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The Madras high court has directed the Union defence ministry to ensure the Indian Armed Forces have proper existence of the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) and to impart gender-sensitive awareness training while disposing of a case related to the 2021 rape complaint by an Indian Air Force (IAF) woman officer against her colleague in Tamil Nadus Coimbatore.o)..
The 28-year-old woman officer had filed a complaint with the local police in Coimbatore after she felt that the IAF authorities further victimised her while investigating the accused IAF flight lieutenant Amitesh Harmukh, 29..
The Madras high court order comes while disposing of a petition filed by the state for Coimbatores All Women Police Station against a lower courts order handing over the custody of the accused to the IAF authorities before the police could complete the investigation..
The justice further issued eight guidelines to the criminal courts for dealing with the matters of handing over custody of the subjects of armed forces and also directed the Centre to ensure the proper existence of ICCs as per the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act of 2013..
The rape survivor filed a complaint with the college authorities following which a fact-finding Court of Inquiry was formed, but medical specimens were not sent for forensic analysis for more than 10 days while the accused was roaming freely on campus and even allowed to sit along with the rape survivor in the classes..
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