Court : Mumbai
Decided on : Jun-30-1958
Reported in : (1959)61BOMLR764; (1959)IILLJ578Bom
Vyas, J. 1. This is an application under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India by the owners of the bidi-manufacturing concerns of Sangamner, Akola and places within seven miles of their respective municipal limits and it raises certain important questions of law. 2. In the year 1948 the Central Legislature passed an Act No. XI of 1948, called the Minimum Wages Act. Section 3(1) of the Act empowers the appropriate Government to fix the minimum rates of wages for certain industries which are described as 'scheduled industries.' Section 3, Sub-section (3), Clause (a), Sub-clause (iv), provides that different minimum rates of wages may be fixed for different localities at the time of fixing or revising the minimum rates of wages. Section 4 lays down what the minimum rates of wages fixed or revised by the appropriate Government under S. 3 may consist of. Section 5 Sub-section (1), Clause (a), provides for the appointment of a committee to hold enquiries in the matter of fixing minimum rate...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Mumbai
Decided on : Apr-03-1958
Reported in : AIR1959Bom346; (1958)60BOMLR1314
1. Sunder Dumanna Shetty, the petitioner herein, is the proprietor of an eating house and restaurant named Shauti Bhuvan Hindu Hotel, situate at Clark Road, Jacob Cirefe, Bombay, herein-after referred to as 'the hotel'. A licence had been issued to the petitioner under the provisions of the Bombay Police Act, 1951, being licence No. 970/EHL 1954-55 in respect of the said hotel. The said licence was renewed from time to time upto 31st March 1957. On 28th February 1957 the petitioner made an application for the renewal of the said licence for the year 1957-58. On 2nd August 1957 the Commissioner of Police, Bombay, issued a notice against the petitioner, stating that for the reasons set out in the said notice the Commissioner of Police proposed not to renew the said licence in favour of the petitioner and called upon the petitioner to show cause why such action would not be taken. The petitioner was required to appear before the Commissioner of Police on 9th August 1957 for that purpose. ...
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