The Bombay High Court at Goa held that s.14 of the POSH Act penalises a woman (or a person filing on her behalf) for a false and malicious complaint, but provides no punishment for a third party who instigates one. It also held that an Internal Committee cannot record a named instigator as an 'unknown' source where his identity is disclosed in the retraction letter that closed the complaint.
Valkya Editorial··8 min
TribunalNational Company Law Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi
A clean NCLAT ruling on a question that had been quietly bedeviling resolution professionals across the country: can the EPFO continue assessment proceedings during a moratorium under Section 14 of the IBC? The Tribunal has held that it cannot — and that an assessment order passed during CIRP is, accordingly, unenforceable against the corporate debtor.