Which of the following statements can most plausibly be inferred from the application of the ru...........

Legal Concepts Legal Reasoning

Rules
A. A person is an employee of another if the mode and the manner in which he or she carries out his work is subject to control and supervision of the latter.
B. An employer is required to provide compensation to his or her employees for any injury caused by an accident arising in the course of employment. The words ‘in the course of the employment’ means in the course of the work which the employee is contracted to do and which is incidental to it.
Facts
Messrs. ZafarAbidi and Co. (Company) manufactures bidis with the help of persons known as `pattadars’. The pattadars are supplied tobacco and leaves by the Company and are required to roll them into bidis and bring the bidis back to the Company. The pattadars are free to roll the bidis either in the factory or anywhere else they prefer.
They are not bound to attend the factory for any fixed hours of work or for any fixed number of days. Neither are they required to roll up any fixed number of bidis. The Company verifies whether the bidis adhere to the specified instructions or not and pays the pattadars on the basis of the number of bidis that are found to be of right quality.
Aashish Mathew is one of the pattadars of the Company. He was hit by a car just outside the precinct of the factory while he was heading to have lunch in a nearby foodstall.
Aashish Mathew has applied for compensation from the Company.

Which of the following statements can most plausibly be inferred from the application of the rules to the given facts:

Aashish Mathew is an employee of the Company because the latter exercises control over the manner in which Aashish Mathew carries out his work.

Aashish Mathew is not an employee but an independent contractor as he does not have a fixed salary.

Aashish Mathew is an employee because the Company exercises control over the final quality of the bidis.

Verification of the quality of bidis amounts to control over the product and not control over the mode and method of work and therefore, Aashish Mathew is not an employee of the Company.

Explanation:

The quality test only accepts the product. Different people will have different ways of manufacturing a product but so long as it meets a quality standard the product is acceptable as such there is no control over manner and method over the product.
Hence, option 4 is the correct answer.