women during his career.