The Supreme Court on Wednesday (December 10) held that when a woman is subjected to sexual harassment at the workplace by a person who is not part of her own organisation, she is entitled to file her complaint before the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) of her own workplace, and not before the ICC of the third party's establishment.

“if the aggrieved woman had to approach the ICC constituted at the workplace of the 'respondent' for every third-party incident, it would fall short of the aforesaid object.”, observed a bench of Justice J.K. Maheshwari and Justice Vijay Bishnoi , while dismissing an appeal filed by an IRS officer accused of sexually harassing the IAS respondent at her workplace.

The case stemmed from an incident on May 15, 2023, where an IAS officer (the aggrieved wo

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