The Supreme Court of India quashed a workplace harassment case involving a female employee and her colleagues. The employee, who was female, accused her coworkers of making her resign under threat of being fired, of taking her things and of being physically and verbally harassed. She also alleged that her intellectual property on a company laptop had been illegally seized. The Court of Appeal held that the allegations were of embellished employment disputes being elevated to criminal matters, with the objective of pressuring the appellants into settling the dispute. A bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Prashant Kumar Mishra said the complaint did not fulfill the ingredients of the alleged offenses. The Apex Court quashed the High Court order which had refused to quash the criminal proceedings. It ruled that the criminal proceedings had been launched with mala fide intent to harm or to coerce for a settlement. The Court held that none of the allegations satisfied the necessary legal funding for criminal charges to be brought under IPC. The SUPREME COURT permitted the appeal and quashed the pending criminal case against the appellants holding, that the complaint did not provide the necessary factual basis that would constitute the alleged offenses.