B. PRAKASH RAO, J.

( 1 ) IN this appeal, the appellant challenges the orders in EIC No. 1 of 1999 dated July 13, 2000 on the file of the Employees Insurance court-cum-Industrial Tribunal I, Hyderabad.

( 2 ) IN the application filed under Section 75 (l) (g) of the Employees State Insurance Act (for short "the Act"), the respondent herein challenged the orders dated October 8, 1998 passed by the Regional Director the appellant herein, bringing the respondent unit under the provisions of the Act. It was claimed that the respondent is only a dealer and there is no manufacturing activity and as it is only a shop with six employees, the provisions of the Act have no application and further that the inspectors during their visit did not properly verify the records and in fact have taken the signature of the managing partner on a blank paper and straight away recommended for coverage of the unit.

( 3 ) OPPOSING the said application, the appellant herein denied the aforesaid allegations and sought to sustain the orders of coverage based on the attendance register of the respondent herein which itself shows that it had employed ten persons and, therefore, it was rightly brought under the c

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