Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1415 · Decided 10 December 2025
DR. Sohail Malik v. Union of India & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1415 · [2025] 12 S.C.R. 505
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 404/2024
- Decided
- 10 December 2025
- Bench
- J.K. MAHESHWARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
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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