V.K.JAIN, J. (Oral) The petitioner before this Court was awarded a contract to provide security services in Shri Dada Dev Matri Avum Shishu Chiktsalaya, Dabri, New Delhi – 110045, for a period of one year with effect from 2.9.2011 to 1.9.2012. The petitioner, however, continued to provide services even thereafter. The case of the petitioner is that it has not been paid for the security services provided by it in terms of the aforesaid contract.

2. Vide notice dated 4.8.2012, the respondents, referring to their earlier letter dated 17.10.2011, directed the petitioner to submit the valid EPF/ESIC certificate, list of persons deployed, along with copies of their educational certificates, police verification report and medical examination report, etc and to make the payment of prescribed minimum wages to the workers through ECS or by cheque and deposit the ESI/PF and service tax etc. In the aforesaid notice, the respondents, inter alia, observed as under:

(i) in spite of the lapse of a long period, the petitioner had failed to submit the requisite document/ information;

(ii) neither the firm is making full payment or minimum prescribed wages nor providing the statutor