The SCBA has also resolved that in-camera proceedings will be conducted and the name of the complainant will not be disclosed.
The 5-member committee will comprise senior advocates Altaf Ahmad and Pinky Anand, besides counsel Meera Bhatia, S. Kumud Lata Das and Sharbani Chakravarthy.
The committee has been set up more than 15 years after the guidelines framed by the apex court in the Vishakha case.
The committee has been constituted after the Association's Assistant Secretary Gaurav Bhatia had raised the issue at the SCBA's Executive Committee meeting on Tuesday.
Bhatia had in a letter addressed to the Association on October 5 pointed out that no such such committee was functioning even 15 years after the Supreme Court had issued guidelines to prevent sexual harassment.
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