SATYANARAYAN KAUNTIA Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) AS the issue involved in all these 35 writ applications is the same and similar and the parties are also same, all these matters were heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.

(2.) THROUGH these writ applications, the petitioners have invoked extraordinary jurisdiction of this Court as enshrined under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for quashing the entire criminal proceedings of all the complaint cases mentioned above including the order dated 26-3-2009 whereby and where under cognizance of the offences under Sections 14(2), 14A and 14AA of the Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act') has been taken by learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamshedpur against the petitioners in all the complaint cases whereof allegations are the same but the period of alleged contravention is different.

(3.) BEING aggrieved with the order taking cognizance in each of those cases, the petitioners have preferred the aforesaid applications.