The Maharashtra government has announced a committee of women legislators to review existing laws on workplace sexual harassment and alleged religious conversion, and to recommend amendments. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced the move in the Legislative Council on June 24, 2026.
The committee will draw women legislators from both Houses of the state legislature. Their brief is to study existing legal provisions and past incidents tied to workplace sexual harassment and alleged religious conversion, then submit recommendations to the government.
“The state government will certainly implement the measures suggested by the committee,” Fadnavis told the House.
The announcement followed a question raised during Question Hour by BJP MLC Chitra Wagh about an alleged case of sexual harassment and attempted religious conversion involving a woman employee at the Tata Consultancy Services office in Nashik. Fadnavis told the Council that multiple cases had been registered in connection with the incident, and that the employee’s manager had also been named as an accused.
He said a particular modus operandi was allegedly being used in some corporate workplaces to facilitate religious conversion, and acknowledged that while Maharashtra has laws covering both sexual harassment and unlawful religious conversion, their implementation remains inadequate.
The TCS Nashik case has been building since April 2026, when the company suspended employees over the allegations, nine FIRs were filed, and a Special Investigation Team began probing. Shiv Sena MLC Manisha Kayande, addressing the press after the Assembly session, widened the claims, alleging conversion pressure and harassment complaints across multiple workplaces, including the TCS Nashik office, Wipro Pune, SBI Mumbai and Government ITI Solapur.
