If your Internal Committee (IC) still treats a PoSH complaint as "just an HR matter," it is time for a hard reset. Since India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 came into force with its Rules notified on November 14, 2025, and enforcement powers phasing in through 2026 and 2027, every PoSH complaint your IC handles is now also a data protection event. Handle it badly, and you are no longer looking at a single compliance failure. You are looking at two. This

The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (the POSH Act) is a cornerstone of Indian social welfare legislation designed to protect women's constitutional rights to equality, dignity, and a safe work environment. However, a persistent and highly contentious legal loophole has troubled corporate legal departments, HR professionals, and Internal Complaints Committees (ICCs): Can an employer or an ICC shield a threshold rejectio

Case: Ravi Kant Yadav v. Union of India & Others, Writ–A No. 6120 of 2026 Court: High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Judge: Hon'ble Pankaj Bhatia, J. Order dated: 10 August 2026 The Allahabad High Court has agreed to examine a question that Internal Committees across India quietly face but rarely litigate: Can a complaint that is essentially the product of marital discord be routed through the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition