New Delhi: Pointing out that the Bombay High Court’s recent ruling excluding female advocates from the ambit of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, 2013, creates a significant vacuum in redressing their grievances against sexual harassment, the Supreme Court Women Lawyers’ Association has approached the top court.

On Friday, a bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan issued notice on the plea filed through advocate Sneha Kalita in August this year, which essentially challenges the core argument given by the Bombay HC which said that there exists no employer-employee relationship between bar councils and advocates.

Senior advocate Mahalakshmi Pavami argued the matter, urging the court’s intervention to redress the gap create

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