the minimum wages authority found on the evidence adduced by the parties that the tube well operators concerned were state government servants and number the servants of the panchayats that panchayats exercised supervisory companytrol over them and that it was number controverted by the applicant before him that the tube well operators were employed by the state government before 1.4.1963.
3962.40 and rs.
3018.40 and rs.
appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated 15th october 1974 of the gujarat high companyrt in civil revision appln.
civil appellatte jurisdiction civil appeals number 127 130 of 1975.
advocate m.n.
the minimum wages inspector companytended in those applications that the four employees ishwerbhai prahladbhai dayabhai umeddass kanjibhai shankarbhai and nathalal maganlal working in the taluka panchayat and district panchayat as tube well operators at delva da and vihar villages fall within the minimum wages act 1948 hereinafter referred to as the act and had been made to work for more hours than what is prescribed under the act and they were entitled to over time wages of rs.
v. patel c.v.
3082/ for the period from october 1970 to march 1971 and rs.
applications number.
1178.25 for the transitional period of april and may 1971 in respect of kanjibhai shankarbhai and rs.
1434 1437 of 1973.
3769.05 in respect of ishwerbhai prahladbhai and dayabhai umeddass respectively for the period from september 1969 to february 1970 and rs.
dhebar for the respondent state .
the four revisions raised a companymon question of law and were disposed of by a companymon judgment.
the applications before the minimum wages authority were filed by the gujarat government labour officer and minimum wages inspector for mehsana district against the taluka development officer vijapur taluka and district development officer panchayat mehsana.
taluka development officer vijapur taluka panchayat and district development officer mehsana district panchayat in these appeals.
number.
poddar and r.h.
1 and 2 of 1970 and 1 and 2 of 1971 hereinafter referred to as applications .
h. parekh for respondents 1 and 2.
naresh kumar sharma and vineet kumar for the appellant.
shroff g.n.
desal r.n.
those civil revision applications hereinafter referred to as revisions were preferred against the judgment of the civil judge junior division vijapur as the authority appointed under s. 20 i of the minimum wages act 1948 for vijapur taluka in civil misc.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by varadarajan j. these appeals by special leave are directed against the judgment of the learned chief justice j. diwan of the gujarat high companyrt in civil revision application number.
subba rao dy.
m. tarkunde.
1434 to 1437 of 1973.
