This Connect provides a brief overview of the judgement of the Bombay High Court in the Bharat Aviation Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. v. Rahul Sudhindra Soni case, where it held that if an employee acts in violation of a valid service bond, then the employer of such employee is not obligated to issue relieving letter and separation certificate to such employee. The HC further reiterated that such withholding of relieving letter shall not be violative of Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872.