OMG: About 40-60 per cent of working women in the Hyderabad city face harassment at their work place. City police Chief Anurag Sharma confides that several prominent government and corporate offices in Hyderabad still have no internal complaints committees, though mandatory under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Rederssal) Act, 2013.
Hyderabad had many sensational cases of M Sailaja Suman( Doordarshan director), lawyer, Sangeeta Sharma, suicide in 2000.and the case of IAS officer V S Bhaskar all of which did not yield any justice to the victims In the back drop of infamous Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal rape case incidents of sexual harassment in work place has once again been noticed .
Women activists of Hyderabad say that the condition of lady workers in BPO and call centres and also film industry was very bad but there had been no takers.'At least five rapes and sexual attacks per day are being reported in the capital but there is no proper redressal' says a activist
