Political Parties Not Bound To Establish Internal Complaints Committee Under POSH Act : Kerala High Court
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Political Parties Not Bound To Establish Internal Complaints Committee Under POSH Act : Kerala High Court

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In a significant decision, the Kerala High Court on Thursday observed that political parties are not legally liable to establish Internal Complaints Commitee as per the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013 since there is no employer-employee relationship among its members. The observation came in the PIL moved by the Centre for Constitutional Rights Research and Advocacy seeking directions to constitute Internal Complaints Committee within political parties in accordance with the POSH Act 2013. So that clause 2 would not come into play so far as the contentions advanced in the writ petitions are concerned against the respondents in the writ petition because there is no case for the petitioners that any of the organisations and the political parties would come under the term "appropriate Government" or "local body" so as to persuade such organisations to constitute an Internal Complaints Committee." In the same judgment, the Court also held that film production houses have the responsibility to form an Internal Complaints Committee as per the POSH Act observing that each film unit in an industry is an establishment and an ICC needs to be constituted for that purpose.

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