Mr Anonymous,
Reading between the lines can tend only to confusions and wrong actions. Half knowledge is always harmful for both, who applies as well as that on whom applied in official life.
May that chapter of notional employment be there in all the text books of Masters in HR, but correct interpretation is called for from the reader, if any advice is desired to be rendered to others. You have referred the link page, but seems you have not read and interpreted that properly before posting your observation. You are advised to re-read the full paragraph you referred and you will find that the exception has very clearly been given at the end of the paragrpah, where written, "The employment begins ………… and it does not come to an end ……………. back home, WITH THE ONLY EXCEPTION THAT EMPLOYEE IS ON THE ROAD, PUBLIC PLACE OR IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT, HE IS NOT IN THE COURSE OF EMPLOYMENT AND HAS TO BE TREATED LIKE ANY OTHER MEMBER OF PUBLIC."
NOT ONLY THAT, a sentence of the text also reads as, "the expression Is not to be regarded as confined to the nature of employment AND APPLIES EQUALLY TO ALL CONDITIONS, OBLIGATIONS AND INCIDENTS OF EMPLOYMENT.
You may like to know that in that case the employee was a Railway employee and working in the Works Manager, Carriage and Wagon Workshop, where the nature of his employment conditions, obligations and incidents of employment, compelled him to cross the railway line both ways while coming and going to duty, as railway workshops are always situated between the rail lines, not on roads.
Thus, your response clearly tends to give wrong message to the HR professionals. So, your statement that “court judgments which endorse the view that the time an employee commences his journey from home for work till the time he reaches back home after work on a normal route which he takes daily is considered to be notional extension of work and is considered on duty,” is quite wrong as you have not quoted any court judgment that could confirm that IF EMPLOYEE IS ON THE ROAD, PUBLIC PLACE OR IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT, he should be considered in the course of employment while coming or going from home for work on employment.
However, if you lay any hand on any such court judgment, you are welcome to quote that.