India: Sexual harassment of women through SMS on the rise

There is an alarming rise in sexual harassment of women through SMS and mobile photography, India's's largest women's body today said and called for implementation of an effective mechanism to check this, according to newkerala.

''Harassment through SMS is a new phenomenon and is rising. We have received a number of complaints where senior managers sent lewd SMSs to their junior women colleagues. This amounts to sexual harassment of women at workplace,'' the All India Democratic Women's Association joint secretary, U Vasuki, told a press meet here today

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