law: Companies Act, 2013 
  218.
  
    Protection
  
  of employees during investigation.
  1.      Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, ifŚ
  a.     
  
    during
  
  the course of any investigation of the affairs and other matters of or relating
  
  to a company, other body corporate or person under section 210, section 212,
  
  section 213 or section 219 or of the membership and other matters of or
  
  relating to a company, or the ownership of shares in or debentures of a company
  
  or body corporate, or the affairs and other matters of or relating to a
  
  company, other body corporate or person, under section 216; or
  b.    
  
    during
  
  the pendency of any proceeding against any person concerned in the conduct and
  
  management of the affairs of a company under Chapter XVI, such company, other
  
  body corporate or person proposesŚ
                       
  
   i.        
  
    to
  
  discharge or suspend any employee; or
                      
  
   ii.        
  
    to
  
  punish him, whether by dismissal, removal, reduction in rank or otherwise; or
                     
  
   iii.        
  
    to
  
  change the terms of employment to his disadvantage, the company, other body
  
  corporate or person, as the case may be, shall obtain approval of the Tribunal
  
  of the action proposed against the employee and if the Tribunal has any
  
  objection to the action proposed, it shall send by post notice thereof in
  
  writing to the company, other body corporate or person concerned.
  1.     
  2.      If the company, other
  
  body corporate or person concerned does not receive within thirty days of
  
  making of application under sub-section (1 ), the approval of the
  
  Tribunal, then and only then, the company, other body corporate or person
  
  concerned may proceed to take against the employee, the action proposed.
  3.      If the company, other
  
  body corporate or person concerned is dissatisfied with the objection raised by
  
  the Tribunal, it may, within a period of thirty days of the receipt of the
  
  notice of the objection, prefer an appeal to the Appellate Tribunal in such
  
  manner and on payment of such fees as may be prescribed.
  4.      The decision of the
  
  Appellate Tribunal on such appeal shall be final and binding on the Tribunal
  
  and on the company, other body corporate or person concerned.
  5.      For the removal of
  
  doubts, it is hereby declared that the provisions of this section shall have
  
  effect without prejudice to the provisions of any other law for the time being
  
  in force.