DHOOT DEVELOPERS PVT LTD Vs. B. K. VERMA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This Contempt petition has been filed for initiating contempt proceedings against the respondents alleging wilful disobedience of order dated 20.03.2020 passed in CWP No.6988-2020.

(2.) The petitioner Dhoot Developers Pvt. Ltd. is a Company. Respondent No.1 is Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner, Bathinda.

(3.) The Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner (authorised officer under Section 7-A of the Employees' Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952) (for short 'the 1952 Act') had passed an order, whereby, the petitioner had been directed to deposit an amount of Rs.64,74,734/- on receipt of the said order. The petitioner preferred a statutory appeal under Section 7(1) of the 1952 Act before the Central Government Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court (CGIT), New Delhi. Vide order dated 01.12.2017, his appeal/complaint was forwarded by the CGIT, New Delhi to CGIT-I, Chandigarh as the matter fell under the jurisdiction of the said Division.