Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 1253 · Decided 10 December 2007
State of Rajasthan v. Ganeshi Lal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 1253 · [2007] 12 S.C.R. 1197
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3021/2006
- Decided
- 10 December 2007
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, P. SATHASIVAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Industrial Disputes Act Section 2(s)
Headnote
Industrial Disputes Act, 1947-s. 2(s)-Termination of employee of Law department of State Government-Industrial dispute raised­ Resisted on the ground that the department is not an 'industry'- C Courts below giving relief to workman holding it to be 'industry'­ On_ appeal, held: Law to the department to consider continuance of the employee. Judgment-Precedential value of-Applicability-Held: Reliance on a judgment sans its factual background is impermissible-A judgment is a precedent on its own facts-Only the ratio has the binding effect and not every observation-Observations
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)