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NEw new delhi, A nine-judge make-up bench of the sublime margaret court on th reserved its verdict on the contentious issue of defining the word "industry" under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.A bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant heard the submissions of various lawyers including Attorney General R Venkataramani, Additional Solicitor General K M Nataraj and others such as senior advocates Shekhar Naphade, Indira Jaising, C U Singh and Sanjay Hegde during the three-day-long hearing.The bench, also comprising Justices B V Nagarathna, P S Narasimha, Dipankar Datta, Ujjal Bhuyan, Satish Chandra Sharma, Joymalya Bagchi, Alok Aradhe and Vipul M Pancholi, said it would examine the legal correctness of the 1978 judgment of a seven-judge bench giving an expansive interpretation of the term "industry" to govern labour relations.On February 21, 1978, a seven-judge bench delivered a verdict on the definition of the term "industry" while deciding the plea of Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board and expanded the definition which brought millions of employees in hospitals, educational institutions, clubs and government welfare departments under the protection of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.On February 16, the top court had formulated the broad issues to be adjudicated by the nine-judge bench."Whether the test laid down in paragraphs 140 to 144 in the opinion rendered by Justice V R Krishna Iyer in Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board's case to determine if an undertaking or enterprise falls within the definition of 'industry' lays down correct law?"And whether the Industrial Disputes Act, 1982 , and the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 , have any legal impact on the interpretation of the expression 'industry' as contained in the principal Act?" the bench had said.It had said one of the issues to be adjudicated by the nine-judge bench would be whether social welfare activities and schemes or other enterprises undertaken by government departments or their instrumentalities can be construed to be "industrial activities" for the purpose of Section 2 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.

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