'Industry' Definition Reference : Live Updates From Supreme Court 9-Judge Bench Hearing

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17 March 2026 10:20 AM IST

  • Industry Definition Reference : Live Updates From Supreme Court 9-Judge Bench Hearing

    A 9-judge bench of the Supreme Court will hear today the reference on the correctness of the definition of “industry” given by then Justice VR Krishna Iyer in the 1978 decision in Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board v. A. Rajappa.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justices BV Nagarathna, PS Narasimha, Dipankar Datta, Ujjal Bhuyan, Satish Chandra Sharma,...

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    • 17 March 2026 2:43 PM IST

      AG: we have crossed early days for the inevitable need for collective bargaining.

    • 17 March 2026 2:42 PM IST

      CJ: within the head of g2, you have summed that sovereign functions can't be put into a stated formula.

      AG: I thought we will put the sovereign function debate in distinct legal domains like civil wrongs, consumer etc...I think city of nagpure is incorrectly affirmed

      J Nagarathna: then only remedy is by way of suit

    • 17 March 2026 2:38 PM IST

      AG: so to take charge of the period within 1978 to 2025, i think it will be important to keep all of them as a corpus of principles

      J Nagarathna: so according to you sovereign functions must be narrowly interpreted?

      AG: it requires an ambivalent understanding. the bangalore water seems to have some kind of a show on many of these considerations

    • 17 March 2026 2:38 PM IST

      CJ: particularly under the head of consideration of soverign function in industrial law, I think that it explains your view point.

      AG: if more than 1959s the courts are trying to courageously find out the meaning and it is in this context of the new law can throw some light for adjudication

    • 17 March 2026 2:37 PM IST

      AG: on sovereign funtions, i have some submission to make- in civil wrongs liability, we don't get into that because that happens in an entirely different domain. it may or not definitely throw a light on sovereign functions in the context of what i call mandated activitiy undertaken for public welfare

    • 17 March 2026 2:37 PM IST

      CJ: we will not rely on the new definition because there is a caveat put by the other side that there might be a challenge to it. of course the principles referred in the judge is one of the tools for integration

    • 17 March 2026 2:26 PM IST

      AG: cites two judgments.

    • 17 March 2026 2:26 PM IST

      AG: reads a judgment.

    • 17 March 2026 2:26 PM IST

      AG: the court always say the later law by way of whatever amendment or ottherwise can always looked into as an interpretation guide. not necessarily a final say on the subject but it will say, therefore, codes willl always use them.

    • 17 March 2026 2:20 PM IST

      AG: it is submitted that it will always open for the parliament to depart from the declaration of law in bangalore water and to provide for appropriate legislative framework..

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