JUDGMENT

KOSHAL, J.:— By this judgment we shall dispose of Criminal appeals Nos. 606 and 607 of 1979 both of which are directed against a judgment of a Division Bench of the High Court of Gujarat dated the 19th January 1979 upholding the conviction recorded against and the sentences imposed upon the three appellants under Section 22A of the Minimum Wages Act (hereinafter called the Act) in each of two cases by a Judicial Magistrate at Morvi

2. Some of the facts leading to the prosecution of the appellants are not in dispute and may be shortly stated. Appellant No. 3 is the Morvi Vegetable Products Ltd., a limited company carrying on the business of manufacture and sale of vegetable oil and vanaspati in Morvi. Appellant No. 1 is the Managing Director and appellant No. 2 the secretary of appellant No. 3 which is hereinafter referred to as the Company.

On May 2, 1973, Kumari J. G. Mukhi, who is a Government Labour Officer-cum-Minimum Wages Inspector, visited the Companys establishment and found that the following documents which, according to her, the Company was bound to maintain in compliance with the provision of Section 18 of the Act read with the relevant rules of the Gujarat Minim