Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 162 · Decided 11 March 2004
Express Publications (Madurai) LTD. and ANR. v. Union of India and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 162 · [2004] 2 S.C.R. 1098
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 59/2001
- Decided
- 11 March 2004
- Bench
- Y.K. SABHARWAL, D.M. DHARMADHIKARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Labour Laws: Employees' Provident Fund Scheme, 1952: Paragraph 80(2)-Excluded employees-Newspaper industry­ Emp/oyees of newspaper industry did not come in the category of "excluded employees" and were entitled to all benefits of the Scheme irrespective of pay-Test of income had been apart-Petitioners challenged the constitutionality of Para 80(2) alleging that there was no valid basis to single out newspaper industry for additional burden-Held: Para 80(2) which applied exclusively to employees of newspaper industry did not suffer from the vice of arbitrariness-Hence, it
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