law: The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013
  11. Inquiry Into complaint
  1.   Subject
  
  to the provisions of section 10, the Internal Committee or the Local Committee,
  
  as the case may be, shall, where the respondent is an employee, proceed to make
  
  inquiry into the complaint in accordance with the provisions of the service
  
  rules applicable to the respondent and where no such rules exist, in such
  
  manner as may be prescribed or in case of a domestic worker, the Local
  
  Committee shall, if prima facie case exist, forward the complaint to the
  
  police, within a period of seven days for registering the case under section
  
  509 of the Indian Penal Code, and any other relevant provisions of the said
  
  Code where applicable:
  Provided that where the
  
  aggrieved woman informs the Internal Committee or the Local Committee, as the case
  
  may be, that any term or condition of the settlement arrived at under
  
  sub-section (2) of section 10 has not been complied with by the respondent, the
  
  Internal Committee or the Local Committee shall proceed to make an inquiry into
  
  the complaint or, as the case may be, forward the complaint to the police:
  Provided further that where
  
  both the parties are employees, the parties shall, during the course of
  
  inquiry, be given an opportunity of being heard and a copy of the findings
  
  shall be made available to both the parties enabling them to make
  
  representation against the findings before the Committee.
  2.   Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in section 509 of the Indian Penal Code, the court may, when
  
  the respondent is convicted of the offence, order payment of such sums as it
  
  may consider appropriate, to the aggrieved woman by the respondent, having
  
  regard to the provisions of section 15.
  3.   For
  
  the purpose of making an inquiry under sub-section (I), the Internal Committee.
  
  or the Local Committee, as the case may be, shall have the same powers as are
  
  vested in a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 when trying a
  
  suit in respect of the following matters, namely:--
  a.   summoning
  
  and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;
  b.   requiring
  
  the discovery and production of documents; and
  c.   any
  
  other matter which may be prescribed.
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  4.   The
  
  inquiry under sub-section (I) shall be completed within a period of ninety
  
  days.