Prakash Madhukar Pathak vs. Union Of India

RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No(s). 8658-8659/2019 (Arising out of impugned final judgment and orders dated 12-10-2018 in WPC No. 602/2015 & 12-10-2018 in WPC No. 13120/2015 passed by the High Court Of Kerala At Ernakulam) THE EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION & ANR.ETC. Petitioner(s) VERSUS SUNIL KUMAR B. & ORS.ETC. Respondent $(s)$ WITH $W.P.(C)$ No. 318/2022 (X) W.P.(C) No. 1218/2020 (X) W.P.(C) No. 1332/2020 (X) SLP(C) No. 3289/2021 (XV) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 1917-1918/2018 in C.A. No. 10013-10014/2016 $(XIV-A)$ W.P.(C) No. 1312/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No. $875/2019$ (X) $W.P.(C)$ No. 832/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No. $601/2019$ (X) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 619-620/2019 in C.A. No. 10013-10014/2016 (XIV- $\mathbf{A}$ ) $W.P.(C)$ No. 500/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No. $512/2019$ (X) $W.P.(C)$ No. 466/2019 (X) 🗱 P.(C) No. 511/2019 (X) $W.P.(C)$ No. 86/2021 (X)

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SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

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Date : 04-11-2022 These petitions were called on for pronouncement of judgment today.

For the Parties Mr. C.A. Sundaram, Sr. Adv. (for EPFO) Mr. Siddharth, AOR Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Gupta, Adv. Mr. Zafar Inayat, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Prasenjit Keswani, Adv. Mr. Rohan Thawani, Adv. Mr. Upmanyu Tewari, Adv. Ms. Sonia Dube, Adv. Mr. Shatadru Chakraborty, Adv. Ms. Surbhi Anand, Adv. M/S. Legal Options, AOR Mr. Manish Singhvi, Sr.Adv. Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR Ms. Urvashi Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pooja Dhar, AOR Mr. Ramjee Pandey, AOR Mr. Girijesh Pandey, Adv. Ms. Alapana Pandey, Adv. Mr Ajay Kumar Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Raghvendra Shukla Adv. Mr. Uday Prakas, Adv. Mr. Somanatha Padhan, AOR Mr. Anand Varma, AOR Mr. Rajesh Gupta, Adv. Harpreet Singh, adv. Mr. Ajay Chandra, Adv. Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, AOR Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, AOR Ms.Shreya Bhojnagarwala Adv. Mrs. Lalita Kaushik, AOR Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, AOR Ms. Srija Chowdhury, Adv Mr. Anant, Adv Ms. Manjula Gupta, AOR Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR Mr. Saksham Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. Anand Dilip Landge, AOR

Mrs. Rani Chhabra, AOR Ms. Riya Sethi, Adv. Ms. Binisa Mohanty, Adv. Mr. Mritunjay Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr.Aditya Dhawan Adv Ms.Kiran Dhawan, Adv. Mr. Shashank Shekhar,Adv Mr. Ronak Baid, Adv. Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, AOR Mr. Y. Raja Gopala Rao, AOR Ms. Vismai Rao, Adv. Mr. Korada Pramod Kumar, Adv. Mr. Dhuli Gopi Krishna, Adv. Mr. Y Ramesh, Adv. Mr. K K Venugopal, AG (NP) Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, ASG Mr. Sanjay Kumar Jain, ASG Mr. R.Balasubramanian, Sr.Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. Mr. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Mr. Siddhartha Sinha, Adv. Mr. Prashant Rawat, Adv. Mr. Tathagat Sharma, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Mr. Shivam Singhania, Adv. Mr. Nring Chamwibo Zeliang, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Rahul Pratap, AOR Mr. R.Anand Padmanabhan, adv. Mr. Shashi Bhushan Kumar, AOR Mr. Himanshu Gupta, Adv. Mr. Manoj C. Mishra, AOR Mr. Ashwin Kumar D S Adv. Ms. Surbhi Mehta, AOR Mr. Pranesh, AOR Bahar U Barqi, Adv. Maroof Ahmad, Adv. Mr. Aftab Ali Khan, AOR Mr. Anil Nag, AOR Mr. Mohit Paul, AOR

Mr. Kartik Nayar, Adv. Mr. Rishab Kumar, Adv. Ms. Rangoli Seth, Adv. Mr. Jamshed P. Cama, Sr.Adv. Mr. Soumya Chakraborty, Sr.Adv. Mr Benny P Thomas, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Shukla, Adv. Ms. Shivani Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR Mr. Md. Shahid Anwar, AOR Mr. Syed Rehan, Adv. Mr. Devendra Nath Tripathi, Adv. M.Jaggannath R., Adv. Dr. K P Kylasanatha Pillay, Sr.Adv. Mr. C.M Sundaram Iyer, Mr. A. Venayagam Balan, AOR Mr. Jayanth Muth Raj, Sr.Adv. Ms. V.P. Seemanthini, Sr.Adv. Ms. Anu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Abraham C.Mathews, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Goel, Adv. Mr. Santhosh Krishnan, Adv. Mr. Devashish Bharuka, Adv. Mr Sriram P. Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mr. Devashish Bharuka, Adv. Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.A., AOR Ms. Anu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Santhosh Krishnan, Adv. Mr. Shaji J. K., Adv. Mr. Babu K., Adv. Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR Mr. Rishabh Sancheti, Adv. Ms. Padma Priya, Adv. Mr. Anchit Bhandari, Adv. Mr. Suyash Jain, Adv. Mr Zeeshan Ali, Adv. Mr Shubham Jain, Adv. Mr. K. Paari Vendhan, AOR Mr S.D. Singh, Adv Mr. Harsh Nandwana, Adv Ms. Bharti Tyagi, AOR

Ms. Meenu Singh, Adv.

Ms. Shweta Sinha, Adv. Mr. Ram Kripal Singh, Adv Mr. Siddharth Singh, Adv. Mr. V.N. Koura, Adv. Mrs. Paramjeet Benipal, adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Shantanu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sajeev Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Mohan Sinha, Adv. Mr Bikash Chandra, Adv. Mr. D D Sharma, adv Mr. Rajeev Kumar Deora, Adv. Mr. Kaushal Kishore, Adv. Mr. Pramod Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Naresh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Vijay Pal, Adv. Ms. Kajal Kumar, Adv. Mr Ravinder Kumar Wadhwa, Adv. Mr. Gunnam Venkateswara Rao, AOR Mr. Rohit Ghosh, Adv. Ms.Anushka Sharda, Adv. M/S. Khaitan & Co., AOR Mr. Rakesh Sinha, Adv. Mr. MG Akbar, Adv. Mr. Jeemoon Raju K, Adv. Mr. Sushant, Adv. Ms. Himoli Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Arvind Gupta, AOR Mr. Rajivkumar, AOR Mr. Puneet Taneja, AOR Mr. Manmohan Singh Narula, Adv. M/S. Parekh & Co., AOR Mr. Anil Nag, AOR Mr. Siddharth Mittal, AOR Mr Tabrez Malawat, Adv Mr. Sourajit Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Syed Hamza, Adv. Mr Sujeet Kumar, Adv Mr Abhaya Nath Das, Adv Mr Rahul Gupta, Adv Ms Riya Soni, Adv Mr S S Bandyopadhyay, Adv

Mr Satish Kumar, AOR Mr. Punit Dutt Tyagi, AOR Mr. Ashish Bhan, Adv. Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, AOR Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv. Mr. Kaustub Narendran, Adv. Mr. Preet Pal Singh, AOR Mr. Rahul Kaushik, AOR Ms. Sangeet Bharti, Adv. Mr.Ashish Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sushil Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Ankit Goel, AOR Mr. Ajit Pudussery, AOR Mr. Vijayan K., Adv. Mr. R.K. Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Rajat Kapoor, Adv Ms. Kheyali Singh, AOR Mr. Ashish Rana, AOR Mr. L.K. Paonam, Adv. Ms. Tomthinnganbi Koijam, Adv. Mr. Niraj Bobby Paonam, Adv. Mr. S. K. Bhattacharya, AOR Mr. Karunakar Mahalik, AOR Mr. Upendra Narayan Mishra, Adv. Mr. Manoranjan Mishra, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar, Adv. Roopam Rai, Adv. Mr. Shyam Sundar Rai, Adv. Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv. Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR M/S. M. V. Kini & Associates, AOR Mr. Rishi K Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Piyush Vatsa, Adv. Ms. Ritu Arora, Adv. Mr Avinash Ankit, Adv. Yukti Anand, Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar - I, AOR Mr. P. A. Noor Muhamed, AOR

Ms Giffara S. Adv Mr. M. Gireesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ankur S. Kulkarni, AOR Ms. Puspita Basak, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Awadhesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Raghuvendra Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Kisalaya Shukla, Adv. Ms. Purnima Jain, Adv Mr.Manish Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr A Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Mishra, AOR Mr. R. Basant, Sr Adv Mr. Raghenth Basant, Adv Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Mr. Vishnu Pazhanganat, Adv Mr. Akshay Sahay, Adv Ms. Roopali Lakhotia, Adv Mr. Ajay Krishna, Adv. M/S. Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mr. P.N. Ravindran, Sr. Adv. Mr. Roy Abraham, Adv. Ms. Reena Roy, Adv. Ms. Seema Jain, Adv. Mr. Akhil Abraham, Adv. Mr. Audhinder Lal, Adv. Ms. Purva, Adv. Mr. Himinder Lal, AOR Mr. Thampan Thomas, Adv. Mr. K.V. Mohan, AOR Ms. Tessy Varghese, Adv. Mr. Vinosh K K., Adv. Ms. Vandana Sehgal, AOR Mr. Anand Dilip Landge, AOR Mr. P. S. Sudheer, AOR Mr. Rishi Maheshwari, Adv. Ms. Anne Mathew, Adv. Mr. Bharat Sood, Adv. Ms. Shruti Jose, Adv. Mr. R. Venkataramani, Sr.Adv. Mr. Vikas Singh, Sr.Adv.

Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Sr.Adv. Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Mr. Ravi Chandra Prakash, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Tripathi, Adv. Mr Amit , Adv Mr. Rajiv Kumar, Adv. Ms. Sushma Singh, Adv. Mr. Trilok Nath Saxena, Adv. Mr. Vipin Kumar Saxena, Adv. Mr. Vipin Sandu, Adv. Mr. Yatish Yadav, Adv. L.Nidhiram Sharma, Adv. Ms. Vani Vyas, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Jugtewat, Adv. Mr. Ikshit Singhal, Adv. Mr Ranvir Singh Chillar, Adv. Mr Chandra Kant Sukumar Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Narendra Kumar Goyal, Adv. Ms. Kajal Rani, Adv. Mr. Lakshmeesh S. Kamath, AOR Ms. Samriti Ahuja, Adv. Mr. Abhay Singh, adv. Ms. Ankita Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Hetu Arora Sethi, AOR Mr. Ankit Acharya, AOR Mr. Manoj V George, Adv. Manju E George, Adv. Mr. B D Das, Adv. Ms. Shilpa Liza George, AOR KM Vignesh Ram, Adv. Ms. Akriti Seth, adv. Mr. Nasib Masih, Adv. Presly Mathai, adv. Dr. K.P. Kylasanatha Pillay, Sr. Adv. Mr. V. Chitambaresh, Sr. Adv. Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR Ms. Pooja Dhar, AOR Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Ms. Deepti S. Rane, Adv. Mr. Subhash S. Kadam, Adv. Ms. Madhvi S.Sawant, Adv. Ms. Kavya S.Lokande, Adv. Ms. Sneha S.Deshmukh, Adv.

Ms. Kavita S.M., Adv. Mr. Naresh Kumar, AOR

Hon'ble Mr. Justice Aniruddha Bose pronounced the judgment of the Bench comprising Hon'ble the Chief Justice of India, His Lordship and Hon'ble Mr. Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia.

Leave granted.

The appeals are allowed and the writ petitions and contempt petitions are disposed of in terms of the signed reportable judgment

Pending application(s), if any, stand disposed of.

(NIRMALA NEGI) (VIDYA NEGI) COURT MASTER (SH) ASSISTANT REGISTRAR (Signed reportable judgment is placed on the file)