Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, representing All India Trade Union Congress, said that in the 1978 judgment, Justice VR Krishna Iyer had carved out an exception on the limited aspect of clubs and Justice YV Chandrachud had agreed with it.
“Justice Krishna Iyer draws a distinction between clubs like the Madras Gymkhana and similar institutions, and small community clubs formed by individuals for their own recreation. He indicates that only such self-serving, community-based clubs would fall outside the scope,” Sankaranarayanan said.
Sankaranarayanan also made the following suggestion,
“The approach that would be commended, keeping in mind the broader context of industrial…