Adani Agri Logistics Ltd. and Anr. v. State of Haryana and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
The Court held that owners of establishments are liable under the Building and other Construction Workers Act and the Welfare Cess Act when they employ building workers or profit from the work, even if construction is outsourced to contractors, rejecting the defence that the Factories Act 1948 renders them exempt.
What did the court decide?
The writ petitions were allowed in part; owners cannot be excluded from the purview of the Acts in favour of contractors, but interference to grant other relief was declined.