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The petitioner, M/s Sanjeevan Vidyalaya Trust, filed two writ petitions challenging orders made under Section 14B of the Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. The petitioner had already filed appeals (EPFA No.8 of 2026 and EPFA No.2 of 2026) before the appropriate …
M/s. Shivtara Properties Pvt. Ltd. challenged the order of the Central Government Industrial Tribunal‑2 (CGIT‑2) which allowed a stay of EPF liability on the condition that the petitioners deposit 35% of the assessed amount. The petitioners argued that the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner (RPFC) …
The Central Board of Trustees, EPF filed a writ petition challenging the order dated 19 September 2016 of the Provident Fund Appellate Tribunal (PFAT) which partially set aside an earlier order under Section 14B of the Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 for the period …
The petitioner, Bridgenext India Pvt. Ltd., filed a writ petition seeking relief because it could not file a stay application in an appeal before the Central Government Industrial Tribunal-II (CGIT-II) due to the vacancy of the Presiding Officer. The petition highlighted that the post was …
The Committee of Management of M/S Ram Lakhan Bhatt International School filed a writ petition challenging a finding on the number of employees in the institution. The petitioners did not first pursue the appeal provision under the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, …
M/s. Shubham Mahila Vikas Mandal obtained a Section 7A order ascertaining Provident Fund dues and a Section 7B order rejecting its review petition. The petitioner appealed to the Central Government Industrial Tribunal (CGIT) under Order 23 of the Code of Social Security, 2020, claiming lack of a …
Nestor Hotels Pvt. Ltd. filed a writ petition before the Bombay High Court challenging the actions of the Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner, Kandivali. The petitioner argued that the High Court should entertain the petition despite the existence of an alternative remedy under Section 7‑I of the …
The Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) issued notices demanding contribution from Shree Mahila Gruh Udyog Lijjat Papad, a society of women who roll papads at home, alleging that the society was an "establishment" under the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948. The ESIC Court had earlier …
The Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) issued notices demanding contribution from Shree Mahila Gruh Udyog Lijjat Papad, a society of women who roll papads at home, alleging that the society was an "establishment" under the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948. The ESIC Court had earlier …
Jata Shankar Singh filed a writ petition alleging that the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) failed to create his Universal Account Number (UAN) and remit his provident fund contributions due to missing KYC details. The EPFO, through its counter‑affidavit, stated that the grievance was …
M/s Moti Singh Jogeshwari Ayurved College and Hospital filed a writ petition challenging ex parte orders of the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner that imposed damages of Rs.19,29,788 under Section 14B and interest of Rs.13,77,716 under Section 7Q of the Employees’ Provident Funds and …
The petitioner, Shivalok Gas Agency, challenged an order dated 03‑12‑2012 issued by the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner under Section 7‑A of the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, which deemed the agency covered by the Act and assessed a liability of Rs 2,15,163. …
The Central Board of Trustees Employees Provident Fund Organisation appealed a single‑judge order that directed the EPF authority to pay simple interest at 6 % per annum on Rs 10,12,692 deposited by M/s Longia Bidi Co. in compliance with a 2009 court order. The petitioner argued that the amount, …
The petitioner, M/s. Kunj Glass Pvt. Ltd., challenged an order dated 24 June 2008 in which the Competent Authority, exercising powers under Section 7A of the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, denied its request for documents and records that formed the basis of a …
M/s Steel Strong Valves (I) Pvt Ltd filed a petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution challenging a Section 7A order of the Employees Provident Funds Act that demanded a lump‑sum PF payment of Rs 67,67,894 without any calculation. The order arose after an enforcement officer found …
The petitioner, AVM Oil Fields Services, filed a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution seeking a stay of recovery proceedings initiated by the Employees Provident Fund Organization under a Section 7A order dated 14‑11‑2025. The petition was filed because the appeal against that order is …
The appellant, Torino Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., challenged the EPF authorities' decision to treat it as part of its sister company, Vindas Chemical Industries Pvt. Ltd., for the purposes of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. The authorities had clubbed the two …
The Ideal Fine Arts Society runs two educational institutions – the Ideal Institute (8 employees) and Mathosri Manikbai Kothari College of Visual Arts (18 employees) – on the same campus. The Enforcement Officer reported a total of 26 employees, triggering coverage under the Employees' Provident …
The Supreme Court examined the legality of the Central Government's 2014 amendment (G.S.R. 609(E)) to the Employees' Pension Scheme, 1995, which raised the maximum pensionable salary, introduced a joint option for employees earning above Rs.15,000, and required such employees to contribute an …
The appellants, including Checkmate Services Pvt. Ltd., deposited employees' EPF and ESI contributions after the statutory due dates and claimed deductions under s.36(1)(va) of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The Assessing Officer disallowed the deduction, holding that the amounts constituted "income" …
The Supreme Court examined whether Pawan Hans Ltd., a government‑owned company, was exempt from the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (EPF Act) and whether its contractual employees were entitled to provident‑fund benefits. The trade union representing the contractual …
The Supreme Court examined whether three entities – Shree Vishal Printers Ltd (SVPL), Times Publishing House Ltd (TPHL) and Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd (BCCL) Jaipur – could claim exemption from the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 under Section 16(1)(d). The Court …
The Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner issued a notice under Section 7A of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, demanding that the Uttar Pradesh State Warehousing Corporation pay EPF contributions for 159 workers who performed loading and unloading in its godowns …
The Supreme Court heard a writ petition filed by the National Campaign Committee for Central Legislation on Construction Labour (NCC‑CL) seeking effective implementation of the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 (BOCW Act) and the …
MIS. Yeshwant Gramin Shikshan Sanstha, a society that runs 29 grant‑in‑aid schools and colleges in Maharashtra, appointed 16 part‑time librarians with the permission of the State Government. The Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner claimed the society had defaulted on EPF contributions for those …
The Himachal Pradesh Government introduced the 1999 Pension Scheme for employees of state-owned corporations, replacing the Employees' Provident Funds Scheme, 1995. After a high‑level committee found the scheme financially unsustainable, the Government issued a notification on 2 December 2004 …
The Central Provident Fund Commissioner appealed against the trial court’s rejection of an application under Order VII, Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which sought dismissal of the plaint filed by Lala J.R. Education Society. The appellants argued that the respondents had exhausted remedies …
The case concerned a tea estate (Mathura Tea Estate) that defaulted on EPF contributions. After the estate was taken over by Eveready Industries (later McLeod Russel India Ltd.), the new management argued it was not the "employer" liable for damages under Section 148 of the Employees' Provident …
The dispute concerned the calculation of Hill Development Allowance (HDA) for workers of Kichha Sugar Company Limited, where the workmen claimed that overtime wages and leave encashment should be included in the basic wage base for the 15% HDA. The employer argued that HDA should be computed only on …
PGF Limited, which sold and developed agricultural land and ran joint‑venture schemes, was directed by SEBI to cease collecting money and to refund investors, on the ground that its activities constituted a collective investment scheme (CIS) under Section 11AA of the SEBI Act. PGF challenged the …
The Supreme Court considered whether two sister private companies, L.N. Gadodia & Sons and Delhi Farming & Construction Pvt. Ltd., should be treated as a single establishment under the Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. Both firms shared common directors, a managing …
The Supreme Court examined whether employees of the Pepsu Road Transport Corporation could claim pension benefits under a scheme introduced in 1992 despite not exercising the option to join the scheme or refunding advances taken from the employer's C.P.F. contribution as required by the …
The Supreme Court examined whether sugar bags pledged by two cooperative sugar mills to Maharashtra State Co‑operative Bank Ltd. could be attached and sold to satisfy the employer's liabilities under the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. The Court held that Section …
Krishan Lal challenged the appointment of respondent No.4 as Mechanist Grinder Instructor, alleging that the candidate did not satisfy the five‑year practical/teaching experience requirement and that the experience certificates were invalid because the issuing establishments had not deposited …
The Supreme Court examined whether the statutory first‑charge provisions in the Bombay Sales Tax Act (s.38C) and the Kerala General Sales Tax Act (s.26B) conflicted with the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (ORT Act) and the Securitisation and Reconstruction of …
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL), a public sector undertaking, received a notice under Section 45A of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 for non‑payment of ESI contributions for the period 1981‑1991. BHEL argued that the workers were employed by contractors and therefore sought to implead …
The petitioners, employees of ITDC's Hotel Agra Ashok, challenged the Government of India's decision to disinvest the hotel by selling it to a private party, alleging the sale price was too low, the transfer of their services without consent violated Articles 14, 21 and 311, and that the Voluntary …
The Regional Provident Fund Commissioner (RPFC) sought to enforce the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (EPF Act) against Sanatan Dharm Girls Secondary School and other non‑governmental educational institutions in Rajasthan. The State had enacted the Rajasthan …
The case arose from the merger of Murphy India Ltd. with CEAT Ltd., after which 45 workmen were appointed on a temporary basis on 1‑Feb‑1991 and placed on probation. A Memorandum of Settlement dated 29‑Apr‑1991 provided benefits to "permanent workmen" on the rolls as of 31‑Dec‑1990. The workmen …
Halwasiya Vidya Vihar, a senior secondary school, was originally contributing to a state‑run contributory provident fund scheme. After affiliating to the CBSE, it was directed by the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner to adopt the Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 …
The case concerned whether the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board could alter pension benefits of its employees without formally amending the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board Liberalised Pension Regulations, 1960. The Board had relied on a settlement clause to bypass the 15‑day notice under Section 9A of the …
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 …
Workmen who retired from T.I. Cycles of India claimed that incentive wages paid for extra work should be treated as "wages" under Section 2(s) of the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 and thus be included in the calculation of gratuity under Section 4(2). The Controlling Authority and the Madras High …
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 …
The appellant, Noor Niwas Nursery Public School, argued that it was a separate establishment with only four employees and therefore exempt from the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. The respondent, Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, contended that the nursery and …
The Regional Provident Fund Commissioner issued a notice under Section 7B of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 to Shillong City Bus Syndicate for failure to pay EPF contributions for Jan‑Sept 1972. The syndicate contended that the Act did not apply to the Khasi …
MIS K. TROLLING MILLS Pvt. Ltd. failed to deposit Employees' Provident Fund contributions for the period July 1968 to October 1977. The Regional Provident Fund Commissioner initiated proceedings in 1985 and, under Section 14‑B of the EPF Act, levied damages of Rs. 52,034.80. The Bombay High Court …
The case concerned the validity of the Employees' Family Pension Scheme introduced under Section 6‑A of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, which automatically enrolled employees who joined the EPF after 1 March 1971 but gave earlier members an option to opt‑out. …
The appellant, a director of Ideal Jawa (India) Ltd., was charged under Section 14A of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 for failing to deposit EPF contributions for October‑December 1990. He contended that, as merely a director and not the occupier or manager, he …
The Supreme Court examined whether arrears of wages payable to workmen as a result of an award under the Industrial Disputes Act, which revised pay‑scales retrospectively to 1 April 1980, fall within the definition of “basic wages” under Section 2(b) of the Employees’ Provident Funds and …
The appellants, former directors of a jute mill company, sought relief under Section 633 of the Companies Act, 1956 to be exempted from liability for delayed and non‑payment of Employees' Provident Fund dues. The Calcutta High Court had allowed a consent order permitting instalment payment and …
The District Exhibitors Association and other cinema theatre owners challenged a 30 April 1986 Government Notification that retrospectively extended the Employees' Provident Funds Scheme to cinema theatres employing five or more workers from 1 October 1984. They argued that the Notification was …
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 …
The petitioners, former temporary employees of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) who were absorbed into the statutory body after the ONGC Act, 1959, claimed a right to a pension in addition to the benefits of the Contributory Provident Fund (CPF). They relied on Section 13(1) of the ONGC Act …
Ess Dee Carpet Enterprises, a partnership engaged in manufacturing and selling carpets in Rajasthan, challenged the applicability of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, on the ground that carpets were not "textiles" under Schedule I of the Act. The Regional …
The Food Corporation of India (FCI) was directed by the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) Commissioner to deposit contributions for workers employed by contractors at its depots in Rajasthan. FCI contended that it was denied a reasonable opportunity to produce evidence identifying those workers …
Cemindia Co. Ltd., an engineering contractor engaged in the building and construction industry, operated a workshop solely for repairing its own equipment. Under the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, and Notification No. GSR 1398, the Regional Provident Fund …
The Osmania University’s Department of Publications and Press operates printing presses employing about 100 workers. The university challenged the applicability of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 to its employees, arguing that the department did not constitute a "factory". The Supreme Court …
The petitioners, beedi manufacturers, challenged the 1977 notifications that brought the beedi industry within Schedule I of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, arguing that home workers who roll beedis at their residences were not "employees" under section 2(f) …
Hirji Mills Ltd., a textile factory, was wound up and its assets were sold to Sayaji Mills Ltd. The factory remained idle from December 1954 until November 12, 1955, when Sayaji Mills restarted operations, invested fresh capital, renovated machinery and re‑employed about 70% of the former workers. …
The Karnataka Government referred a dispute between the Regional Provident Fund Organisation (established under the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952) and its employees to an Industrial Tribunal under section 10 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. The management …
The petitioner, Katheeja Bai, widow of a retired Tamil Nadu Electricity Board employee, claimed that the Board had failed to credit the special contribution mandated by Regulation 37 of the Board’s Contributory Provident Fund Regulations to her late husband’s provident fund account. The Board …
The petition, filed by a social welfare organisation, alleged that thousands of migrant workers in stone quarries and crushers in Faridabad were subjected to inhuman conditions, forced labour and bondage, violating their fundamental rights under Articles 21 and 23 of the Constitution. The Court …
