MUHAMMAD RIZWAN DALIA vs OMBUDSMAN (THE PROTECTION AGAINST HARASSMENT OF WOMEN AT THE WORKPLACE) SINDH S — 2022 PLD 213 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

Case information

Citation: 2022 PLD 213 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Court: Sindh High Court
Year: 2022
Reporter: PLD
Parties: MUHAMMAD RIZWAN DALIA vs OMBUDSMAN (THE PROTECTION AGAINST HARASSMENT OF WOMEN AT THE WORKPLACE) SINDH S
Subject matter: Constitutional
Provisions referred to: S. 8---C; Workplace Act

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Judgment text as reported

MUHAMMAD RIZWAN DALIA VS OMBUDSMAN (THE PROTECTION AGAINST HARASSMENT OF WOMEN AT THE WORKPLACE) SINDH S. 8---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Complaint of ex-employee, assailed show-cause notice---Petitioner was alleged to have caused harassment to complainant at workplace when she was in service---Validity---Woman employed on contractual, daily, hourly or monthly basis including an interim / apprentice could prefer a complaint to Ombudsman or Inquiry Committee, if she was aggrieved by an act of harassment at workplace either in the shape of sexual advance or request for sexual favour or verbal or written communication or physical conduct of a sexual nature etc.---No bar existed in Protection Against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act, 2010, that a woman only during her employment could file complaint regarding alleged sexual harassment at the workplace---Acts of harassment as claimed by complainant were allegedly taken place in office during the period when she was working there---High Court declined to interfere in the matter---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.

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