Amit Shah to head panel on workplace sexual harassment

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a panel of four cabinet ministers to examine ways to prevent workplace sexual harassment, a ministry spokesman said, as activists criticised the official response to the #MeToo movement.

The movement triggered a public outcry in traditionally conservative India, with former junior Foreign Minister M J Akbar and Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi among dozens of high-profile men accused of sexual misconduct.

The new panel, which includes Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, was set up last week.