https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307938 A Government Law Department is not an industry for purposes of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, so the definition of workman under Section 2(s) does not apply on that premise. The SC also held that precedent must be applied only for the principle actually decided and in the factual setting in which it arose; judicial observations cannot be treated as statutory text. On the facts, the accepted concept of industry was inapplicable to the Law Department, and the finding that it was an industry was unsustainable. en-us Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 17 May 2023 14:15:01 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307938 A Government Law Department is not an industry for purposes of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, so the definition of workman under Section 2(s) does not apply on that premise. The SC also held that precedent must be applied only for the principle actually decided and in the factual setting in which it arose; judicial observations cannot be treated as statutory text. On the facts, the accepted concept of industry was inapplicable to the Law Department, and the finding that it was an industry was unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307938