1. This writ petition, under Article 226 of the Constitution of
India, assails judgment dated 30 May 2025, passed by the Principal
Bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal1 in OA 1024/20252.
2. Following a complaint lodged by a lady officer whom we
would, for obvious reasons, anonymise and refer to as X, of sexual
“the Tribunal”, hereinafter
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harassment at the hands of the petitioner during his tenure as a
Commander at the Naval Dockyard, Vishakhapatnam, an inquiry was
initiated and conducted by the Internal Complaints Committee 3 in
terms of Section 4 of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace
(Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 20134.