1. Ext. P-3 is an order of the first respondent Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, Trivandrum by which he has treated the establishments of the petitioner and respondents 2 and 3 as inter-related composite units, liable to be clubbed together for the purpose of applying the provisions of the Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, XIX of 1952, (the Act). The case of the petitioner and of respondents 2 and 3 was that they were each employing only less than the number of persons, which will bring them within the coverage envisaged by S.1 (3) of the Act. The first respondent has, for the reasons stated by him, held that the three establishments are inter-related, liable to be clubbed together and therefore, liable to be covered by the Act as one establishment. Ext. P-3 is challenged on various grounds mentioned in the Original Petition. The question to be decided is whether the three establishments are separate and independent or whether they constitute units of the same establishment for purposes of the Act.

2. Counsel for the petitioner contended that there is no adequate alternate remedy available to the petitioner in law to challenge the proceedin