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Delhi High Court · 2025-10-16

DR. AMIT PRASAD vs UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

Citation / case number
W.P.(C)-15531/2025 2025:DHC:9243-DB
Court
Delhi High Court
Petitioner
DR. AMIT PRASAD
Respondent
UNION OF INDIA & ORS.
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Judgment text excerpt

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI W.P.(C) 15531/2025, CM APPLs. 63501/2025, 63502/2025, 64718/2025 & 64734/2025 DR. AMIT PRASAD .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Nitin Joshi, Mr. Harsimran Singh, Mr. Gursimran Singh and Mr. M. Tauqeer Khan, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Naginder Benipal, Sr. PC with Mr. Amit Acharya, GP, Mr. Ankit Siwach, Mr. Udit Vaghela, Mr. Jaskaran Singh, Mr. Saarthak Sethi and Mr. Arjun Baliyan, Advs. for UOI CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE OM PRAKASH SHUKLA ORDER (ORAL) % 16.10.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. In view of the fact that the Internal Complaints Committee1, constituted in terms of Section 4(2)(a) of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 was headed by a man, Mr. Ankit Siwach, learned Counsel for the respondents, on instructions from Mr. Bhalendu Trivedi, Commandant / CI submits that the respondents are willing not to proceed on the basis of the findings of the ICC against which the petitioner is aggrieved, with liberty to proceed in accordance with law. 1 “ICC”, hereinafter 2. Needless to say, should the petitioner be aggrieved by