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PETITIONER: MANOHAR LAL
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF PUNJAB
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 11/11/1960
BENCH: AYYANGAR, N. RAJAGOPALA BENCH: AYYANGAR, N. RAJAGOPALA IMAM, SYED JAFFER KAPUR, J.L. GUPTA, K.C. DAS DAYAL, RAGHUBAR
CITATION: 1961 AIR 418 1961 SCR (2) 343 CITATOR INFO : R 1961 SC1559 (9) APL 1962 SC 316 (56)
ACT: Trade Employees--Close day--Enactment, if violative of fundamental rights--Workers’ Welfare--Protection-- Restriction, if unreasonable--Punjab Trade Employees Act, 1940, (Punj. X of 1940) s. 7 (1)
HEADNOTE: The appellant who was a shopkeeper was convicted for the second time by the Additional District Magistrate for contravening the provisions of s. 7(1) of the Punjab Trade Employees Act, 1940, under which he was required to keep his shop closed on the day which he had himself chosen as a " close day ". He raised the plea that the Act did not apply to his shop as he did not employ any stranger but that himself alone worked in it and that the application of s. 7(1) to his shop would be violative of his fundamental rights under Arts. 14, 19(1)(f) and (g) of the Constitution and also that the restriction imposed was not reasonable within Art. 19(6) as it was not in the interest of the general 344 public. The High Court dismissed his application for revision of the Magistrate’s order. On ...