JUDGMENT The petitioner suffered orders under Section 7Q and Section

14B of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (in short ‘the 1952 Act’). Both these orders are on record as Ext.P2 in the writ petition. The petitioner has preferred appeals against both these orders and those appeals are stated to be pending before the Central Government Industrial Tribunal cum Labour Court, Ernakulam (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Tribunal’). In the meanwhile, recovery proceedings were initiated to recover the amounts due under the orders referred to above, prompting the petitioner to approach this Court by filing the above writ petition.

2. The learned counsel appearing for the Provident Fund Department would submit that no appeal lies against an order demanding interest under Section 7Q of the 1952 Act. It is submitted that in so far as the order imposing damages under Section 14B of the 1952 Act is concerned, an appeal can be maintain