JUDGMENT :

(Rekha Palli, J.) :—

CM APPL. 18305/2023

1. Exemption allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

2. The application stands disposed of.

W.P. (C) 4740/2023 & CM APPL. 18306/2023 (stay)

3. The petitioner, who was the appellant before the learned Central Government Industrial Tribunal in an appeal bearing No. D2/36/2022, has approached this Court seeking to assail the order dated 16.02.2023 passed by the learned Tribunal. Vide the impugned order, the learned Tribunal has rejected the petitioner's appeal under section 7‘I’ of Employees' Provident Funds Act and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 on the sole ground that the petitioner had failed to deposit the amount as per directions issued by the learned Tribunal on 20.12.2022 within the time granted by the Tribunal i.e. by 01.02.2023.

4. The brief factual matrix as necessary for adjudication of the writ petition may be first noted. It is the common case of the parties that the petitioner herein preferred an appeal before the learned Tribunal under section 7 ‘I’ of the Employees' Provident Funds Act and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (the Act), assailing the orders dated 13.08.2020 and 12.08.2022 under section 7A and 7B of the A