A female employee has lodged fir against 40 employees (including some female co-workers) for s*xual harassment in the workplace at Noida office. She had also complained the same at the office for which Internal Committee inquiry was made. Report of the same is not out yet but we got to know that accused employees are safe while her allegations are fake.
Out of allegations I have been blamed for passing foul comments on her. Most importantly she did this as she was not happy with her appraisal so has targeted entire team with some or the other allegations. In FIR we have been charged IPC 354, 509. Police inquiry was made which was just a formality and threatening us that they will mention our names in charge sheet and we will then have to appear many times in court.
We arranged a lawyer for us and got us have the stay on arrest bail. This incidence which she complains of is six months old and none of the parties have any evidence to prove their part. Only one accused female staff once mailed HR that the complainant has threatened her (accused female manager ) to complain against her and her team, what kind of complaint she meant is ambiguous.Case was lodged 1&1/2 months back with both police and office.
Kindly help me out
I have the following queries :
1. Can police make chargesheet and named us as accused without any evidence against us.
2. Police is actually asking for bribe and does not seem to investigate the case. Shall we pay and get the case closed when we are not at fault. Is this good solution.
3. Is it possible to quash the fir in court. If yes, then what is the procedure
4. IC inquiry report is pending and fir has been lodged what would be the next step or things we will have to deal with
