Section 13 — Inquiry report.

13. Inquiry report.—(1) On the completion of an inquiry under this Act, the Internal Committee or 

the Local Committee, as the case may be, shall provide a report of its findings to the employer, or as the 

case may be, the District Officer within a period of ten days from the date of completion of the inquiry 

and such report be made available to the concerned parties. 

(2) Where the Internal Committee or the Local Committee, as the case may be, arrives at the 

conclusion that the allegation against the respondent has not been proved, it shall recommend to the 

employer and the District Officer that no action is required to be taken in the matter. 



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(3) Where the Internal Committee or the Local Committee, as the case may be, arrives at the 

conclusion that the allegation against the respondent has been proved, it shall recommend to the employer 

or the District Officer, as the case may be— 

(i) to take action for  sexual harassment as a misconduct in accordance with the provisions of the 

service rules applicable to the respondent or where no such service rules have been made, in such 

manner as may be prescribed; 

(ii) to deduct, notwithstanding anything in the service rules applicable to the respondent, from the 

salary or wages of the respondent such sum as it may consider appropriate to be paid to the aggrieved 

woman or to her legal heirs, as it may determine, in accordance with the provisions of section 15: 

Provide that in case the employer is unable to make such deduction from the salary of the 

respondent due to his being absent from duty or cessation of employment it may direct to the 

respondent to pay such sum to the aggrieved woman: 

Provided further that in case the respondent fails to pay the sum referred to in clause (ii), the 

Internal Committee or as, the case may be, the Local Committee may forward the order for recovery 

of the sum as an arrear of land revenue to the concerned District Officer. 

(4) The employer or the District Officer shall act upon the recommendation within sixty days of its 

receipt by him.