( 1 ) THESE two appeals are directed against the judgment of a learned Single Judge of this court who by a common judgment dismissed. the two petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, filed by the Appellants.

( 2 ) THE appellants have been running a factory since 1947. They manufacture wire-netting rolls, wire-netting, wire gauze, wire cloth and jaali , from G. 1. wires. By an order dated February 23, 1965 (Annexure A-l), the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner New Delhi, the first respondent, informed the appellants that on enquiries made by his department it has been revealed that their factory is an establishment to which the Employees Provident Fund Act, 1952, (hereinafter referred to as the Act) and the Scheme framed thereunder (hereinafter referred to as the Scheme) was attracted with effect from January, 1965. A code number allotted to the appellants establishment was communicated and they. were called upon to deposit the arrears of contribution from the date of coverage of the factory [ establishment under the Act and the Scheme at the rates provided in paragraph 29 of the Scheme in respect of all employees who are required and are elig