Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1948

The respondent filed a suit against the Coal Mines Provident Fund Commissioner without the notice required under Section 80 of the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC). The Commissioner contended that he was a "public officer" within the meaning of Section 2(17)(h) CPC, making the suit incompetent. The trial court and the Pat…

Ramashankar Pandey, a retired employee of South Eastern Coal Fields Ltd., had opted for a 90% pension under the Coal Mines Pension Scheme, 1998, which entitled his widow to a lump‑sum payment of 100 times his monthly pension upon his death. After his death on 12 January 2011, the widow’s claim for the lump sum was reje…

The appellant, Shanti Devi, sought to revive a writ petition filed by her late husband, a retired Coal India employee, challenging the stoppage of his pension and a demand for repayment of over Rs 8 lakhs. The earlier petition for refund of a smaller amount had been dismissed by the Patna High Court on the ground of la…