20 Laws Against Sexual Harassment Most Indians Don’t Know About

Sukanya Banerjee

As women (and often, men too) living in India, we have all fallen prey to sexual harassment in one form or another. Be it the cat calls on the road, or molestation in a crowded bus, we’ve all been there, faced that. But how many of us know that the Indian penal code has laws to protect us from each of these?

Breakthrough India has taken an initiative to spread awareness about these laws.

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