Agarwal Hardware Industries vs Employees' State Insurance ... on 11 June, 1976
In the case of Agarwal Hardware Industries (supra), ANIL SEN, J., not only held that the Employees' Insurance Court is undoubtedly a special Tribunal and further held that in setting up such a Tribunal the Legislature did not set it up as one of the ordinary civil Courts in the hierarchy of Courts envisaged by Constitution. jUSTICE SEN further held that only some of the powers of ordinary civil Courts had been extended to these Tribunals and they are being deemed as Courts for limited purposes but these Tribunals are not Courts but are Tribunals.