New Delhi, March 1 -- The Kerala High Court granted anticipatory bail to a man accused of sexual harassment, observing that there is no presumption that everything a woman says in her complainant is "gospel truth" as nowadays there is a tendency to implicate innocent men in criminal cases, including sexual assault.

The high court said that in the instant case, police did not investigate the accused's initial complaint that the woman had verbally abused and made threats against him after he fired her for not working properly.

The court noted that the investigation of a criminal case means probing the case of the complainant and the accused.

"There cannot be any unilateral investigation of the case put up by the complainant alone. Merely...