JUDGMENT - CHAUDHARI M.G., J.:—The applicant, Mandovi Pellets Ltd. Workers' Union, through its General Secretary, has applied for permission to intervene in the Writ Petition filed by Mandovi Pellets Ltd. Company against the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, Goa, and the Union of India. The petitioners are the employers and the applicant is the Union of Workers. The workers represented by the Union are the employees.

2. The Regional Provident Fund Commissioner (respondent No. 1), passed an order on 25th June, 1992, under section 7-A of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (hereafter referred to as “the Act”) applying the provisions of the Act to the petitioners' establishment which manufactures iron ore pellets at their factory at Shiroda, Goa. The Commissioner has acted upon the Notification No. GSR 346 dated 7th March, 1962, issued by the Central Government. The said order has been challenged by the petitioners in the writ petition. According to them, they are not covered by the provisions of the Act. They prayed for quashing of the order of the Provident Fund Commissioner and meanwhile prayed for interim stay of operation of that order. Rule a

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