{"id":130491,"date":"2009-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mercy-hospital-vs-union-of-india-on-24-november-2009"},"modified":"2016-04-06T00:23:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T18:53:13","slug":"mercy-hospital-vs-union-of-india-on-24-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mercy-hospital-vs-union-of-india-on-24-november-2009","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Hospital vs Union Of India on 24 November, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kerala High Court<\/div>\n
Mercy Hospital vs Union Of India on 24 November, 2009<\/div>\n
       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nOP.No. 20548 of 1998(U)\n\n\n\n1. MERCY HOSPITAL\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n1. UNION OF INDIA\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.C.P.MOHAMMED NIAS\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.MATHEWS J.NEDUMPARA, SC,P.F.ORGSN.\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice S.SIRI JAGAN\n\n Dated :24\/11\/2009\n\n O R D E R\n                              S. Siri Jagan, J.\n                =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\n                        O.P. No. 20548 of 1998\n                =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\n                 Dated this, the 24th November, 2009.\n\n                             J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n
       A hospital, which has been directed to be covered under the<\/p>\n
Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act and its<\/p>\n
managing partner, have come up with this original petition<\/p>\n
challenging Ext. P1 order      of coverage and Ext. P2 order of the<\/p>\n
Appellate Tribunal confirming Ext. P1.\n<\/p>\n
       2. When notice of proceedings for coverage was received from<\/p>\n
the 2nd respondent, the managing partner objected to the same on the<\/p>\n
ground that the hospital does not employ 20 or more persons so as to<\/p>\n
be liable to be covered under the Act. Therefore, proceedings under<\/p>\n
Section 7A was initiated, which led to Ext. P1 order. Ext. P1 order is<\/p>\n
solely based on a list of employees signed by the working partner of<\/p>\n
the hospital, wherein the names of 22 employees have been shown. In<\/p>\n
the 7A proceedings , that working partner gave evidence to the effect<\/p>\n
that the list included the names of employees of a scan center and a<\/p>\n
telephone booth working in the same premises. According to the<\/p>\n
working partner, he mistakenly gave the names of the employees of<\/p>\n
the scan center and the telephone booth also. He submits that he has<\/p>\n
very serious problems of eye sight and he is almost blind. However,<\/p>\n
the 2nd respondent did not accept the evidence of the working partner<\/p>\n
and relied upon the very same list signed by the working partner,<\/p>\n
which he later retracted from, to pass Ext. P1 order. The appeal filed<\/p>\n
by the petitioner was rejected by Ext. P2 order again relying on the<\/p>\n
very same list of employees. The petitioner is challenging Exts.P1 and<\/p>\n
P2 orders.\n<\/p>\n
       3.  The contention of the petitioners is that the hospital never<\/p>\n
employed 20 or more persons at any time and therefore is not liable to<\/p>\n
be covered under the Act. They submit that apart from the retracted<\/p>\n
list signed by the working partner, who was almost blind, there was<\/p>\n
O.P.. No. 20548\/1998              -: 2 :-<\/span><\/p>\n
absolutely no evidence whatsoever available to the 2nd respondent to<\/p>\n
come to the conclusion that the hospital employed 20 or more persons<\/p>\n
at any time.     The petitioners would submit that the orders based on<\/p>\n
such totally inadequate material cannot be sustained.<\/p>\n
       4.   With the help of a counter affidavit, the 2nd respondent<\/p>\n
opposes the prayers in the original petition. According to him, the<\/p>\n
working partner was subjected to cross examination while giving<\/p>\n
evidence and serious discrepancies were noted in his evidence and<\/p>\n
therefore he was disbelieved. He would submit that insofar as the<\/p>\n
working partner himself gave l names of 22 persons as employees of<\/p>\n
the hospital, there is absolutely no reason why the same should not<\/p>\n
be adopted as the basis for covering the establishment under the Act.<\/p>\n
He would therefore argue for sustaining the impugned orders.<\/p>\n
       5. I have considered the rival contentions in detail.<\/p>\n
       6. I am surprised that no serious attempt was made by the 2nd<\/p>\n
respondent to bring in sufficient evidence to prove their case when<\/p>\n
the managing partner, who gave the list, which is the sole basis of the<\/p>\n
decision, retracted from the same.       The enforcement officer who<\/p>\n
visited the hospital could very well have interviewed the employees<\/p>\n
whose names were given by the working partner and ascertained<\/p>\n
directly from them as to whether they are employees of the hospital.<\/p>\n
Not even an attempt was made by the 2nd respondent to ascertain and<\/p>\n
place before this Court as to the size of the hospital. Not even the<\/p>\n
number of the beds in the hospital has been brought on record. The<\/p>\n
facilities in the hospital have not been attempted to be brought on<\/p>\n
record. They are solely relying on a list prepared on the instruction of<\/p>\n
a working partner, who admittedly had very serious eye sight<\/p>\n
problems. The 2nd respondent cannot even tell me in whose hand<\/p>\n
writing Ext. P4 has been prepared. He has not been able to tell me<\/p>\n
whether it was in the handwriting of the working partner. The 2nd<\/p>\n
O.P.. No. 20548\/1998              -: 3 :-<\/span><\/p>\n
respondent has not made any attempt to ascertain who owns the scan<\/p>\n
center and the telephone booth working in the same premises. When<\/p>\n
the petitioner claimed that the scan center and the telephone booth<\/p>\n
are unconnected with the hospital and Ext. P4 contains the names of<\/p>\n
employees of the scan center and the telephone booth also, the 2nd<\/p>\n
respondent had a duty to verify the correctness of that statement and<\/p>\n
bring on record sufficient evidence in support of the conclusion that<\/p>\n
the establishment employed 20 or more persons instead of simply<\/p>\n
relying on a list prepared at the instance of a blind man, which was<\/p>\n
retracted by him on oath before the 2nd respondent while giving<\/p>\n
evidence. The 2nd respondent has no case that there is any indication<\/p>\n
in the records of the hospital to the effect that the number of<\/p>\n
employees in the hospital is 20 and above. Therefore, I am of opinion<\/p>\n
that on such flimsy evidence, the 2nd respondent could not have come<\/p>\n
to the conclusion that      the establishment employed 20 or more<\/p>\n
persons.\n<\/p>\n
         In view of the above findings,          Exts.P1 and P2 are<\/p>\n
unsustainable. Accordingly, they are quashed. However, it would be<\/p>\n
open to the 2nd respondent to re-consider the matter and pass fresh<\/p>\n
orders, after bringing in sufficient evidence to show that the<\/p>\n
establishment had    actually employed 20 or more persons at the<\/p>\n
relevant time.\n<\/p>\n
      The original petition is disposed of as above.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
                                         Sd\/- S. Siri Jagan, Judge.\n<\/p>\n
Tds\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kerala High Court Mercy Hospital vs Union Of India on 24 November, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM OP.No. 20548 of 1998(U) 1. MERCY HOSPITAL … Petitioner Vs 1. UNION OF INDIA … Respondent For Petitioner :SRI.C.P.MOHAMMED NIAS For Respondent :SRI.MATHEWS J.NEDUMPARA, SC,P.F.ORGSN. The Hon’ble MR. 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