What comes under moonlighting in india ?

I want to know if freelancing, tutoring, content writing etc comes under moonlighting and how to avoid being noticed in my current full time job? Any suggestions are appreciated

Hi, I am currently working as an SDE in India. I want to start a small business (online consultancy) with a friend which will require some legal stuff like GST and partnership firm/company registration in India. For the initial days of the business, we will be working full time as well and will work on our business in our free time. If this scales well, we'll probably leave our jobs and work on the business full time. Now, I have a few questions regarding this - is it a case of moonlighting? - What will happen if my employer gets to know this in the future? - What are the legal implications in India for this? - What are the workarounds for this? I've seen many people selling some courses or having a restaurant or some small business along with full time employment. How do they manage to do so?

Note - Not working for competitor company In this situation where a employer can hire and fire anyone anytime, why “moonlighting” or working part time, having a business, doing something of your own should be problem? If a employer can dump their employees anytime then they have to look for themselves, they have life, expenses, dependencies. This is a high time companies change their points on this in appointment letters and contracts. What do you guys think?

I'm working full time in a company, I'm also moonlighting in another startup, but not sure how much I should invoice them. My payment is based on story or task based. Can anyone guide?

In the current scenario, I can't rely on only one source of income. Can you give me some tips on how to get a moonlight job and how to handle the work at both places and how to hide the info of my moonlight job. Also if your are an ex-/moonlighter then do share your own experience.

Don't tell me the Upwork or Fiverr because they are more crowded or tell me any other platform or any resource where you get good results for finding the freelancing projects.

Jupiter, the planet, not the company xD Okay but seriously though, my friend who works at a startup, is also in a freelancing company (all remote). He asked me to contact my ex company for a possible referral....and that he's actively looking for a 3rd job. I mean work wise, I'm pretty sure he's using AI tools to work on 2 (now possibly 3) jobs. But won't companies find out, based on his form 16 (I'm kind of a newbie on taxation)? How do companies not realise this or is it that companies can't really find out (?) Explain in detail how to pull this off :3

29M , 7 yoe. Have a full time job plus running my own freelancing gig servicing multiple clients across the world

How to get pseudo support jobs? I have a friend who does work of foreign clients(their office work) during India time and earns good amount.

Question to guys who are working part time for a startup Or foreign client along with a regular job.. How do you manage payments and hide your side-gig from your primary employer? Can you take payments in your own account or in account of someone else? How do you ensure your employer don't find out.. Perhaps use a different laptop .