NEW DELHI: SC on Friday agreed to hear Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association's plea to make Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act applicable to sexual harassment complaints against advocates. It issued a notice of appeal against a Bombay high court judgment holding that the Act was not applicable to advocates. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan issued notice on the petition and tagged it along with a similar petition filed earlier. The association said the HC judgment was against the principles laid down by the apex court, which had directed every professional body must have an internal complaints committee. Senior advocate Mahalakshmi Pavani, appearing for the petitioner, said the HC judgment left women in the profession without remedies and no perma

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