How to file a sexual harassment complaint in SHe-Box?

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Sexual Harassment at Workplace

The government of India had taken a number of steps over the past decade to curb the menace of sexual crimes against women, one of which was the introduction of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act in 2013. This act was aimed at securing a safe and healthy workplace environment for women across both private/public and organised/unorganised sectors of the economy to overcome all hurdles for gender equality at the workplace.

The act gave a legal definition to sexual harassment at workplace to include any and all unwelcome acts and/or behaviour, both expressed or implied such as:

• Unwanted physical advances and/or contact

• Demanding sexual favours

• Showing pornography

• Any verbal or non-verbal conduct of a sexual nature

Further, the act mandated setting up of internal complaints committees within organisations and also the local complaints committees in each district to provide a redressal forum to aggrieved women and to ensure that their complaints are acted upon by the authorities. Interestingly, the redressal mechanism under the act is not a substitute to filing an FIR with the police authorities, thus a victim of sexual harassment at workplace can simultaneously register a complaint with the complaints committee and file an FIR if she so chooses.
 

What is SHe-Box?

In furtherance of the same goal, the government of India introduced another tool in the form of the ‘Sexual Harassment electronic Box’, better known as the ‘SHe-Box’ to establish an online redressal mechanism for the disposal of complaints of sexual harassment arising out of the workplace.

The SHe-Box provides single window access to all working women of the nation to a complaint registration and redressal mechanism. The SHe-Box facilitates easy and prompt submission of sexual harassment complaints to the relevant authorities in the respective jurisdictions, to ensure swift action and delivery of justice.
 

Procedure to file an online complaint in SHe-Box

With the rapidly increasing internet reach and growth in internet users across the nation, the government has made it extremely easy for citizens to file a complaint by way of the SHe-Box by setting up the online portal accessible from any corner of India. The portal accessible at ‘www.shebox.nic.in’ provides a user-friendly interface to file a complaint in the SHe-Box by following the below mentioned steps: -

1. Ensure you have an email address

2. Visit the SHe-Box portal at, ‘www.shebox.nic.in’

3. Click on ‘register your complaint’ tab

4. Choose the category to which you belong between government employee or private employee

5. If you are a government employee select whether you are working with the central government or a state government

6. Fill all the fields of the registration form and press the ‘submit’ button

7. A confirmation message will be sent to your email address provided in the registration form

8. Click on the link, ‘confirm my email and create my account’ provided in the confirmation email to generate a password

9. View ‘status of the complaint’ by suiting your email address and the password generated

Following the above steps will successfully register your complaint, post which the portal even permits you to track the status and progress on your complaint. 

LawRato LawRato

801 votes

Now all the things are online. You can draft your complaint on shebox[dot]nic[dot]in under register your complaint in which if you go step by step you have to choose if you are a working under the government or you are in private sector and then your name and the name of the accused will be asked.

Advocate Jitender Singh LawRato

314 votes

Click here to open the page. Step 2: Click Register your complaint. Step 3: Select whether you are a government employee or a private employee. Step 4: Enter the data into the required fields.

Advocate Chikirsha Mohanty LawRato