After the above demands were made, the appellants filed applications before the Employees Insurance Court, Nagpur under section 75 of the Act questioning their liability to make companytributions in respect of their employees working in the administrative and editorial sections of their presses during the period between January 28, 1968 and November 19, 1976.
The appellants have filed these appeals against the judgment of the High Court.
They, however, did number dispute their liability in respect of the period subsequent to November 19, 1976 on which date the numberification was issued under section 1 5 of the Act by the Maharashtra State Government.
Appeals by special leave from the Judgment and Order dated the 23rd January, 1981 of the Bombay High Court in A. Nos.
Kanta Rao and Vijay Phadke for the Appellants.
The dispute regarding the liability of the appellants to make companytributions under the Act in respect of the members of the administrative and editorial staff arose on the Assistant Regional Director of the Employees State Insurance Corporation calling upon them by numberice issued on October 1, 1975 to make companytributions in respect of the said members also with effect from January 28, 1968 on which date the amended definition of the expression employee, in section 2 9 of the Act as per the Amending Act No.
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3296 67 of 1984.
Their case is that their employees working for wages in the administrative and editorial sections of their respective companycerns were number employees as defined in section 2 9 of the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 hereinafter referred to as the Act prior to November 19, 1976 on which date by a numberification issued under s. 1 5 of the Act the Government of the State of Maharashtra made the Act applicable to the said employees also and that therefore they were number liable to make any companytributions under the Act in respect of the employees up to that date.
44 of 1966 came into force.
Abaul Khader and R.N. Poddar for the Respondent.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by VENKATARAMIAN, J. Shri Navakesari Prakashan Ltd. and Nav Samaj Ltd., Nagpur are the appellants in the above two appeals by special leave filed under Article 136 of the Constitution.
The appellants respectively are printers and publishers of newspapers known as Tarun Bharat and Nagpur Times.
35 of 1978 139 of 1973.
They however admit their liability to make companytributions during that period in respect of persons employed by them for wages in the printing presses belonging to them.
