M/S.B.H.E.L. vs STATE OF U.P. — C.A. No. 2459 - 2461/1999

Summary of BHEL v. State of U.P. (C.A. No. 002459-002461/1999) The Supreme Court dismissed BHEL's appeals, upholding concurrent findings that gardeners terminated in 1988 were BHEL's direct employees despite being nominally engaged through contractors. The Court found the contractor arrangement was a sham device to evade labour laws, evidenced by BHEL's direct supervision, its employee maintaining attendance records, and destruction of records to conceal employment. The Court awarded reinstatement and Rs. 15,000 compensation per worker for violations of Section 6-N of the U.P. Industrial Disputes Act. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.