- Any woman employee or female student will have the right to lodge a complaint concerning sexual harassment against a male student or the employee of the University or the members of the Authorities of the University, by writing a letter to the Registrar of the University or putting the complaint in the Complaint Box, which is to be placed in the University Office.
- The Complaint Box is to be opened once in a week by the Secretary of the Cell, and the complaint, if any, is to be informed to the Chairman of the Cell.
- The complainant will be afforded full confidentially at this stage.
- After receiving the complaint, the Chairperson shall convene a meeting of the cell, as the case may be, to deal with it.
- The Chairperson may appoint the Investigation Committee, as the case may be, after consulting the President of the Cell.
- Whenever the Investigation Committee is set up by the Chairman, the Convener shall convene a meeting for which advance intimation will be given to the complainant.
- At the first meeting the complainant or at her request her representative shall be heard.
- The Investigation Committee shall then decide whether the complaint deserves to be proceeded with.
- The complaint will stand dropped if accordance to the committee the complainant has not been able to disclose prima-facie an offence of sexual harassment.
- In case, the Investigation Committee decides to proceed with the complaint the wishes of the complainant shall be ascertained and if the complainant wishes that a warning would suffice then the alleged offender shall be called to the meeting of the Committee, heard and if so satisfied that a warning is just and proper he may be warned about his behavior. The matter will then be treated as concluded with a recording to that effect made in the complaint Register.
- In case the complainant requests that the complaint should be proceeded with beyond a mere warning, the same may be proceeded with in the manner prescribed hereafter.
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