New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has approached the apex court seeking guidelines to ensure that the rights to health, dignity, bodily autonomy, and privacy of women and girls are not violated when they experience menstruation or related gynaecological issues at the workplace and in educational institutions.

The writ petition, filed under Article 32 of the Constitution, stems from an incident that reportedly took place on October 26 at Maharshi Dayanand University in Haryana’s Rohtak, where three female sanitation workers were allegedly forced to provide photographic proof of menstruation to their supervisors.

According to the petition, the workers, called in for duty on a Sunday due to the visit of the Haryana Governor, were “verbally abused, humiliated

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