Maharashtra Navnirman Kaamgar Sena v. State of Maharashtra through Office of Government Pleader, and 3 Ors.

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High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Ordinary Original Civil Jurisdiction; Writ Petition No. 4398 of 2024 with Writ Petition Nos. 4439, 4436, 4315, 4365 and 4416 of 2024; decided 24 April 2026 by R. I. Chagla and Advait M. Sethna, JJ. (judgment signed by Advait M. Sethna, J.). Petitioner: Maharashtra Navnirman Kaamgar Sena (counsel Sanjeev Gorwadkar, Senior Advocate, with Abhijit Tulsankar and Amul Jawale); Respondent No.1: State of Maharashtra (AGPs/Addl.GPs Manish Upadhye, Akshay Patkar, Anupamaa Pawar, Varsha Sawant, Vishal Thadani, Milind More); Respondent No.2: Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai/BMC (counsel Neeta Karnik, Senior Advocate, with Rupali Adhate and Komal Punjabi); Respondent No.4 represented by Vijay Vaidya with Jayesh K. Desai. Subject: minimum wages; implementation of Notification dated 24 February 2015 issued by Respondent No.1-State under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948; pending representation dated 21 October 2024 to the Labour Commissioner. Disposition: petitions disposed of by referral to Labour Commissioner - additional representation by Petitioners within two weeks; say by MCGM within two weeks; hearing to both parties and reasoned order by Labour Commissioner within 12 weeks; liberty to challenge any adverse order; no opinion expressed on merits; rights and contentions kept open; no order as to costs.