NEW DELHI: Internal Complaints Committee ( ICC ) is meant to tackle sexual harassment at workplace and help affected women, not to tarnish reputation of an accused until proven guilty , Delhi high court said.Justice Najmi Waziri in a recent order said, the task of ICC is not to assume guilt of a person accused of harassment but to go by the evidence. Internal complaints panel is mandatory in every organisation following the Supreme Court’s guidelines in Vishakha case on combating sexual harassment. HC quashed an order of ICC where it concluded that an officer of Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) was guilty of sexual harassment. HC found that the “conclusion was not borne out from the facts and cannot be sustained” granting him relief.Justice Waziri put on record his disapproval with the manner in which internal committee of IGL went about the task and indicted the officer despite lack of evidence.“The dignity of neither party can be trifled with in an inquiry proceedings,” the court observed, after it found that inquiry report had not found the officer guilty, yet inferred that he indulged in behaviour that was “more than failure, even flirtatious, in terms of transgressing the lines of acceptable behaviours at a work place.”HC said there was nothing on record to support the ICC’s inference and even the circumstantial evidence was in favour of the accused.