Civil Writ Petition No.664 of 1993 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.664 of 1993 Date of Decision:04.11.2011 Managing Committee, Arya College, Ludhiana and another ......Petitioners Versus The Regional Provident Fund Commissioner .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR. Present: Mr.Dheeraj Jain, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr.C.P.Sapra, Advocate, for the respondent. **** M EHINDER S INGH S ULLAR , J.(oral) The petitioners have preferred the present writ petition, for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus and certiorari, for quashing the impugned notice dated 16.10.1992(Annexure P-9), by means of which, they were directed to deposit the contribution towards the Provident Fund, Family Pension and the Deposit Linked Insurance Fund, by the Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner, and to grant exemption from the provisions of The Employees' Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions of 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 25.03.1991, in Civil Writ Petition No.9645 of 1989 titled as The Managing Committee, S.R.P.A. Adarsh Bhartiya College Pathankot and another Versus The Union of India and another, passed by a Coordinate Bench of this Court (R.S.Mongia, J.), the operative Civil Writ Petition No.664 of 1993 2 part of which is, as under:- “Without going into the merits of the case, I deem it proper at this stage to direct the respondent-Authorities to decide the petitioners' representation by passing a speaking order. The petitioners would be at liberty to supplement the representation already submitted, within a fortnight from today, if it so desires and on receipt of any such supplementary representation, if any, the respondents shall decide the matter within two months thereafter by a speaking order. If no supplementary representation is received by 1st May, 1991, the respondents shall be at liberty to decide the representation already with them, within two months from 1st May, 1991. Interim order dated 31st July, 1989 shall continue till the matter is disposed of by the respondent-Authorities.” In this view of the conceded position of the matter on record, the instant writ petition is disposed of in the same terms of the judgment dated 25.03.1991 of this Court in The Managing Committee, S.R.P.A. Adarsh Bhartiya College Pathankot and another's case(supra). Consequently, the impugned notice(Annexure P-9) is set aside and the respondent-Authorities are directed to decide the representation(Annexure P-10), or any other subsequent representation filed by the petitioners in this relevant behalf and to take appropriate action, in accordance with law, within a period of two months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order. Needless to mention here that, the compliance of the order and natural consequences would follow accordingly. November 04, 2011 (MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR) seema JUDGE