Employee’s State Insurance Act, 1948–Declaration of the establishment as a factory–Suit against–Decreed–Trial Court rightly concluded that the respondent’s establishment does not fall within the category of the factory–Further conclusion that the employees of a separately owned business, namely Shiva Foods and S.K. Traders operating from same premises could not be clubbed together for the purpose of applying the provisions of the Act–There is no material on record indicating any financial, functional or managerial nexus between the respondent’s establishment and the aforersaid concerns –Respondent failed to provide the copy of visit note–Absence of reasoned justification in the recovery order–Delay and laches in filing the instant appeal–Interference declined.


