INDIA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL Vs. MALAM SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) SINCE common point is involved in all these petitions, all these petitions are taken up together and are disposed of by this common order.

(2.) THE proceedings in these cases are pending before the Authority under the Payment of Wages Act as the respondents have approached the said authority for getting various reliefs. During the pendency of these proceedings, on behalf of the petitioner Management, an application was submitted that the provisions of Payment of Wages Act is not applicable to the Institution as it is an educational institution and therefore in that view of the matter, the authority under the Payment of Wages Act has no jurisdiction to decide the applications filed by the concerned applicants. THE authority under the Payment of Wages Act has decided the application about applicability of the Act and preliminary point is decided against the petitioner by holding that the provisions under the Payment of Wages Act is applicable to the facts of the present case. THE learned Authority has considered the definition of industry and has also considered the case law cited by both the sides and ultimately reached to the conclusion that it has jurisdiction to decide the issue as the provisions of the Act is applicable. THE aforesaid interlocutory order is subject matter of challenge in all these writ petitions.