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Dr. Sohail Malik v. Union of India & Anr.

Issue arose whether the Internal Complaints Committee-ICC constituted in one department of the Central Government has the jurisdiction to entertain a complaint…

Dismissed
Court
Supreme Court of India
Decided
10 Dec 2025
Citation
[2025] 12 S.C.R. 505
Case no.
CIVIL APPEAL No. 404/2024
Bench
J.k. Maheshwari

Issue for consideration

Issue arose whether the Internal Complaints Committee-ICC constituted in one department of the Central Government has the jurisdiction to entertain a complaint of sexual harassment under the POSH Act against an employee of a different department of the Central Government; the respondent is an employee’ as contained in s.11 of the POSH Act would mandate that ICC proceedings must be instituted and carried out at the workplace of the ‘respondent’ instead of the workplace of the aggrieved woman where incident occurred and complaint was

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