Employees State Insurance Corporation Through Its Regional Director v. M/S. H. R. Associates Through Its Parter Shri. Rajwardhan Vittalrao Dikona And ANR.

57-FA-207-2025.doc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION FIRST APPEAL NO. 207 OF 2025.

Employees State Insurance Corporation Through Its Regional Director ...Appellant.

Versus

M/S. H. R. Associates Through Its Parter Shri. Rajwardhan Vittalrao Dikona And Anr.

...Respondents.

------ Mr. Shailesh Pathak for the Appellant.

Mr. Anvil S. Kalekar for the Respondent No. 1. ------ Coram : Sharmila U. Deshmukh, J.

TALLE SHUBHAM ASHOKRAO TALLE SHUBHAM ASHOKRAO Date: 2025.01.29 19:45:26 +0530 Date : January 27, 2025.

P. C. :

1.

Heard.

2.

Admit on the following substantial questions of law: a) Whether the finding of ESI Court suffers from perversity as evidence on record establishes that the two units demonstrated one integrated establishment and were therefore rightly clubbed and covered by the provisions of the Employees State Insurance Act. b) Whether the ESI Court committed an error in holding that there is no integrity between the two units on the basis that the businesses are separate without noticing that the business were being carried out from the same premises and were having one common entrance and the books of account of both the units were found at one unit which Shubham Talle 1 of

57-FA-207-2025.doc would demonstrate an integrated establishment. 3.

Mr. Anvil S. Kalekar. waives notice on behalf of the Respondent No.1.

4.

Call for Record and proceedings.

5.

Printing is dispensed with. Private paper-book be filed within a period of one year.

[Sharmila U. Deshmukh, J.] Shubham Talle 2 of