HC imposes Rs 2 lakh cost on Adani Electricity to be paid to workers’ union
The Bombay High Court, while hearing a writ plea filed by Adani Electricity Limited, Mumbai, against orders of the industrial court, has imposed a cost of Rs 2 lakh on the company to be paid to Mumbai Electric Workers’ Union within three months.
The electricity generation and supplier company had claimed that provisions of the Maharashtra Industrial Relations Act, 1946, do not apply to it and therefore, all orders passed after August 2019 by the industrial court against it be struck down.
The HC held that it was rightly contended by the union’s lawyer that the plea was “an effort to tire out the members of the union in their battle with the petitioning company”.
