( 1 ) ON Preliminary Hearing the 1st petitioner is a Public Limitrd company and is registered under the companies Act. It has its registered office at Bangalore. The 2nd Petitioner is said to be the Managing Director of the Company. The Company carries on businesss of manufacturing watches. It is gaid, that besides having regular employees under its rolls, the Company also takes apprentices and trains them in various fields of activities connected with the industry. The provisions of the employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (the Act) are attracted to this concern. Employees working therein are required to be insured in the manner provided by the Act. For this purpose both the employer and the employee are required to make contributions and to pay the same to the Employees' state Insurance Corporation (Corporation ). Rates are specified in this behalf in the Schedule to the Act. Under S. 40 of the Act it is the duty of the principal employer to pay both the employer and the employees contribution. Guide lines, as to the manner how it should be done, are provided for in the Act. Whenever the Corporation feels that contributions, as required by the Act, were not being made by the empl

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