Pending cases before the women commission

By Kaviraj Singh

According to the reply obtained by city-based RTI activist Jeetendra Ghadge, 2,917 cases were pending before the commission in 2012 which shot up to 3,573 in 2013, 5,092 in 2014 and 5,929 in 2015. The reply also revealed the women’s right panel had received only 40 complaints of sexual harassment at workplaces in 2012-13, which subsequently rose to 262 in 2013-14, dropped to 91 in 2014-15 and again shot up to 102 in 2015-16, he said