01. Regulatory Updates
Maharashtra Government notifies Industrial Courts as
Appellate Authority under the Sexual Harassment of Women at
Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (PoSH
Act)
By way of a notification in the Official Gazette dated 31 March
2021, the Industries, Energy and Labour Department, Government of
Maharashtra, appointed Industrial Courts constituted under Section
10 of the Maharashtra Industrial Relations Act, 1947, as the
Appellate Authority under the PoSH Act.
This development comes against the backdrop of the order of a
Division Bench of the Bombay High Court in the case of
Dasharath Kallappa Bhosale v State of Maharashtra & Others
[Writ Petition Number 786 of 2021], wherein the petitioner
challenged an order passed by the Local Complaints Committee, Pune,
imposing penalty on the petitioner under the PoSH Act. An appeal
was preferred before the Industrial Court, Pune, which was rejected
on the ground that no notification
