Kerala High Court in The Managing Director, HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd. & Ors. v. Suresh Babu and Anr. case, where an employee was terminated from his services for sexually harassing employees at workplace, opined on the essentials of ICC Hearing in a POSH complaint. While it held that failure to cross-examine witnesses in the presence of respondents did not amount to violation of principles of natural justice, for other reasons it directed the ICC to re-conduct inquiry and gave specific directions.