Civil Writ Petition No.11653 of 1994 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.11653 of 1994 Date of Decision:30.05.2011 Seth Baikunth Nath Sanatan Dharam Girls Senior Secondary School, Ambala City ......Petitioner Versus The Regional Provident Fund Commissioner for the State of Haryana and others ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR. Present: Mr.Pritam Saini, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.Ashok Aggarwal, Senior Advocate, with Mr.APS Sandhu, Advocate, for respondent No.1. Mr.Rajiv Prashad, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana, for respondent Nos.2 and 3. **** M EHINDER S INGH S ULLAR , J.(oral) The petitioner has preferred the present writ petition in the nature of certiorari, quashing the impugned orders passed under Section 7-A of The Employees' Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952(hereinafter to be referred as “the Act”). Learned counsel for the parties are ad idem that the controversy involved in the instant writ petition is squarely covered and is liable to be disposed of in the same terms of the judgment dated 19.04.2010 in Civil Writ Petition No.6861 of 1992 titled as C.A.V. High School, Hisar through its Secretary Shri Gian Dev Tayal, Hisar Versus The Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, for the State of Haryana and others, passed by a Coordinate Bench of this Court (Augustine George Masih, J.), the operative part of which is, as under:- Civil Writ Petition No.11653 of 1994 2 “In the light of the contentions raised by counsel for the parties, the submission of the petitioner deserves to be accepted in the light of the notifications issued by the Central Government. According to the said notifications, the petitioner was not to be amenable to the provisions of the Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, accordingly the present writ petition deserves to be allowed. The proceedings, therefore, initiated against the petitioner with regard to non contribution from 01.09.1984 to 31.10.1990 cannot be proceeded with and are accordingly quashed. However, prior and beyond the said period, when the notifications ceased to exist, the respondents are at liberty to proceed further. It is further clarified that the petitioner shall have liberty to make all their submissions, which they intend to take as defence with respondent No.1 and the said submissions be considered and taken note of, while proceedings are finalised in accordance with law. The present writ petition stands allowed in above terms.” In this view of the matter and after hearing the learned counsel for the parties, going through the record with their valuable help and after deep consideration of the entire matter, the impugned orders are set aside and the instant writ petition is hereby disposed of in the same terms of the judgment dated 19.04.2010 of this Court in C.A.V. High School's case(supra). May 30, 2011 (MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR) seema JUDGE