{"id":61108,"date":"2009-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/employees-provident-fund-vs-ms-sportking-india-limited-and-on-10-december-2009"},"modified":"2017-12-19T18:03:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T12:33:47","slug":"employees-provident-fund-vs-ms-sportking-india-limited-and-on-10-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/employees-provident-fund-vs-ms-sportking-india-limited-and-on-10-december-2009","title":{"rendered":"Employees&#8217; Provident Fund &#8230; vs M\/S Sportking India Limited And &#8230; on 10 December, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Employees&#8217; Provident Fund &#8230; vs M\/S Sportking India Limited And &#8230; on 10 December, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>     IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n                       CHANDIGARH\n\n                                Civil Writ Petition No.14718 of 2006\n                                Date of decision:10.12.2009\n\nEmployees' Provident Fund Organisation                    ....Petitioner\n\n\n                               versus\n\n\nM\/s Sportking India Limited and another                   ...Respondents\n\n\n\nCORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN\n                               ----\n\nPresent:     Mr. Kamal Sehgal, Advocate, for the petitioner.\n\n             Mr. V.G.Dogra, Advocate, for respondent No.1.\n                             ----\n\n1.     Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the\n       judgment ?\n2.     To be referred to the reporters or not ?\n3.     Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ?\n                                 ----\n\nK.Kannan, J. (Oral)\n<\/pre>\n<p>             For detailed orders see Civil Writ Petition No.14655 of 2006<\/p>\n<p>of even date.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                        (K.KANNAN)<br \/>\n10.12.2009                                                 JUDGE<br \/>\nsanjeev\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Employees&#8217; Provident Fund &#8230; vs M\/S Sportking India Limited And &#8230; on 10 December, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.14718 of 2006 Date of decision:10.12.2009 Employees&#8217; Provident Fund Organisation &#8230;.Petitioner versus M\/s Sportking India Limited and another &#8230;Respondents CORAM: HON&#8217;BLE MR. JUSTICE K. 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