The Madhya Pradesh High Court has imposed fine of Rs. 50,000 on a Hospital in Indore for not having an Internal Complaints Committee, required to be constituted under Section 4(1) of the Sexual Harassment of Women At Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (the Act). It also directed the hospital to pay compensation to the tune of Rs. 25 lakhs to the Complainant in the case for failing to address her case of sexual harassment.
The above order was passed by Justice Rohit Arya of MP High Court. The Local Committee, in a case made over to it by the Directorate of Women Empowerment, MP, had held that the Complainant, Senior Manager Marketing at the Hospital, was subjected to sexual harassment under Section 2(n) read with Section 3(2) the Act. It was noted that the hospital had failed to address the humiliation and harassment faced by the Complainant on account of a…
