Prakash Madhukar Pathak vs. Union Of India

ITEM NO.41

COURT NO.2

SECTION XI-A

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (C) Nos.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 EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION & ANR. Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

SUNIL KUMAR B & ORS.

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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. 380/2018 (X) Date : 12-07-2022 These matters were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE UDAY UMESH LALIT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. RAVINDRA BHAT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHANSHU DHULIA For Petitioner(s) Mr. KK Venugopal, Ld. AG Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Jain, ASG Mr. R. Bala, Adv. Mr. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Mr. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mrs. Rani Chhabra, AOR Ms. Binisa Mohanty, Adv. Mr. Mritunjay Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. Aditya Dhawan, Adv. Ms. Kiran Dhawan, Adv. Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, AOR Mr. C.A. Sundaram, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddharth, AOR Mr. Abhishek Gupta, Adv. Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv. Mr. Zafar Shyat, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Y. Raja Gopala Rao, AOR Mr. Karada Pramad Kumar, Adv. Mr. Dhuli Gopikrishna, Adv. Mr. R. Anand Padmanabhan, Adv. Mr. Shashi Bhushan Kumar, AOR Mr. Himanshu Gupta, Adv. Mr. Manoj C. Mishra, AOR

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Mr. Bahar U. Barqui, Adv. Mr. Ashwin Kumar D.S., Adv. Ms. Aditi Dani, Adv. Mr. Rangasaran Mohan, Adv. Ms. Surbhi Mehta, AOR Mr. Mohit Paul, AOR Mr. Kartik Nayar, Adv. Mr. Rishab Kumar, Adv. Ms. Anushka Sharda, Adv. Mr. Rohit Ghosh, Adv. Ms. Smriti Nair, Adv. Mr. Girijesh Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raghvendra Shukla, Adv. Mr. K. Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Ramjee Pandey, AOR Mr. Akash Kakade, Adv. Mr. Somanatha Padhan, AOR Mr. Swetab Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anand Varma, AOR Ms. Apoorva Pandey, Adv. Ms. Adyasha Nanda, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Gupta, Adv. Mr. Harpreet Singh, Adv. Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, AOR Mr. Ajay Chandera, Adv. Ms. Roopali Lakhotia, Adv. Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, AOR Mr. R.R. Kumar, Adv. Mr. Amrender Kumar, Adv. Ms. Manjula Gupta, AOR Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR Mr. Anand Dilip Landge, AOR Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Mr. Ravi Chandra Prakash, Adv. Mr. Amit, Adv. Ms. Vani Vyas, Adv. Mr. Vipin Kumar Saxena, Adv. Mr. Maneesh Saxena, Adv. Mr. Trilok Nath Saxena, Adv. Mr. Sagar Kumar, Adv. Mr. L. Nidhiram Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sushma Singh, Adv.

	Mr. Mukesh Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Abhishek Tripathi, Adv.<br>Ms. Kajal Rani, Adv.<br>Mr. Amar Kumar Raizada, Adv.<br>Ms. Amita, Adv.
	Mrs.<br>Lalita Kaushik, AOR<br>Petitioner-in-person
	Mr. Pranesh, AOR
	Mr. Anil Nag, AOR
	M/S.<br>Legal Options, AOR
	Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR
	Mr. Rahul Pratap, AOR
	Ms. Pooja Dhar, AOR
	Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, AOR
For Respondent(s)	Mr. J.P. Cama, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Benny P. Thomas, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajiv Shukla, Adv.<br>Ms. Shivani Kapoor, Adv.<br>Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR
	Dr. K.P. Kylasanatha Pillay, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. A. Venayagam Balan, AOR<br>Mr. C.M. Sundaram, Adv.
	Ms. Seemandhni, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Adv.<br>Mr. Santosh Krishnan, Adv.<br>Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR<br>Ms. Anu K. Joy, Adv.<br>Mr. Alum Anvar, Adv.
	Mr. Aftab Ali Khan, AOR<br>Mr. Md. Shahid Anwar, AOR<br>Mr. K. Paari Vendhan, AOR<br>Ms. Bharti Tyagi, AOR
	Dr. M.K. Pandey, Adv.<br>Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR<br>Mr. Tejendra singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Niranjan Sahu, Adv.<br>Mr. Umakant Misra, Adv
	M/S.<br>Khaitan & Co., AOR<br>Mr. Siddharth, AOR

M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Pramod Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Parul Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Gupta, Adv. Mr. Gunnam Venkateswara Rao, AOR Ms. Ikshita Singh, Adv. Mr. Dishant Bhati, Adv. M/S. Parekh & Co., AOR Mr. Rajivkumar, AOR Mr. Puneet Taneja, AOR Ms. Laxmi Kumari, Adv. Ms. Priti, Adv. Mr. Manmohan singh Narula, Adv. Mr. Anil Nag, AOR Mr. Siddharth Mittal, AOR Mr. V.K. Shukla, Adv. Mr. S.S. Bandhopadhyay, Adv. Mr. Rahul Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shsashank Sharma, Adv. Ms. Riya Soni, Adv. Ms. Beena, Adv. Ms. Arina Bhattacharjee, Adv. Mr. Tabrez Malawat, Adv: Mr. Syed Hamza, Adv Mr. N D Kaushik, Adv Mr. Abhaya Nath Das, Adv Mr. Satish Kumar, AOR Mr. Arvind Gupta, AOR Mr. Rakesh Sinha, Adv. Md. Gulam Akbar, Adv. Mr. Jeemon Raju K., Adv. Mr. Narendra Mohanrajesh, Adv. Ms. Kirti Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Mohit Rohatgi, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv. Mr. Kaustub Narendran, Adv. Mr. Aayush Mitruka, Adv. Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, AOR Mr. Preet Pal Singh, AOR Mr. Rahul Kaushik, AOR

Mr. Punit Dutt Tyagi, AOR Ms. Sangeeta Bharti, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar, Adv. Ms. Vrinda Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Sushil Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. R.K.Kapoor , Adv. Mr. Rajat Kapoor, Adv. Ms. Kheyali Singh, AOR Mr. Ashish Rana, AOR Mr. Anurag Kr. Singh, Adv. Ms. Debasmita Goswami, Adv. Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Mr. Abdulla Naseeh V.T., Adv. Ms. Neetica Sharma, Adv. M/S. M. V. Kini & Associates, AOR Ms. Supriya R. Sharma, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Vivek Sharma, Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar - I, AOR Mr. P. A. Noor Muhamed, AOR Mr. P.N. Ravindran, Sr. Adv. Mr. Roy Abraham, Adv. Ms. Reena Roy, Adv. Mr. Himinder Lal, AOR Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Mr. Lakshmeesh S. Kamath, AOR Ms. Samriti Ahuja, Adv. Mr. Shashi Bhushan Kumar, AOR Mr. Hetu Arora Sethi, AOR Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, AOR Mr. Manoj V. George, Adv. Ms. Shilpa Liza George, AOR Ms. Akriti Seth, Adv. Mr. K.M. Vignesh Ram, Adv. Mr. Renjith V. Philip, Adv. Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Pooja Dhar, AOR Mr. Pratal Pratap Singh, Adv.

Mr. Mantavya Sharma, Adv. Ms. Jhanvi Dubey, Adv. Mr. Neeraj chaudhari, Adv. Mr. P. S. Sudheer, AOR Mr. Rishi Maheshwari, Adv. Ms. Anne Mathew, Adv. Ms. Shruti Jose, Adv. Mr. Bharat Sood, Adv. Ms. Nandini Gore, Adv. Ms. Natasha Sahrawat, Adv. Ms. Tahira Karanjawala, Adv. Mr. Shreyas Maheshwari, Adv. M/S. Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mr. Kylashanatha Pilay, Sr. Adv. Mr. V. Chitambaresh, Sr. Adv. Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR Mr. M. Gireesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ankur S. Kulkarni, AOR Ms. Puspita Basak, Adv. Mr. R. Basant, Sr. Adv. Mr. Raghenth Basant, Adv. Ms. Roopali Lakhotia, Adv. Mr. Vishnu P., Adv. Mr. Akshay Sahay, Adv. Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Mr. Anand Dilip Landge, AOR Mr. V.N. Koura, Adv. Mrs. Paramjeet Benipal, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, AOR Mr. Praveen Kr. Singh, Adv. M/s. Arputham Aruna & co. Mr. Rishabh Sancheti, Adv. Ms. Padma Priya, Adv. Mr. Anchit Bhandari, Adv. Mr. Suyash Jain, Adv. Ms. Saloni Bhandari, Adv. Mr. K. Paarivendhan, AOR Mr. Sameer Parekh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Sharma, Adv. Mr. Abhiram Naik, Adv. Mr. Ishan Nagar, Adv. Dr. Ashwani Bhardwaj, Adv. Mrs. Vinay Bhardwaj, Adv.

Ms. Pratiksha Sharma, Adv. Ms. Radhika Maharwal, Adv. Mr. Mueed Shah, Adv. Mr. Ankit Acharya, AOR Mr. Kartik Nayar, Adv. Mr. Rishab Kumar, Adv. INTERVENOR Mr. Sanjay Parikh, Sr. Adv. Ms. Srishti Agnihotri, AOR Mr. Satwik Parikh, Adv. Ms. Sanjana Grace Thomas, Adv. Mr. Rohan Thanwani, Adv. Ms. Pooja Dhar, Adv. Mr. Pratul Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Mantavya Sharma, Adv. IMPLEADERS Mr. Sunil Kumar, Adv. LEGAL OPTIONS Mr. Prasenjit Keswani, Adv. Mr. Upmanyu Tewari, Adv. Ms. Sonia Dube, Adv. Mr. Debottam Bose, Adv. Mr. K. V. Mohan, AOR Ms. Surbhi Mehta, AOR Mr. Rakesh Mishra, AOR Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, AOR Ms. Vandana Sehgal, AOR Mr. S. K. Bhattacharya, AOR Mr. Ankit Goel, AOR Mr. Ajit Pudussery, AOR UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

List the entire bunch of these matters before a Bench of which Hon'ble Mr. Justice S. Ravindra Bhat is not a member.

For placing the matter before the another Bench of three

Judges of this, List for direction before the appropriate Court as first Item on Board on 15.07.2022.

(INDU MARWAH) (VIRENDER SINGH) COURT MASTER (SH) BRANCH OFFICER