BEYOND THE BINARY: ANALYZING INTERSECTIONAL BARRIERS TO JUSTICE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION CRISIS OF ANTI-HARASSMENT LAWS FOR MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES IN INDIA

BEYOND THE BINARY: ANALYZING INTERSECTIONAL BARRIERS TO JUSTICE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION CRISIS OF ANTI-HARASSMENT LAWS FOR MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES IN INDIA Astha Pandey, BALLB/5th year/10 semester Student at Amity Law School Lucknow (India) Dr. Kunvar Dushyant Singh, Assistant Professor at Amity Law School Lucknow (India) Download Manuscript doi.org/10.70183/lijdlr.2026.v04.39 This paper examines how India’s anti-harassment legal regime, This paper examines how India’s anti-harassment legal regime, while formally grounded in equality and dignity, often fails to deliver effective remedies for persons whose lived identities do not align with dominant, binary and majoritarian assumptions embedded in institutional practice. Using an intersectional lens, it argues that harassment is not merely an individual wrong but a structural harm produced through overlapping hierarchies of gender, caste, class, disability, sexuality, religion, migration status, and workplace precarity.