Supreme Court of India

The Officer in Charge, Sub-regional Provident Fund Office & Anr. v. M/s Godavari Garments Limited

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Reported as [2019] 9 S.C.R. 1101

Bench Abhay Manohar Sapre and Indu Malhotra JJ.

Decided 24 July 2019

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid discussion, the judgment passed by the Bombay High Court vide the Impugned Order dated 27.04.2012, being contrary to settled law, is set aside.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

Employees’ Pr ovident Fund and Miscellaneous Pr ovisions Act, 1952: ss. 7- , 2(f) – Employee – Definition of – Company engaged in pr oducing garments, employed women workers – W orkers provided raw materials-fabric, thr ead, buttons, to stitch the garments at their homes as per the specifications given by the company and the workers pr ovided them to the company – Workers, if cover ed by definition of employee u/s. 2(f) – Held: Defi- nition of “employee” u/s. 2(f) includes any person engaged either dir ectly or indir ectly in connection with the work of an establishment, and ar e paid wages –

Authorities it was built on

1973 Silver Jubilee Tailoring House and Others v. Chief Inspector of Shops and Establishments and Another cited by 5
1991 C.E.S.C. Ltd. Etc. v. Subhash Chandra Bose and Ors. cited by 5
2012 Regional Provident Fund Commissioner v. The Hooghly Mills Co. Ltd. & Ors. cited by 4
1985 Messrs. P.M. Patel & Sons and Others, Etc. v. Union of India and Others, Etc. cited by 3
1998 The Daily Pratap v. The Regional Provident Fund Commissioner cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2020 M/s. Pawan Hans Limited & Ors. v. Aviation Karmachari Sanghatana & Ors. mentioned

Of those, 1 mentioned

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