Organizations should take note that the law against sexual harassment at workplace came into effect only in 2013 and it provides that complaints must be filed within 3 months from the date of incident (and at max within 6 months) for IC to consider it. Hence, while they are not legally bound to take complaints of incidents that may be alleged to have happened before 2013, however, as healthy practice it may be advisable to take them…” said Shivangi Prasad, Partner of advisory firm POSH at Work. Prasad adds that it is good to keep these incidences on record, because in future if similar accusation emerges against the respondents, companies can use it as evidence.
