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Supreme Court of India

State of U.P. v. Jai Bir Singh

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Bench B. V. Nagarathna and Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha JJ.
Decided 20 August 2026

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What the Court ordered

Ordered accordingly. Pending interlocutory applications, if any, stand disposed of in the above terms. There shall be no order as to costs.

Judgment, paras 289-290

In brief

The State of Uttar Pradesh's Social Forestry Department was created as a welfare-oriented initiative aimed at environmental amelioration, and workmen engaged in it claimed the protections of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, on the footing that the Department was an 'industry' under Section 2(j). Whether such a governmental welfare scheme fell within that definition had been answered affirmatively by a three-Judge Bench in Jagannath Maruti Kondhare and negatively, on the state of the pleadings, by a two-Judge Bench in Pratamsingh Narsinh Parmar.…

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