P Subba Rao v. The Singareni Collieries Company Limited

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE CHALLA KODANDA RAM WRIT PETITION No.2637 of 2018 ORDER:

This Writ Petition is filed seeking verbatim the following relief: ".....to issue an appropriate Writ, Order or Direction more particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the Respondents' action of deducting the amount towards Contractor's contribution of Employees' Coal Mines Provident Fund in the bills for the work of Transportation of Crushed 'D' Grade coal from OCIV Section of PKOC, MNG to KCHP on weight basis for a period of 6 months pursuant to Purchase Order No.7500037076 dated 08-012018 as illegal, arbitrary and contrary to the Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1948 and consequently direct the respondents not to deduct the amounts towards CMPF and pass such other or further orders as deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case."

2) When the matter is taken up for hearing, Sri J. Srinivasa Rao, learned Standing Counsel for the respondents submits that in similar circumstances, this Court has disposed of W.P.No.35058 of 2016 on 16.11.2016, by following the Order dated 30.03.2011, passed by this Court in W.P.No.11107 of 2009 and Batch, which fact has not been disputed by the learned Counsel for the petitioner. 3) In those circumstances, recording the submission made by the learned Standing Counsel for the respondents, without expressing any opinion, the Writ Petition is disposed of in terms of the judgment of this Court in W.P.No.35058 of 2016. Office to tag a copy of the order passed in W.P.No.35058 of 2016 to this Writ Petition. No order as to costs. 4) Consequently, Miscellaneous Petitions pending, if any, in this Writ Petition, shall stand closed.

_____________________________ CHALLA KODANDA RAM, J.

Date: 30.01.2018.

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