CWP No.14946 of 2000 (O&M) [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.14946 of 2000 (O&M) Date of Decision: 04.07.2011 Dev Raj Vinayak ... Petitioner Versus Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, Haryana and Anr. ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN Present: Mr. Ashwani Talwar, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Rajiv Hooda, Advocate for Mr. Kamal Sehgal, Advocate, for the respondents. ***** 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? YES/NO 2. To be referred to the reporters or not? YES/NO 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest? YES/NO K. KANNAN, J. (Oral) 1. The petitioner's grievance in this writ petition is that a recovery certificate has been issued under Employees' Provident Fund Act, 1952 without service of any notice of assessment. The matter was contested by the respondents and they have filed along with the reply an order of assessment issued on 16.10.1997. The counsel for the petitioner states that after the reply was filed and when copy of the assessment was supplied by the respondents, the petitioner filed an appeal against this assessment in the manner contemplated under the Act but however, no order was passed on account of pendency of the writ petition by the competent authority. I do not think there is any need for passing any order to recall the recovery certificate. Suffice it CWP No.14946 of 2000 (O&M) [2] to direct the competent authority constituted under the Act to dispose of any appeal filed by the petitioner against the order of assessment dated 16.10.1997 (Annexure R/2), if the same has not already been disposed of. The petitioner shall be entitled to serve notice of hearing for personal representation and decision shall be taken by the competent authority in accordance with law, as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of 12 weeks. 2. With the above observations, the present writ petition is dismissed. JULY 04, 2011 ( K. KANNAN ) Rajan JUDGE