Overview
- The Supreme Court Bar Association filed a writ petition seeking directions to the Centre and Haryana for a detailed investigation into alleged checks on menstruation at Maharishi Dayanand University.
- The petition urges the court to frame Vishaka-style, binding protocols safeguarding the health, privacy, dignity and bodily autonomy of women and girls in workplaces and educational institutions.
- Workers alleged supervisors demanded photos of sanitary pads as proof and pressured them to take images in a washroom after they reported menstrual discomfort.
- Police registered an FIR on October 31 citing sexual harassment, criminal intimidation, assault and insult to a woman's modesty, and said the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act could also be invoked.
- MDU suspended two contractual supervisors and ordered an internal probe into the October 26 incident, which occurred ahead of a planned campus visit by the Haryana governor.