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PETITIONER: BIJAY COTTON MILLS LTD.
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF AJMER.
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 14/10/1954
BENCH: MUKHERJEA, B.K. BENCH: MUKHERJEA, B.K. AIYYAR, T.L. VENKATARAMA MAHAJAN, MEHAR CHAND (CJ) BOSE, VIVIAN JAGANNADHADAS, B.
CITATION: 1955 AIR 33 1955 SCR (1) 752 CITATOR INFO : R 1958 SC 328 (11) D 1960 SC 692 (7) R 1960 SC 923 (25) RF 1961 SC 977 (29) F 1962 SC 12 (11) R 1963 SC 806 (3) E 1963 SC1811 (104) RF 1967 SC 691 (66) RF 1969 SC 182 (8) R 1970 SC2042 (10)
ACT: Constitution of India, Arts. 19(1)(g), 19(6)-Minimum Wages Act (XI of 1948), ss. 3,4 and 5-Appropriate Government-Fixing minimum rate of wages-Whether offends fundamental rights guaranteed under Art. 19(1)(g).
HEADNOTE: The provisions of ss. 3, 4 and 5 of the Minimum Wages Act (XI of 1948) empower the appropriate Government to fix the minimum rate of wages in an industrial dispute between the employer and the employed and it is a criminal offence not to pay the wages thus fixed under the Act. Held, that the restrictions imposed upon the freedom of contract by the fixation of minimum rates of wages though they interfere to some extent with the freedom of trade or business guaranteed under Art. 19(1)(g) of the Constitution are not unreasonable and being imposed in the ...