K. Veeraswami, C.J.

This is an appeal from an order of Ramamurti, J., dismissing a civil miscellaneous appeal under the provisions of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948. The learned Judge was of the view that causal employees were not within the purview of the Act. The correctness of this view is the only question in the appeal. The respondent is a limited liability company carrying on business in the manufacture and sale of cotton yarn. In the course of inspection of its books the Insurance Inspector found a large debit of about Rs. 9, 000 which represented wages paid to certain employees. It is not in dispute - and it has never been at any stage - that these employees were casual employees engaged for whitewashing and effecting repairs to the factory buildings. The Regional Director is sued a demand on the respondent on March 19, 1962 that the employer's contribution in respect of these workers should be paid. Those are all the facts which we know from the record.

2. The term "employee" as defined by S. 2(9) read by itself appears to us to be wide enough to cover casual employees as well. A person will be an employee, if he is employed for wages in or in connectio