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1 - 7 of 7 (0.02 seconds)Bombay Gas Co. Ltd vs Jagan Nath Pandurang And Ors on 22 March, 1972
Reference has been made by Mr. Agarwal to the decision of
this Court in the case of Bombay Gay Co. Ltd. v. Jagan Nath
Pandurang & Anr.(3). The respondent in that case filed
applications under the Payment of Wages Act claiming
overtime wages for the period 1957 to 1958 and wages for
weekly off days for the period 1962 to 1963, The appellant
filed appeal to this Court against the judgment of the High
Court setting aside the order of the appellate authority
holding the claim to be time-barred. The appeal was filed
on the basis of a certificate under article 133(1)(b). It
was held that the certificate issued by the High Court under
article 133(1)(b) was not proper. Question was posed in
that case that the, certificate could be granted under the
above clause as there was a recurring liability which if
calculated for subsequent years would come to Rs. 20,000 or
more. This Court was not impressed with the above argument.
The said case
(1) [1965] 2 SCR 751.
Article 133 in Constitution of India [Constitution]
Tirumalachetti Rajaram vs Tirumalachetti Radhakrishnayya ... on 27 April, 1961
and, where the judgment, decree or final order
appealed from affirms the decision of the
court immediately below in ,my case other than
a case referred to in sub-clause (c) if the
High Court further certifies that the appeal
involves some substantial question of law."
It may be stated that there has been a subsequent amendment
of article 133(1) by the Constitution (Thirtieth Amendment)
Act, 1973. We are, however, in the present case concerned
with the article as it stood before the amendment. Perusal
of clause (b) of article 133(1) shows that an appeal shall
lie to this Court from any judgment, decree or final order
in a civil proceeding of a High Court if the High Court
certifies that the judgment, decree or final order involves
directly or indirectly some claim or question respecting
property of the value of not less than twenty thousand
rupees. It is further necessary that where the judgment,
decree or final order appealed from affirms the decision of
the court immediately below, the High Court should certify
that the appeal involves some substantial question of law.
The judgment of the High Court in the present case plainly
did not affirm the decision of the trial court because the
High Court set aside the decree for ejectment and also
reduced the amount for the recovery of which decree had been
awarded by the trial court. It is no doubt true that the
variation of the decree of the trial court was in favour of
the defendant-appellants but that circumstance would not
detract from the fact that the judgment of the High Court
was not one of affirmance of the decision of the trial
court. As observed by the Constitution Bench of this Court
in the case of Tirumalachetti Rajaram v. Tirumalachetti
Radhakrishnayya Chetty(1), in determining the character of
the appellate decree; we have to look at the appellate
decree taken in its entirety and compare it with the
decision of the trial court
(1) [1962] 2 SCR 452.
THE CONSTITUTION (THIRTIETH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1972
Section 110 in The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 [Entire Act]
The Payment Of Wages Act, 1936
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