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PETITIONER: 1340 SHRI CHINTAMAN RAO & ANOTHER
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 18/02/1958
BENCH: SUBBARAO, K. BENCH: SUBBARAO, K. SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P. IMAM, SYED JAFFER
CITATION: 1958 AIR 388 1958 SCR 1340
ACT: Worker-Test for determining-Sattedars contracting to supply bidis to bidi factory and coolies of such Sattedars-If workers in the factory-Factories Act (LXIII of 1948), SS. 2(1), 62, 63 and 92.
HEADNOTE: The appellant was the manager of a bidi factory which had contracts with certain independent contractors, known as Sattedars, for the supply of bidis. The Sattedars undertook to supply the bidis by manufacturing them in their own factories or by entrusting the work to third parties, a’ a price to. be paid by the management after delivery and approval. The Inspector of Factories found working in the appellant’s factory certain Sattedars and their coolies who had come to deliver bides manufactured by them. The appellant was prosecuted and convicted under s. 92, Factories Act for violation of the provisions of ss. 62 and 63 for failure to maintain the register of adult workers and for allowing the workers to work in the factory without making beforehand the entries of their attendance in the register : Held, that the Sattedars and their coolies were not workers within the definition in S. 2...