Prakash Madhukar Pathak vs. Union Of India
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SUPREME COURT 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 order 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 EMPLOYEE PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION & ANR. Petitioner(s)
VERSUS
SUNIL KUMAR B & ORS.
Respondent $(s)$
WITH $W.P.(C)$ No. 233/2018 (X)
W.P.(C) No. $69/2018$ (X) (IA No. 14965/2018 - EX-PARTE STAY)
$W.P.(C)$ No. 141/2018 (X) (IA No. 26357/2018 - EX-PARTE STAY)
$W.P.(C)$ No. 118/2018 (X)
$W.P.(C)$ No. 250/2018 (X)
$W.P.(C)$ No. 380/2018 (X)
W.P.(C) No. $406/2018$ (X)
$W.P.(C)$ No. 368/2018 (X)
$W.P.(C)$ No. 393/2018 (X)
W.P.(C) No. $395/2018$ (X)
W.P.(C) No. $371/2018$ (X)
W.P.(C) No. $374/2018$ (X)
<pre>%P.(C) No. 372/2018 (X)</pre>$W.P.(C)$ No. 385/2018 (X)
W.P.(C) No. 367/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 369/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 360/2018 (X) (FOR ADMISSION) W.P.(C) No. 411/2018 (X) (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.63451/2018-APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS) W.P.(C) No. 466/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 804/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 594/2018 (X) (IA No.79752/2018-PERMISSION TO FILE SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF DATES) W.P.(C) No. 884/2018 (X) (IA No. 170508/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 146221/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) W.P.(C) No. 778/2018 (X) (IA No. 69081/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 170449/2018 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) W.P.(C) No. 874/2018 (X) (IA No. 44627/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) W.P.(C) No. 1149/2018 (X) (IA No. 117553/2019 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES IA No. 144028/2018 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) W.P.(C) No. 1167/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 1134/2018 (X) (IA No. 51450/2020 - APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING ORIGINAL VAKALATNAMA/OTHER DOCUMENT IA No. 51446/2020 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 1917-1918/2018 in C.A. No. 10013-10014/2016 (XIV-A) (IA No. 85695/2019 - DELETING THE NAME OF PETITIONER/RESPONDENT IA No. 147085/2018 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. IA No. 147082/2018 - PERMISSION TO FILE APPLICATION FOR DIRECTION)
W.P.(C) No. 1430/2018 (X)
W.P.(C) No. 1433/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 1428/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 390/2019 (X) (IA No. 43954/2019 - EX-PARTE STAY) W.P.(C) No. 269/2019 (X) (FOR ADMISSION) W.P.(C) No. 875/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No. 349/2019 (X) (FOR ADMISSION) W.P.(C) No. 327/2019 (X) (IA No. 43329/2019 - EX-PARTE STAY IA No. 84636/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) W.P.(C) No. 466/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No. 352/2019 (X) (IA No. 46449/2019 - STAY APPLICATION) SLP(C) No. 16721-16722/2019 (XI-A) (IA No. 6498/2021 - EX-PARTE STAY IA No. 109139/2020 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 109137/2020 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 6497/2021 - PERMISSION TO PLACE ADDITIONAL FACTS AND GROUNDS) W.P.(C) No. 512/2019 (X) (IA No. 92886/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No. 511/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No. 500/2019 (X) (IA No. 62534/2019 - EX-PARTE STAY IA No. 86926/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 86923/2019 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 619-620/2019 in C.A. No. 10013-10014/2016 (XIV-A) (FOR ADMISSION) W.P.(C) No. 601/2019 (X) (IA No. 73827/2019 - EX-PARTE STAY) W.P.(C) No. 1312/2019 (X)
W.P.(C) No. 832/2019 (X) (IA No. 98935/2020 - EARLY HEARING APPLICATION)
Diary No(s). 22242/2019 (XIV-A)
SLP(C) No. 3289/2021 (XV) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.10606/2021-PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES and IA No.11707/2021-PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES)
SLP(C) No. 2465/2021 (XV) (IA No. 16619/2021 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION IA No. 11703/2021 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES IA No. 9097/2021 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES)
SLP(C) No. 3287/2021 (XV) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.10568/2021-PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES and IA No.11699/2021-PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES)
W.P.(C) No. 1218/2020 (X) (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.107579/2020-EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.)
SLP(C) No. 1366/2021 (XIV) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.9495/2021-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT and IA No.9494/2021-PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES)
W.P.(C) No. 1459/2020 (X) (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.134289/2020-EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.)
W.P.(C) No. 1332/2020 (X)
SLP(C) No. 3290/2021 (XV) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.12571/2021-PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES and IA No.12572/2021-PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES)
W.P.(C) No. 86/2021 (X) (FOR ADMISSION)
SLP(C) No. 1738/2021 (XIV) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.12575/2021-PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES and IA No.12492/2021-PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES)
SLP(C) No. 1701/2021 (XIV)
(FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.12234/2021-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT and IA No.12233/2021-PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES and IA No.12486/2021-PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) ITEM NO.2 SLP(CIVIL) Diary No(s). 46219/2019 (IA No. 8907/2021 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION IA No. 6618/2021 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING IA No. 6619/2021 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN REFILING / CURING THE DEFECTS IA No. 6620/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 6621/2021 - PERMISSION TO FILE SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF DATES) Date : 25-02-2021 These petitions were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE UDAY UMESH LALIT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.M. JOSEPH For Petitioner(s) Mr K. K. Venugopal, AG for Union of India and Employees' Provident Funds Organisation Mr Vikramjit Bannerjee, ASGSr. Adv. for Union of India Mr C. A. Sundaram, Sr. Adv. for Employees' Provident Funds Organisation Mr Siddharth, AOR for Employees' Provident Funds Organisation Mr Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR for Union of India Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv. Mr. Abhsihek Gupta, Adv. Mr Siddhant Kohli, Adv. Mr Amit Kumar Agrawal, Adv. Mr Prashant Rawat, Adv. Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Gupta, Advocate Mr. Manoj C. Mishra, AOR Mr. Somanatha Padhan, AOR Mr. Bahar U. Barqui, Adv. Mohd. Maroof, Adv. Mr. Aftab Ali Khan, AOR
Mr. M.Z. Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Syed Imtiyaz Ali, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Kanva, Adv. Ms. Manjula Chaurasia, Adv. Mr. Shadab Husain Khan, Adv. Ms. Heena Khan, Adv. Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, AOR Mr. Mohit Paul, AOR Mr. Kartik Nayar, Adv Ms. Sunaina Phul, Adv. Mr. Rishab Kumar, Adv. Mr. R.R. Kumar, Adv. Mr. Amrendra Kumar, Adv. Ms. Manjula Gupta, AOR Mr. Girijesh Pandey, Adv. Mr. Chandrakant Shukla, Adv. Mr. Ramjee Pandey, AOR Mr. Anand Padmanabhan, Adv. Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Mr. Ravi Chandra Prakash, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Vani Vyas, Adv. Ms. Sujata Muni, Adv. Mr. Amit, Adv. Mr.Rajesh Gupta, Advocate Mr.Harpreet Singh, Advocate Mr.Ajay Chandra, Advocate Mr.Pranjal Saran, Advocate Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, AOR Mr. Anip Sachthey, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aditya Dhawan, Adv. Ms. Anjali Chauhan, Adv. Ms. Ria Sachthey, Adv. M/S Ars Associates, AOR Mr. Anand Varma, AOR Mr. Abhishek Prasad, Adv. Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, AOR Mrs. Lalita Kaushik, AOR Mr. Shashank Shekhar, Adv.
| Ms. Sheetal Rajput, Adv.<br>Mr. Sanjeev Gupta, Adv.<br>Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, AOR | |
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| Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR | |
| Mr. Y. Raja Gopala Rao, AOR | |
| Mr. R. Anand Padmanabhan,Adv.<br>Mr. Shashi Bhushan Kumar, AOR | |
| Ms. Aparajita Singh, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Rahul Pratap, AOR<br>Mr. Anil Nag, AOR<br>Petitioner-in-person | |
| Mr.Ritin Rai, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Neeraj Chaudhary, Adv.<br>Ms. Rashmi Verma, Adv.<br>Mr. Gopal Shankarnarayan, Adv.<br>Ms. Pooja Dhar, AOR<br>Mr. Rohan Thawani, Adv.<br>Mr. Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj, Adv. | |
| Ms. Surbhi Mehta, AOR | |
| For Respondent(s) | Mr. A. Venayagam Balan, AOR<br>Mr.C.M.Sundaram Iyer, Advocate<br>Mr. Md. Shahid Anwar, AOR |
| Mr.<br>Raghbunath Singh, Adv.<br>Mohd. Naseem Mughal, Adv.<br>Mr. Ajay Amritraj, Adv. | |
| Mr. Jamshed Pesi Cama, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Benny P. Thomas, Adv.<br>Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR | |
| Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR | |
| Mr. Rishabh Sancheti, Adv.<br>Ms. Padma Priya, Adv.<br>Mr. K. Paari Vendhan, AOR<br>Mr. Anchit Bhandari, Adv.<br>Ms. Shreya Gupta, Adv. | |
| Mr. S.D. Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Harsh Nandwana, Adv. |
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Mr. Jitender Singh, Adv. Mr. Ram Kripal Singh, Adv. Ms. Meenu Singh, Adv. Mr. Dhiraj Kumar, Adv. Ms. Shweta Sinha, Adv. Ms. Bharti Tyagi, AOR Mr. V.N. Koura, Adv. Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Paramjeet Benipal,Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr. Abhishek Gupta, Adv. Ms. Ikshita Singh, Adv. Mr. Gunnam Venkateswara Rao, AOR M/S. Khaitan & Co., AOR Mr. Siddharth Mittal, AOR Mr. Tabrex Malawat, Adv. Ms. Swagoti Batchas, Adv. Mr. V. K. Shukla, Adv. Mr. Sugam Mishra, Adv. Mr. Satish Kumar, AOR Mr. D.P. Mohanty, Adv. Ms. S.kshmi Iyer, Adv. Mr. Ishan Nagar, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Gaur, Adv M/S. Parekh & Co., AOR Mr. Rajivkumar, AOR Mr. Anil Nag, AOR Mr. Puneet Taneja, AOR Mr. Adarsh Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Manmohan Singh, Adv. Ms. Laxmi, Adv. Mr. Mohit Rohatgi, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv. Mr. Kaustub Narendran, Adv. Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, AOR Mr. Sachin Datta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rahul Kaushik, AOR Ms. Bhuvneshwari Pathak, Adv. Ms. Shilpi Satyapriya Satyam, Adv. Mr. Preet Pal Singh, AOR Ms. Sangeeta Bharti,Adv. Mr. Sushil Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Ajit Pudussery, AOR Mr. R.K.Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Rajat Kapoor, Adv. Ms. Kheyali Singh, AOR Mr. Naveen R. Nath, AOR Ms. Hetu Arora Sethi, Adv. Ms. Lalit Mohini Bhat, Adv. Mr. Abhimanyu Verma, Adv. Mr. Rahul Jain, Adv. Mr. V. Chitambaresh, Sr. Adv. Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi, Advocate Mr. Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Satyam Pandey, Adv. Ms. Madhubala, Adv. Mr. Atul Khaneja, Adv. Mr. Rajan Parmar, Adv. Mr. Amit Upreti, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Mishra, AOR Mr. R. Venkatramani, Sr. Adv. Mr. M. Gireesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ankur S. Kulkarni, AOR Mr. S. Parthasarathi, Adv. Ms. Nandini Gore, Adv. Ms. Tahira Karanjawala, Adv. Ms. Natasha Sahrawat, Adv. Mr. Raghvendra Pratap Singh, Adv M/S. Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mr. R. Basant, Sr. Adv. Mr. Raghenth Basant, Adv. Ms. Rasna Kalkat, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Pazhangana, Adv. Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Mr. Himinder Lal, AOR Mr.Mohan Parasaran, Sr. Adv.
Mr Ashwin Kumar DS, Adv. Mr. Aditi Dani, Adv., Mr. Vishnu Kumar, Adv. Ms. Surbhi Mehta, AOR Mr. Lakshmeesh S. Kamath, AOR Mr. Abhay Singh, Adv. Ms. Ankita Agarwal, Adv Mr. Jayant Muthuraj, sr. Adv. Mr. P. S. Sudheer, AOR Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, AOR Ms. V.P. Seemanthini, Sr. Adv. Mr. Gaurav Agarwal, Adv. Mr. N.K. Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, Adv. Ms. Anu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Keshav Mohan, Adv. Mr. R.K. Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Piyush Vatsa, Adv. Ms. Ritu Arora, Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar-I-, AOR Mr. Yatish Mohan, Adv. Mr. Subhash Chandra Sagar, Adv. Mr. E.C. Vidya Sagar, AOR Mr. A.P. Singh, Adv. Ms. Neetika Sharma, Adv. M/s M.V. Kini & Associates, AOR Dr. Ashwani Bharadwaj, AOR Mr. Vinay Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Romil Pathak, Adv.
Mr Ashish Rana, AOR
UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R
Issue notice in all fresh matters, returnable on 23.03.2021.
It shall be the responsibility of the petitioners to serve the respondents on or before 12.03.2021. The petitioners are at liberty to serve notices upon the learned advocates who had entered appearance on behalf of the concerned respondents in the High Court(s) and service upon such learned advocates shall be taken to be service upon the respondents.
The affidavit of service shall be filed in the Registry of this Court by 15.03.2021.
All the respondents are at liberty to file their submissions, not exceeding three pages along with the documents on which they wish to place reliance. Such responses/submissions shall be filed by 17.03.2021.
The rejoinder, if any, be filed by the petitioners before 20.3.2021.
It is made clear that under no circumstance, the matters shall be adjourned and the matters shall be taken up for hearing on dayto-day basis.
For facility, we direct;
(i) SLP (C) No(s). 8658-8659/2019, 16721-16722/2019 [arising from the judgment dated 12.10.2018 passed by the High Court of Kerala];
(ii) SLP(C) Diary No(s). 46219/2019 [arising from the judgment dated 22.5.2019 passed by the High Court of Delhi] along with connected matter being SLP(C) No. 1366/2021 [arising from the judgment dated 16.12.2019 passed by the High Court of Delhi];
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(iii) SLP(C) No. 2465/2021 [arising from judgment dated 28.08.2019 passed by the High Court of Rajasthan, Jaipur]; and
(iv) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 1917-1918/2018 in C.A. No. 10013- 10014/2016 [seeking implementation of the order dated 04.10.2016 passed by this Court in C.A.No.10013/201 :R.C. Gupta & Ors. Etc. etc. vs. Regional Provident Fund Commissioner Employees Provident Fund Organization & Ors. Etc.] shall be taken up as lead matters representing the respective categories of matters.
Rest of the matters shall also be listed on the same day.
Pending further consideration, no contempt application seeking implementation of any of the orders passed in the aforesaid four categories of matters, shall be taken up by any Court.
In the contempt petition(s) pending in this Court, personal presence of the alleged contemnor stands dispensed with.
Diary No(s). 22242/2019
A letter has been circulated seeking liberty to withdraw the contempt petition. Request is accepted.
The Contempt Petition is closed.
(INDU MARWAH) (VIRENDER SINGH) COURT MASTER (SH) BRANCH OFFICER