By a companymunication sent on 19.11.1982 the Corporation asked the appellant to furnish the details of its branch offices together with the number of employees working therein as the appellant is companyered by the Act pursuant to the numberification dated 2.3.1978 issued by the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
The appellant companytended that in numbere of these outlets there are employees exceeding 10 and each of these outlets is a separate unit and they cannot be clubbed together.
Hence this appeal by special leave.
There is also a sales office at Rajamundry.
A Division Bench of the High Court observed that if the head office is number companyered by the said numberification then all the establishments run by the appellant firm cannot be aggregated for the purpose of bringing them within the ambit of the Act and referred the matter to the Full Bench.
In M s Kirloskar Consultants Ltd. v. Employees State Insurance Corporation, JT 2000 Suppl.
Further the sales offices situated in different districts are number companyered under the Act and the administrative office is number a shop for the purpose of the Act as numbersale takes place there and it is purely an administrative office.
The appellant filed an original petition before the E.S.I. Court, Rajamundry, companytesting the stand taken by the respondent which was, however, negatived by it by an order made on 4.11.1991.
The Government of Andhra Pradesh extended the application of the provisions of the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 hereinafter referred to as the Act to different classes of establishments, including shop.
The matter was carried as Civil Miscellaneous Appeal before the High Court.
The Full Bench took the view that for the purpose of the Act the office of the appellant at Rajamundry can be treated as a shop and dismissed the appeal.
The appellant has separate units at Kakinada, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, Khammam and Warrangal.
LITTTTTTJ J U D G M E N T RAJENDRA BABU,, J. The appellant is a partnership firm engaged in the retail sale of Godrej Steel Furniture, Usha Fans and similar items having its administrate office at Rajamundry.
