{"id":187749,"date":"2000-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-13T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ms-sunil-industries-vs-ram-chander-pradhan-anr-on-14-november-2000"},"modified":"2016-04-17T04:12:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T22:42:01","slug":"ms-sunil-industries-vs-ram-chander-pradhan-anr-on-14-november-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ms-sunil-industries-vs-ram-chander-pradhan-anr-on-14-november-2000","title":{"rendered":"M\/S. Sunil Industries vs Ram Chander Pradhan &amp; Anr on 14 November, 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">M\/S. Sunil Industries vs Ram Chander Pradhan &amp; Anr on 14 November, 2000<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: S.N.Variava, S.R.Babu<\/div>\n<pre>           PETITIONER:\nM\/S.  SUNIL INDUSTRIES\n\n\tVs.\n\nRESPONDENT:\nRAM CHANDER PRADHAN &amp; ANR.\n\nDATE OF JUDGMENT:\t14\/11\/2000\n\nBENCH:\nS.N.Variava, S.R.Babu\n\n\n\n\nJUDGMENT:\n<\/pre>\n<p>L&#8230;..I&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;T&#8230;&#8230;.T&#8230;&#8230;.T&#8230;&#8230;.T&#8230;&#8230;.T&#8230;&#8230;.T..J<br \/>\n      J U D G M E N T S.  N.  VARIAVA, J.\n<\/p>\n<p>      This Appeal is against an Order dated 7th May, 1997 by<br \/>\nwhich  the  first  appeal filed by the\tappellant  has\tbeen<br \/>\ndismissed  in  limine.\t Briefly  stated the  facts  are  as<br \/>\nfollows:   The Petitioner is a sole proprietory concern.  It<br \/>\nruns  its  workshop  of shaping steel  sheets  into  various<br \/>\nshapes\tand forms.  The 1st Respondent was, at the  relevant<br \/>\ntime,  working\tas a press operator with the Appellant.\t  On<br \/>\n27th  January,\t1993  while  working on\t a  press,  the\t 1st<br \/>\nRespondent  sustained injuries to his right index finger and<br \/>\nthumb.\tThe Appellant rushed the 1st Respondent to the Civil<br \/>\nHospital  at  Gurgaon (Haryana).  The injuries\tnecessitated<br \/>\namputation  of 2.5 x 0.5 Cms.  of the index finger.  On 14th<br \/>\nJune,  1993,  the  1st Respondent filed a  claim  under\t the@@<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t JJJ<br \/>\nWorkmen&#8217;s  Compensation\t Act, 1923 claiming compensation  in@@<br \/>\nJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ<br \/>\nthe  sum  of Rs.  25,000\/- with interest thereon @  16%\t per<br \/>\nannum.\tThe Appellant in his reply, inter alia, claimed that<br \/>\nthe  provisions of the Workmen&#8217;s Compensation Act would\t not<br \/>\napply  to  his\testablishment.\t On 15th  October  1996\t the<br \/>\nCommissioner  held  that  the\tWorkmen&#8217;s  Compensation\t Act<br \/>\napplied\t  and  that  the  Appellant   was  liable   to\t pay<br \/>\ncompensation   in  a  sum  of  Rs.29,814\/-   together\twith<br \/>\nRs.5,000\/-  as\tpenalty and interest at 12% per annum.\t The<br \/>\nAppellant  preferred  an  Appeal  under Section\t 30  of\t the<br \/>\nWorken&#8217;s  Compensation Act before the High Court of Punjab &amp;<br \/>\nHaryana.   That Appeal came to be dismissed in limine by the<br \/>\nimpugned order dated 7th May, 1997.  It is admitted that the<br \/>\n1st  Respondent\t was  working as a press operator  with\t the<br \/>\nAppellant  at  the relevant time.  It is admitted  that\t the<br \/>\naccident  did  took place on 27th January, 1993 and that  it<br \/>\nresulted  in injuries to the right index finger and thumb of<br \/>\nthe  1st Respondent and that this necessitated amputation of<br \/>\n2.5  x 0.5 Cms.\t of the index finger.  Mr.  Vasdev  however,<br \/>\nsubmitted  that the Workmen&#8217;s Compensation Act did not apply<br \/>\nto the Appellant&#8217;s establishment.  He submitted that Section<br \/>\n2(n)  (ii) of the Wormen&#8217;s Compensation Act provides that  a<br \/>\nworkman\t is  a\tperson employed in a capacity  specified  in<br \/>\nSchedule  II.\tHe  then  referred to  Schedule\t II  of\t the<br \/>\nWorkmen&#8217;s Compensation Act and pointed out that under item 2<br \/>\nof  Schedule  II a person would be a workman provided he  is<br \/>\nemployed  in  any premises where a manufacturing process  as<br \/>\ndefined in clause (k) of Section 2 of the Factories Act 1948<br \/>\nwas  being  carried on.\t He submitted that this showed\tthat<br \/>\nthe  provisions of the Factories Act were being incorporated<br \/>\ninto the Workmen&#8217;s Compensation Act.  He submitted that this<br \/>\nis  also clear from the fact that over the years there\thave<br \/>\nbeen  a\t number of amendments to the Workmen&#8217;s\tCompensation<br \/>\nAct  incorporating therein provision of the Factories Act or<br \/>\nprovisions  similar  thereto.  He then referred\t to  Section<br \/>\n2(k) and 2 (m) of the Factories Act and submitted that under<br \/>\nthe  Factories\tAct the manufacturing process must be  in  a<br \/>\nfactory\t where\tten  or\t more workers are  working  (if\t the<br \/>\nmanufacturing  process\tis being carried on with the aid  of<br \/>\npower)\tor  twenty  or\tmore persons  are  working  (if\t the<br \/>\nmanufacturing process is being carried on without the aid of<br \/>\npower).\t  He  submitted\t that a joint reading of  all  these<br \/>\nprovisions  makes it clear that even for the purposes of the<br \/>\nWorkmen&#8217;s  Compensation\t Act  only  those  persons  who\t are<br \/>\nemployed  in  a factory within the meaning of the  Factories<br \/>\nAct,  1948  would  be  entitled to make a  claim  under\t the<br \/>\nWorkmen&#8217;s  Compensation\t Act.  We are unable to\t accept\t the<br \/>\nsubmissions  of\t the learned counsel.  It is true  that\t the<br \/>\nWorkmen&#8217;s  Compensation\t Act,  1923 has been  amended  on  a<br \/>\nnumber of occasions.  However inspite of numerous amendments<br \/>\nthe  Legislature  has  purposely   omitted  to\tspecifically<br \/>\nprovide that only a workman who is employed in a factory, as<br \/>\ndefined\t in the Factories Act, could make a claim.  All that<br \/>\nhas  been  done\t is  that in Schedule II  of  the  Workmen&#8217;s<br \/>\nCompensation  Act  it is inter alia clarified  that  persons<br \/>\nemployed,  otherwise  than  in a clerical capacity,  in\t any<br \/>\npremises  wherein  a  manufacturing process  as\t defined  in<br \/>\nclause\t(k)  of\t Section 2 of the Factories Act,  1948,\t are<br \/>\nworkmen.  Significantly the definition of the term &#8220;Factory&#8221;<br \/>\nas appearing in clause (m) of Section 2 of the Factories Act<br \/>\n1948 has not been incorporated in the Workmen&#8217;s Compensation<br \/>\nAct.   Thus it is clear that for the Workmen&#8217;s\tCompensation<br \/>\nAct  to apply it is not necessary that the workman should be<br \/>\nworking\t in a Factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948.<br \/>\nIt  has\t not been denied that the workshop of the  Appellant<br \/>\nwould  fall  under clause (k) of Section 2 of the  Factories<br \/>\nAct.   Therefore,  the\t1st Respondent would  be  a  Workman<br \/>\nwithin\tthe meaning of the term as defined in the  Workmen&#8217;s<br \/>\nCompensation  Act.  Under the circumstances, we see no merit<br \/>\nin  the\t Appeal.   The same stands dismissed.\tThere  will,<br \/>\nhowever, be no order as to costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India M\/S. Sunil Industries vs Ram Chander Pradhan &amp; Anr on 14 November, 2000 Bench: S.N.Variava, S.R.Babu PETITIONER: M\/S. SUNIL INDUSTRIES Vs. RESPONDENT: RAM CHANDER PRADHAN &amp; ANR. DATE OF JUDGMENT: 14\/11\/2000 BENCH: S.N.Variava, S.R.Babu JUDGMENT: L&#8230;..I&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;T&#8230;&#8230;.T&#8230;&#8230;.T&#8230;&#8230;.T&#8230;&#8230;.T&#8230;&#8230;.T..J J U D G M E N T S. N. VARIAVA, J. This Appeal is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supreme-court-of-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>M\/S. 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