<span style="color: #222222;">The Madras High Court has held that just an intemperate language by an official against a female employee cannot be considered as an act of sexual harassment. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">An Assistant Registrar in the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Office in Chennai complained against the Deputy Registrar under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act. After crossing several steps, the Central Administrative Tribunal gave an order in favour of the complainant. The case finally landed up in the Madras High Court.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">After hearing both the sides, the Division Bench comprising Justices M.Satyanarayanan and R.Hemalatha held that a solitary allegation of intemperate language against a female employee does not constitute an offence under the Sexual Harassment Act. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It further said, every office has to maintain decorum and the women employee cannot be allowed to go scot-free without completing their assignments. It added the administrative head of the office has every right to extract the work that is expected of the staff. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It said if a woman employee is discriminated against due to her inefficiency or for any other official reasons, the recourse for her is not to misuse the Sexual Harassment Act. The High Court also struck down the CAT order against the head of the office.</span><br />