India, June 25 -- The Maharashtra government is taking proactive measures to prevent atrocities against women, especially concerning religious conversion and sexual exploitation at the workplace, announced chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in the legislative assembly on Wednesday.

Fadnavis announced that a committee of women lawmakers will be constituted shortly to review the existing legal framework and recommend reforms, if needed.

He was responding to questions in the house about the controversy around alleged religious conversions at a BPO linked to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Nashik recently. "We have laws but they are not fully implemented. When these laws were first prepared, there weren't as many private workplaces and the...