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The Supreme Court connected Friday (November 21, 2025) sought the Centre and the Bar Council of India's effect connected a plea challenging the Bombay High Court bid that held the POSH Act does not use to complaints made by advocates against different advocates earlier barroom councils.
A seat of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan issued the announcement and tagged the substance with a akin plea.
The apical tribunal was proceeding an entreaty filed by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association, represented by elder advocator Mahalakshmi Pavani and assisted by advocator Sneha Kalita, against the Bombay High Court's July 7 decision.
POSH Act: Bombay High Court guidelines challenged successful Supreme Court
The petition argued that the High Court bid has near women lawyers remediless, arsenic the precocious tribunal held that the Sexual Harassment of Women astatine Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act), volition not use to barroom councils.
It questioned the precocious tribunal judgment, which said women lawyers tin attack barroom councils nether conception 35 of the Advocates Act, 1961.
The petitioner argued that Section 35 of the Act deals with the punishment of advocates for nonrecreational misconduct, which is antithetic from intersexual harassment.
