The DPDP Act Double-Whammy: Why an Untrained Internal Committee Is Now a Two-Law Liability

If your Internal Committee (IC) still treats a PoSH complaint as “just an HR matter,” it is time for a hard reset. Since India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 came into force with its Rules notified on November 14, 2025, and enforcement powers phasing in through 2026 and 2027, every PoSH complaint your IC handles is now also a data protection event. Handle it badly, and you are no longer looking at a single compliance failure. You are looking at two. This is the DPDP Act…