Editing Sri Aurobindo Ashram (section)

== Controversy ==
In compliance with the Central Government's Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust constituted an Internal Complaints Committee in April 2014.<ref name=SAAICC>{{citation|title=Resolution No. 1270|date=7 April 2014| url=http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/regulatory/|access-date=6 January 2016}}</ref>

In 2001, a female member was expelled from the ashram for violating a "mandatory rule".<ref name=menon>{{citation|title=Report of the Enquiry Officer at the High Court of Chennai|date=24 October 2002| url=https://wellwishersofsaa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2002_10_menon_enquiry_report.pdf|access-date=14 January 2014}}</ref> Thereafter she filed charges of sexual harassment against various members. These charges were dismissed by committees and government agencies, all of which found the charges false.<ref name=JMP>{{citation|title=Judgment of The Judicial Magistrate at Pondicherry|date=23 November 2004| url=https://wellwishersofsaa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2004-11_judgement_jm_pondicherry.pdf|access-date=14 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=FFEO>{{citation|title=Report of the Fact Finding Enquiry Officer (Government of Pondicherry) in the matter of complaints among the residents in Ambabhikshu House and certain other Ashramites|date=10 January 2005| url=https://wellwishersofsaa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2005_1_nagaraj_enquiry_report.pdf|access-date=14 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=ChargesFalse>{{cite journal|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2005/01/19/stories/2005011902791300.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150118160940/http://www.thehindu.com/2005/01/19/stories/2005011902791300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 January 2015|title=Charges against Aurobindo Ashram false|date=19 January 2005|journal=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=14 January 2015}}</ref><ref name=ERNHRC>{{citation|title=Enquiry Report of the National Human Right Commission, New Delhi|date=12 April 2005| url=https://wellwishersofsaa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2005_04_nhrc_report.pdf|access-date=14 January 2014}}</ref> The then chairperson of the [[National Commission for Women]] added that there "appeared to be malicious planning behind the complaints".<ref>{{cite news|title=Five Aurobindo ashram inmates defy HC orders|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/article186323.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140815015522/http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/article186323.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 August 2014|newspaper=The New Indian Express|date=24 July 2010}}</ref>