FA/7/2007

NEUTRAL CITATION C/FA/7/2007 JUDGMENT DATED: 01/04/2026 2026:GUJHC:24200 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/FIRST APPEAL NO. 7 of 2007 ========================================================== REGIONAL DIRECTOR AND RECOVERY OFFICER Versus HOTEL MAUSAM ========================================================== Appearance: MR HEMANT S SHAH(756) for the Appellant(s) No. 1 MR CS NAIDU(1218) for the Defendant(s) No. 1 MR DIPAK R DAVE(1232) for the Defendant(s) No. 1 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE J. C. DOSHI Date : 01/04/2026 JUDGMENT 1. The instant Appeal is filed under Section 82(2) of the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (for short the “ESI Act”), at the behest of the Regional Director & Recovery Officer, Employees State Insurance Corporation, challenges the judgment and order dated 03.05.2006 passed by the learned Employees’ Insurance Court, Bhavnagar, in E.S.I. Application No.3 of 2002, filed by the respondent herein. By the said judgment, the ESI Court, declared the order dated 29.03.2000, whereby Hotel Mausam was brought under the provisions of ESI Act, as illegal and unjustified, and further held that the Hot