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6. None of the laws provides for a presumption wherein a complaint by a women against a man or vice-versa conveyed to a third person is to be presumed to be true. The day such presumptions are legally allowed, there wouldn't be inquiries and the moment a friend or some other person ratifies the complaint of the complainant, action would be launched straightway as is permissible in a few extreme cases under the Indian Evidence Act eg dowry death and abetment to suicide of a woman etc. That would open a gateway to many innocents facing a similar ordeal and facilitating the conceited women workers to openly start blackmailing their male colleagues or superiors as in the instant case. Even in landmark judgment in Vishakh's case, the apex court of our country, while defining harassment at workplace, has not suggested any adverse presumption to be taken simply because a complaint has been lodged. That is why apex court had laid down the guidelines for investigating into such complaints by a committee first to infer its correctness or otherwise.