COMMON ORDER:

W.P. No.9745 of 1997 has been filed praying to issue a writ of certiorari, to call for the records and quash the order bearing Ref.TN/19904/SDC-2/97 dated 12.6.1997 on the file of the respondent.

2. W.P. No.9746 of 1997 has been filed praying to issue a writ of certiorarified mandamus, to call for the records and quash the order bearing Reference No.D 5/TN/MS/19904-A/REGL/95 dated 16.10.1995 on the file of the respondent and consequently direct the respondent to treat the petitioner as an independent establishment for the purpose of coverage under the Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act,1952.

3. Today, when the above matter was taken up for consideration, learned counsel for the petitioner would submit in respect of W.P. No.9745 of 1997 that the petitioner is the Company incorporated under the Indian Companies Act on 14.10.1988; that though the Company was incorporated on 14.10.88, the Company started functioning only from January, 1993; that in May, 1994, the Company recruited five employees and the staff strength started with five recruitment that in November, 1994, due to re-organisation in Shriram Group Companies, a few employees i