By shagun, 15 May, 2025
She-Box

SHe-Box: Empowering Working Women with a Voice Against Workplace Harassment

In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, women continue to break barriers, shatter stereotypes, and lead across industries. However, the challenge of ensuring a safe and respectful environment remains significant. This is where SHe-Box—the Sexual Harassment Electronic Box—steps in as a powerful tool designed to empower working women across India.

By shagun, 24 April, 2025
css leaves

Leave Rules for Women Central Government Employees (As per CCS Leave Rules, 1972)

The Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972, offer special provisions to support women employees in balancing their professional and personal lives, especially regarding maternity, childcare, and family-related responsibilities. These rules ensure that women employees are granted adequate leave to manage health, childcare, and family obligations without compromising their careers.

Both the CCS Leave Rules and the Maternity Benefit Act deal with leave entitlements for employees in India, but they apply to different sectors and have some key differences.

By Expert, 17 April, 2025

Miscelleneous

Contains content  which does not fall in POSH, ML & labour laws

By Expert, 17 April, 2025

Labour Laws

This section contains information about Working women's labour laws

By shagun, 16 April, 2025

Section 79 - Outraging the Modesty of a Woman/ Words or Gestures Intended to Insult Her Modesty

Definition

This section preserves and updates the essence of IPC Sections 354 and 509, focusing on sexual harassment and offenses related to a woman’s modesty.

Main Focus of Section 79

This section punishes:

  • Any act that outrages the modesty of a woman
  • Words, gestures, or actions intended to insult a woman’s modesty

Two Main Parts of Section 79

1. Assault or Use of Criminal Force to Outrage Modesty

This involves a physical act, such as

By shagun, 16 April, 2025

Section 66 - Abuse of Authority for Sexual Exploitation (BNS, 2023)

Definition

This section criminalises situations where a person in a position of authority or trust uses that position to induce or seduce a woman into sexual relations not amounting to rape.

Who Can Be Punished Under This Section?

This law targets men in positions of power such as:

By shagun, 16 April, 2025
SECTION-63 RAPE

Section 63 - Rape (BNS, 2023)

Definition:

Under Section 63 of the BNS, rape is defined as a man committing any of the following acts with a woman against her will or without her consent, or under specific coercive or exploitative circumstances:

Acts Considered as Rape:

When a man:

By shagun, 16 April, 2025
trafficking

BNS Section 138 and 139- Human trafficking

Definition:

Section 138 criminalises trafficking of any person by using force, deception, coercion, abduction, abuse of power, or inducement to exploit them.

Key Components of Trafficking:

The act is considered trafficking if a person is recruited, transported, harboured, transferred, or received through one or more of the following means: