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21. After taking into consideration Section 182 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 that defines `agent', the majority view recorded its conclusion thus :

"20. Thus on both counts, the principal question as well as the subsidiary question must be answered against the ESIC holding that the employees of the electrical contractors, on the facts and circumstances, established before the Division Bench of the High Court, do not come in the grip of the Act and thus all demands made towards ESI contribution made against the CESC and the electrical contractors were invalid. We affirm the view of the High Court in that regard."