New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- Sexual harassment at the workplace, despite strict laws and repeated assertions about gender equality, remains deeply rooted in societal attitudes, the Delhi high court observed while upholding a trial court's decision to take cognisance of a complaint filed by a Kashmiri Administrative Service officer against her superior.

Terming the case as a glaring example of a wronged woman's struggle in her workplace to get justice, a bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna, in her August 28 verdict, released on Monday, said that education nor high office shields women from sexual harassment. The bench lamented that male mindsets continue to undermine the promise of safe workplaces.

The order came on a plea by a male officer,...