2025:BHC-AS:10305 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION FIRST APPEAL NO. 1441 OF 2024.

M/s. Mondelez India Foods Pvt. Ltd., ] India Bulls Finance Tower, ] Tower 3, Wing-C, ] Unit 2001-20th Floor, ]

Lower Parel, Mumbai – 400 013. ] ...Appellant.

Versus

1. The Deputy Director, ]

Employees State Insurance Corporation, ] Regional Ofoce, Maharashtra, ] 108 Panchdeep Bhavan, ] N. M. Joshi Marg, Lower Parel, ] Mumbai – 400 013. ]

2. The Appellate Authority ]

Employees State Insurance Corporation, ] Regional Ofoce, Maharashtra, ] 108 Panchdeep Bhavan, ] N.M. Joshi Marg, Lower Parel, ]

Mumbai – 400 013. ] ...Respondents.

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Mr. S. C. Naidu, Ms. Samiksha Kanani, Mr. Abhishek Ingle and Mr. Pradeep Kumar for Appellant.

Mr. Shailesh S. Pathak for Respondent.

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Coram : Sharmila U. Deshmukh, J. Reserved on : 24^th February, 2025. Pronounced on : 05^th March, 2025.

Judgment :

1. The First Appeal has been preferred under Section 82 of the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 [for short, “ESI Act”] impugning the judgment dated 11^th October, 2023 passed by the Employees’ State Insurance Court, Mumbai in an Application filed under Section 75 read with Section 77 of the ESI A