{"id":267918,"date":"2011-08-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bank-vs-assistant-on-3-august-2011"},"modified":"2016-07-18T22:52:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T17:22:31","slug":"bank-vs-assistant-on-3-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bank-vs-assistant-on-3-august-2011","title":{"rendered":"Bank vs Assistant on 3 August, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Bank vs Assistant on 3 August, 2011<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Ravi R.Tripathi,<\/div>\n<pre id=\"pre_1\">  \n Gujarat High Court Case Information System \n    \n  \n    \n\n \n \n    \t      \n         \n\t    \n\t\t   Print\n\t\t\t\t          \n\n  \n\n\n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\n\n\n \n\n\n\t \n\nSCA\/10063\/2011\t 2\/ 2\tORDER \n \n \n\n\t\n\n \n\nIN\nTHE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\nSPECIAL\nCIVIL APPLICATION No. 10063 of\n2011 \n=========================================================\n\n \n\nBANK\nOF BARODA - Petitioner(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nASSISTANT\nPROVIDENT FUND COMMISSIONER &amp; RECOVERY OFFICER - Respondent(s)\n \n\n=========================================================\n \nAppearance\n: \nMS\nNALINI S LODHA for\nPetitioner(s) : 1, \nNone for Respondent(s) :\n1, \n=========================================================\n\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nCORAM\n\t\t\t: \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE RAVI R.TRIPATHI\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\nDate\n: 03\/08\/2011 \n\n \n\nORAL\nORDER<\/pre>\n<p id=\"p_1\">1.\t\tHeard learned Sr.<br \/>\nAdvocate, Mr. Mihir Joshi with learned Advocate, Ms. Nalini Lodha,<br \/>\nfor the petitioner-Bank of Baroda.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">2.\t\tLearned Advocate<br \/>\ninvited attention of this Court to Page-16, a communication dated<br \/>\n07.01.2011, wherein the relevant part reads as under:\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\">&#8220;&#8230; Failing which<br \/>\nfurther recovery actions will be initiated against the Bank, as in<br \/>\nterms of the provisions of section 2(e) of the EPT &amp; MP Act,<br \/>\n1952, at the moment the Bank took possession of the assets of the<br \/>\nestablishment, it became an &#8220;Occupier&#8221; of the<br \/>\nestablishment, And being an occupier of the establishment, the Bank<br \/>\nwill be treated as an employer in default and further recovery<br \/>\nactions will be initiated against it without further notice.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_3\">3.\t\tIt<br \/>\nis not in dispute that the P.F. Dues sought for are for the period<br \/>\ncommencing from March, 1998 to September, 2004.  The learned Advocate<br \/>\nfor the respondent-P.F. Authority is directed to file an affidavit,<br \/>\nexplaining as to why these dues are sought to be recovered in 2010-11<br \/>\nand what was done between the period i.e. right from March, 1998 till<br \/>\nthe impugned communications issued.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_4\">\t\tAffidavit<br \/>\nwill be FILED before the NEXT DATE of<br \/>\nhearing.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_5\">4.\t\tThe<br \/>\nmatter requires consideration.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_6\">\t\tRULE,<br \/>\nreturnable on 23RD<br \/>\nAUGUST, 2011. Ms. Vasavdatta Bhatt, learned Advocate waives<br \/>\nservice of rule for the respondent-P.F. Authority.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_7\">5.\t\tINTERIM<br \/>\nRELIEF in terms of Para-8B &amp; 8C.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_8\">6.\t\tA<br \/>\ncopy of this order be made available to the learned Advocate, Ms.<br \/>\nBhatt, for the respondent-P.F. Authority, for compliance.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_9\">(RAVI<br \/>\nR.TRIPATHI,J.)<\/p>\n<p>Umesh\/<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court Bank vs Assistant on 3 August, 2011 Author: Ravi R.Tripathi, Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print SCA\/10063\/2011 2\/ 2 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 10063 of 2011 ========================================================= BANK OF BARODA &#8211; Petitioner(s) Versus ASSISTANT PROVIDENT FUND COMMISSIONER &amp; RECOVERY OFFICER &#8211; Respondent(s) [&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":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gujarat-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bank vs Assistant on 3 August, 2011 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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