REGIONAL DIRECTOR EMPLOYEES STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION Vs. HIGH LAND COFFEE WORKS OF P F X SALDANHA AND SONS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) These appeals by special leave are directed against the judgment of the Karnataka High Court rejecting the claim of the appellant Corporation for covering the factories of the respondents under the provisions of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (The Act).

(2.) Section 1(4) excludes "seasonal factory" from the scope of the Act. The "seasonal factory" is defined under S. 2(12) of the Act ,.,which is extracted hereunder:

(3.) The factories of the respondents were excluded from the operation of the Act since they were declared to be the seasonal factories within the meaning of the above stated definition. There is no dispute on this aspect.