law: The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013
  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 often
  
  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.
  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:
  Provided 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.
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  employer or the District Officer shall act upon the recommendation within sixty
  
  days of its receipt by him. Punishment for false or malicious complaint and
  
  false evidence