Commenting on woman’’s body structure amounts to sexual harassment: Kerala HC

Kochi, PTI: The Kerala High Court has held that a comment on a woman’s “body structure” is a sexually coloured remark which would constitute penal offence of sexual harassment. The ruling by Justice A Badharudeen came while dismissing a former Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) employee’s plea to quash the sexual harassment case against him filed by a woman staffer of the same organisation. The woman had alleged that the accused used vulgar language against her from 2013 onwards and then in 2016-17 began sending objectionable messages and voice calls. Despite complaints against him to the KSEB and the police, he continued sending her objectionable messages, she had claimed.