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The Kerala High Court has held that an institution’s Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) tin inquire into a intersexual harassment ailment against the manager of an institution, if the idiosyncratic (the director) does not person afloat power implicit its affairs, and was appointed by the institution’s enforcement committee.
The tribunal went connected to disregard an entreaty that was filed by the appellant, who served arsenic the Director of Integrated Rural Technology Center, Palakkad, and was accused by an worker nether the Sexual Harassment of Women astatine Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act). The ICC of the instauration had taken up the ailment and directed him to look earlier it, aft which the Director challenged earlier the HC the jurisdiction of the ICC successful investigating the matter.
The HC, aft considering the applicable sections of the POSH Act, dismissed the entreaty and stated that if a ailment of intersexual harassment is raised by an worker successful the workplace from the hands of different employee, past the substance has to beryllium enquired into by the ICC. If the ailment is against the leader himself oregon if an ICC is not constituted, past the said ailment has to beryllium enquired into by the section committee.
