Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : The central government will set up a committee of legal and judicial officers to look into all issues arising from the Indian #MeToo campaign, said Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Friday, as pressure builds for the dispensation to act against a minister who faces sexual harassment allegations.
Without naming her ministerial colleague MJ Akbar, who is facing serious charges of sexual predatory from at least nine women journalists, Maneka Gandhi said: “I believe in all of them. I believe in the pain and trauma behind every single complainant. Cases of sexual harassment at work must be dealt with a policy of zero tolerance”.
The committee will look into the legal and institutional framework that is in place for handling complaints of sexual harassment and advise the ministry on how to strengthen them, she said.
The development comes after women ministers such as Gandhi, Smriti Irani and Uma Bharti extended their support to the ongoing #MeToo campaign.
