Apex Digest

Dr Sohail Malik v. Union of India

(2025) INSC 1415

Whether the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) constituted in one department of the Central Government has jurisdiction to entertain a complaint of sexual harassment under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 against an employee of a different department; and whether the phrase 'where the respondent is an employee' in Section 11 mandates that ICC proceedings must be instituted at the respondent's workplace.