The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous.

On Friday, the Supreme Court of India (SCI) declined to hear a petition seeking to apply the country’s workplace sexual harassment law—called the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, 2013 or the “POSH” Act—to political parties.

The bench, comprising Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai and Justice Vinod Chandran , initially stated that the matter fell within the domain of legislative policy and that the Court was not inclined to interfere. The petitioner’s advocate then withdrew the writ petition with liberty—formally asking the Supreme Court to dismiss the petition but reserving the right to refile later—indicating they would instead chal

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