The Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court order holding that the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 does not apply to complaints of sexual harassment made by advocates against other advocates before Bar Councils.

A bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice R Mahadevan issued notice on the plea and tagged the matter with Seema Joshi v. Bar Council of India and Ors .

The Counsel for the petitioner submitted that the High Court judgment went against the principles laid down in Aureliano Fernandes, where the Supreme Court had directed that every professional body must have an Internal Complaints Committee.

She argued that the High Court had adopted a narro

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