Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 · Chapter V: Strikes and Lock-Outs
Section 25: Prohibition of financial aid to illegal strikes and lock-outs
The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 was repealed and replaced by the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.
In plain words
No one may knowingly spend money to directly support an illegal strike or lock-out.
A simplified explanation, prepared with AI assistance from the official text below and checked automatically against it for numbers and cross-references. The official text is the law and prevails over this summary. Not legal advice.
Official text
No person shall knowingly expend or apply any money in direct furtherance of support of any illegal strike or lock-out. [CHAPTER VA
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 25
- M/S Deutsche Lufthansa Ag v. Mr. Nayan Pahwa & Ors
- P.K.Lamps Shade v. Sudhanshu
- East Delhi Municipal Corporation v. Sandeep Goyal and Anr
- Shashank Gupta v. M/S. Mirc Electronics Limited
- Yunus Khan v. Haryana Roadways Through Its General Manager
- Vinod Kumar Gupta v. National Institute of Immunology
- National Institute of Immunology v. Vinod Kumar Gupta
- Naseem Ahmad v. Gen. Manager Vijaya Bank
- Vijaya Bank v. Naseem Ahmed
- Mukesh Tyagi v. Gujrat State Export Corporation Ltd
- Dd Gears Employees Union Regd v. Dd Gears Ltd & Ors
- M/S. New Victoria Mills & Ors. v. Shrikant Arya
- Oil and Natural Gas Corporation v. Krishan Gopal & Ors.
- The Director Steel Authority of India Ltd.V. Ispat Khadan Janta Mazdoor Union v. Ispat Khadan Janta Mazdoor Union
- Management of the Barara Cooperative Marketing-Cum-Processing Society Ltd. v. Workman Pratap Singh
- Umrala Gram Panchayat v. The Secretary, Municipal Employees Union & Ors.
- Oshiar Prasad and Others v. The Employers in Relation to Management of Sudamdih Coal Washery of M/S Bccl, Dhanbad, Jharkhand
- Balwant Rai Saluja & Anr. Etc. Etc. v. Air India Ltd. & Ors.
- Deepali Gundu Surwase v. Kranti Junior Adhyapak Mahavidyalaya (D.Ed.) and Others
- Gujarat Agricultural University v. All Gujarat Kamdar Karmachari Union
- A. Manjula Bhashini & Others v. The Managing Director, Ap. Womens Cooperative Finance Corporation Ltd. and Another,
- Food Corporation of India & Anr. v. Pala Ram & Ors.
- Hindustan Petroleum Corpn. Ltd. v. Ashok Ranghba Ambre
- U .P. Power Corporation Ltd. and Anr. v. Bijli Mazdoor Sangh and Ors.
- Municipal Council, Samrala v. Sukhwinder Kaur
- Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. and Anr. v. Intejam Ali Zafri
- Assistant Engineer, Rajasthan v. Ram Charan
- Kerala Samsthana Chethu Thozhilali Union v. State of Kerala and Ors.
- U.P. State Electricity Board v. Shri Shiv Mohan Singh and Anr.
- M/S. Haryana State F.C.C.W. Store Ltd. and Anr. v. Ram Niwas and Anr.
- M/S. Orissa Textile and Steel Ltd. v. State Oe Orissa and Ors.
- P.G.I. of M.E. and Research, Chandigarh v. Raj Kumar Etc.
- Management of M.C.D. v. Prem Chand Gupta and Anr.
- Lal Mohammad and Ors. v. Indian Railway Construction Co. Ltd. and Ors.
- P. Virudhachalam and Ors. v. The Management of Lotus Mills and Anr.
- Management of Dandakaranya Project, Koreput v. Workmen Through Rehabilitation Employees Union and Anr.
- Ashok Kumar Jain and Ors. v. The State of Bihar and Ors.
- Premium Granites and Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.
- Crescent Iron and Steel Corporation Ltd. v. Union of India and Another
- Union of India Through Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Works & Housing, New Delhi Etc. v. D.C.M. Limited and Ors. Etc.
- Binoy Kumar Chatterjee v. M/S Jugantar Ltd. and Others
- Santosh Gupta v. State Bank of Patiala
- Employers in Relation to the Management of Indian Cable Co. v. Their Workmen
- Workmen of Dewan Tea Estate and Ors. v. The Management
- Rai Sahib Ramdayal Ghasiram Oil Mills v. The Labour Appellate Tribunal and Another