JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to issue a Writ of Certiorari, to call for the records pertaining to the impugned order dated 23.07.2010 of the first respondent Employees'' Providence Fund Appellate Tribunal passed in A.T.A.No.174(13) 2003 and quash the said order by issue of a Writ of Certiorari.)

Common Order:

These Writ Petitions have been filed challenging the order passed by the first respondent dated 23.07.2010, thereby dismissing the appeal filed by the petitioners as against the order passed by the third respondent under Section 7(A) of the Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, thereby directing the petitioners societies to comply with the provisions of the Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act (herein after referred to as “the EPF & MP Act”).

2. The petitioner in all the writ petitions (herein after called as “the petitioner/society”) is a society registered under the Tamil Nadu Co- operative Societies Act. The members of the petitioner/society are the handloom weavers residing at the place where the society is situated. They are the shareholders of the petitioner/society. The