S. S. Sandhawalia, C. J.-These two connected writ petitions bring into the limelight a sad spectacle of a State Corporation flagrantly and glaringly violating the beneficent statutory provisions of the Employees' Provident' Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act; 1952 to the grave detriment of its own employees.

2. The facts which are hardly in dispute may be noticed from C.W.J.C. No. 1710 of 1984 Rajkiya Nalkup Karamchari Sangh v. The Bihar State Water Development Corporation Ltd. and others. Admittedly, the Bihar State Water Development Corporation Ltd. (hereinafter to be referred to as the 'Corporation') has been constituted as private limited company in pursuance of the Government resolution no. l216 dated the 31st of March, 1973 and further provision for its smooth function has been made by the ORDER :' of the State Government dated the 28th of February, 1974 (annexure 1). The respondent Corporation employed as many as 10,000 workers and has territorially divided its operations in two parts under two Chief Engineers, designated as Chief Engineer, South, and Chief Engineer North, and these zones are further divided into circles and divisions. The petitioner-Rajkiya Nal