TN Advocate General Constitutes ICC To Deal With Sexual Harassment Complaints Against Law Officers Of Madras High Court

In his order, AG R Shunmugasundaram said that he received a complaint of sexual harassment from a lawyer against a Senior Law Officer of the Madras High Court after which the ICC was constituted as contemplated under Section 4 of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013.

Senior Advocate R Vaigai will be the Presiding Officer of the ICC. Other members of the ICC are Haja Nazirudeen, Additional Advocate General-1; S Mythereye Chandru, Special Government Pleader; GV Kasthuri, Additional Public Prosecutor and Vidhya Reddy of TULIR NGO. T Dharaneeswaran, Deputy Director in the office of the AG will be the member secretary of the ICC.

Any victim of sexual harassment may send their complaints to the Member Secretary of the ICC at the email ID dd.hc@tn.ag.in or through the contact number 044-29550283/284.

Any complaint received by the Member secretary has to be placed before the ICC forthwith for further action.