Supreme Court of India

Des Raj, Etc. Etc. v. State of Punjab & Ors. Etc.

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Reported as [1988] 3 S.C.R. 616
Bench Ranganath Misra J.
Decided 20 April 1988

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Industrial Disputes Act, 1947-Whether Irrigation Department of State Government of Punjab or Haryana is an 'industry' as defined in Section 2(1)-0f Each of these appeals by special leave was directed against the award made by the Labour Court. The appellant in Civil Appeal No. 5415 of 1985, a foreman in the Mechanical Constrnction Division under the Irrigation Department, had filed an application nnder Section 33C-2 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 ('the Act') before the Labour Court for the recovery of arrears of annual increments. The appellant in Civil Appeal No. 2168 of 1987 was a T.

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