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Harinagar Sugar Mills Ltd. (biscuit Division) & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.

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Reported as [2025] 7 S.C.R. 427
Bench Sanjay Karol and Prashant Kumar Mishra JJ.
Decided 4 June 2025

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What the Court ordered

We hold that application dated 28th August 2019 was complete in all respects, and the 60-day period for the deemed closure to take effect would be calculable from said date.

Judgment, page 35

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration (i) Whether letter dated 25.09.2019 sent by the Deputy Secretary of State Government can be construed to be an order - Connectedly, whether the appellants would be entitled to the relief of deemed closure, as on 27.10.2019 by virtue of the deeming fiction present in s. 25-O(3) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947; (ii) What would be the meaning of the phrase ‘appropriate Government’ and whether in the facts of this case, it was the appropriate Government acting in the matter of the closure - if not what is the effect in law, thereof. Headnotes† Industrial Disputes Act,

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