Supreme Court of India

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

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Reported as [2025] 12 S.C.R. 505
Bench J.K. Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi JJ.
Decided 10 December 2025

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, the Complaints Committee when investigating the allegations should make recommendations on whether there is a prima facie substance in the allegations which calls for conducting a formal inquiry.

Judgment, page 37

From the headnote

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; whether the use of the words ‘where 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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