https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=281073 Including medical practitioners within the definition of "commercial establishment" under section 7(1) of the Bombay Shops and Establishments Act, 1948 was held to be ultra vires because a private doctor's dispensary is not a commercial establishment. The Court applied the same reasoning previously used to exclude legal practitioners from that definition and found that the amendment could not validly extend the statutory scope to medical practitioners. As a result, the criminal prosecution launched for non-compliance with that provision was quashed. en-us Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 01 Jun 2019 20:22:05 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=281073 Including medical practitioners within the definition of "commercial establishment" under section 7(1) of the Bombay Shops and Establishments Act, 1948 was held to be ultra vires because a private doctor's dispensary is not a commercial establishment. The Court applied the same reasoning previously used to exclude legal practitioners from that definition and found that the amendment could not validly extend the statutory scope to medical practitioners. As a result, the criminal prosecution launched for non-compliance with that provision was quashed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=281073