South Eastern Coal Fields Ltd. Andors. v. Employee Provident Fund Orgn.

NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH, BILASPUR Writ Petition No.3000 of 2003

1. South Eastern Coalfields Limited, A Company registered under the Companies Act, through Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Seepat Road, Bilaspur.

2. Chief General Manager, South Eastern Coalfields Limited, Hasdeo Area, P.O. South Jhagrakhand, District Surguja (CG). ---- Petitioners

Versus

Employees Provident Fund Orgn. through Assistant Provident Fund, Commissioner & Statutory Authority Regional Office, Chhattisgarh, Navbharat Press Complex, Rajbhanda Maidan, Raipur, Chhattisgarh (CG).

--- Respondent For Petitioners :

Mr. Sudhir Kumar Bajpai, Advocate.

For Respondent :

Mr. Sunil Pillai, Advocate Hon'ble Shri Justice Sanjay K. Agrawal Order On Board 13/11/2017 Heard.

(1) Learned counsel appearing for the respondent would submit that Annexure P/1 & Annexure P/2 only show cause notice has been issued to the petitioner against which the petitioner may be allowed to file reply/objection to the show cause notice before the respondent- Assistant Provident Fund, Commissioner & Statutory Authority Regional Office, Raipur. He would further submit that respondent authority be directed to consider and decide the reply/objection in accordance with law, expeditiously. (2) Prayer appears to be fair and reasonable.

(3) Be that as it may, the petitioners are at liberty to file

reply/objection to the show cause notice before respondentAssistant Provident Fund, Commissioner Regional Office, Raipur and, in turn, the said authority shall consider and decide the same strictly in accordance with law expeditiously preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt of the reply. (4) For a period of three months, interim relief granted by this Court on 26.09.2003 shall remain in force. (5) With the aforesaid observation, the writ petition stands finally disposed of.

Sd/- (Sanjay K. Agrawal) Judge L