Employees' Provident Fund Scheme, 1952

The appellants, Lakshmani Stone Products, operated stone quarries and performed crushing of stones. They challenged the applicability of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, arguing that no notification under Section 4 had listed stone quarries in the Schedule, and therefore the Act sh…

The appellants, managers of an establishment exempted from the Employees' Provident Funds Scheme 1952 under Section 17, failed to make provident‑fund contributions to their own trust in 1974. The Provident Fund Inspector filed criminal complaints under Sections 14(1A), 14(2) and 14(2A) of the Employees' Provident Funds…

The case concerned whether Anadi Nath Banerjee, whose land was acquired for the Sonepur Bazari Open Cast Project, was entitled to employment under a tripartite agreement that promised jobs to land‑losers possessing at least two acres. The Land Acquisition Collector’s certificate recorded Banerjee’s own holding as 0.300…

The petitioners, Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd. and another, challenged the constitutionality of Paragraph 80(2) of the Employees' Provident Fund Scheme, 1952, which exempts newspaper employees from the income‑ceiling test for PF benefits. They argued that the provision arbitrarily singled out the newspaper indust…

Hindustan Times Ltd., the employer, delayed remitting Employees' Provident Fund contributions for several periods between 1965 and 1968. The Department issued a notice in 1971 and, after a long lapse, a show‑cause notice in 1979, finally levying damages under Section 14‑B of the Employees' Provident Fund and Miscellane…