New Delhi, Jan. 7 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday took stock of the implementation of gender-sensitive provisions for women at workplaces across the country by asking high courts to report establishment of internal complaints committee across all courts and tribunals and directed states, union territories to comply with statutory requirement of appointing district and nodal officers for redressal of sexual harassment complaints. In two separate proceedings, the court passed the orders - the first being a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by one Geeta Rani seeking uniform implementation of The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 or POSH Act, and the other being a pending petition filed by a victim of sexual harassment where the court is monitoring countrywide directions issued to states and UTs to give full effect to the Act provisions. In the first case, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant called for a status report from all high courts on whether Gender Sensitisation and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC) have been constituted by all high courts, district or sub-divisional courts, tribunals, bar associations and other allied courts to deal with sexual harassment complaints filed by women and transgender persons. Appearing for the petitioner Geeta Rani, senior advocate Sonia Mathur said that seven high courts have not framed regulations for setting up these committees, while district courts under the high courts of Delhi, Punjab & Haryana, are yet to form GSICC. The bench, also comprising justice Joymalya Bagchi, issued notice on the petition to all high courts to know the implementation of the 2013 Act across all judicial forums. The petition said, "The absence of a gender-sensitized complaint-handling structure in many courts, bar associations and tribunals results in serious constitutional violations and discourages women from fully participating in the justice delivery process." In a separate proceeding, a bench of justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan dealt with the issue of implementation of POSH Act provisions across states and UTs and was informed that following a survey carried out by states/UTs on court orders, several public and private establishments were yet to form internal complaints committee, district officers, nodal officers for effective reporting mechanism of sexual harassment complaints. The bench directed the status report to be shared with all states/UTs and sought their responses in three weeks....