{"id":189933,"date":"2000-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-12-14T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/indian-drilling-and-mining-vs-regional-provident-fund-on-15-december-2000"},"modified":"2016-05-03T07:27:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T01:57:01","slug":"indian-drilling-and-mining-vs-regional-provident-fund-on-15-december-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/indian-drilling-and-mining-vs-regional-provident-fund-on-15-december-2000","title":{"rendered":"Indian Drilling And Mining &#8230; vs Regional Provident Fund &#8230; on 15 December, 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Calcutta High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Indian Drilling And Mining &#8230; vs Regional Provident Fund &#8230; on 15 December, 2000<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (2001) IILLJ 450 Cal<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: B Bhattacharya<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: B Bhattacharya<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p> Bhaskar Bhattacharya, J.  <\/p>\n<p>1. In this writ application, an employer has challenged an order dated September 20, 2000 passed by the Recovery Officer which is Annexure G to the instant writ application thereby demanding amount of interest and costs under the provision of Section 7-Q of the Employees&#8217; Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. in addition to the amount mentioned in the certificate.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The only question that falls for determination in this writ application is whether a Recovery Officer is vested with the authority under the aforesaid Act to impose interest on the amount mentioned in the certificate notwithstanding the fact that such interest has not been included in the certificate.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. Sri Nayak, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners submits that the position of a Recovery Officer under the aforesaid Act is exactly that of an executing Court and as such, unless the authority under Section 7-A of the Act has included the amount of interest in the certificate, the Recovery Officer cannot of his own add to the certificate any such amount. It appears from Section 8-B of the aforesaid Act that where the amount is in arrear under Section 8, the authorised officer may issue to the Recovery Officer a certificate under his signature specifying the amount of arrears and the Recovery Officer, on receipt of such certificate, shall proceed to recover the amount specified therein, from the establishment or, as the ease may be, the employer by one or more of the modes\/ method mentioned below.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. The aforesaid provision makes it clear that the Recovery Officer can recover only the amount specified in the certificate. The provision contained in Section 7-Q of the Act, merely, enables the authorised officer under Section 7-A of the Act to impose interest, but if such interest is not included in the certificate, it is beyond the competence of the Recovery Officer to demand such amount.\n<\/p>\n<p>5. I, thus, set aside the order impugned as the same is without jurisdiction. The writ application is thus allowed.\n<\/p>\n<p>6. No order as to costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>7. Let xerox certified copy of the order, if applied for, be supplied within a week from the date of application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcutta High Court Indian Drilling And Mining &#8230; vs Regional Provident Fund &#8230; on 15 December, 2000 Equivalent citations: (2001) IILLJ 450 Cal Author: B Bhattacharya Bench: B Bhattacharya JUDGMENT Bhaskar Bhattacharya, J. 1. In this writ application, an employer has challenged an order dated September 20, 2000 passed by the Recovery Officer which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calcutta-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Indian Drilling And Mining ... vs Regional Provident Fund ... on 15 December, 2000 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/indian-drilling-and-mining-vs-regional-provident-fund-on-15-december-2000\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indian Drilling And Mining ... vs Regional Provident Fund ... on 15 December, 2000 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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