IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision : 13.11.2025 Punjab State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited (PUNSUP)

... Appellant Versus Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner and another ... Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANUPINDER SINGH GREWAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA Present:- Mr. Keshav Kataria, Advocate and Mr. Harshit Singh, Advocate for the appellant.

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Anupinder Singh Grewal, J. (Oral)

CM-8049-LPA-2025 &

CM-8048-LPA-2025

1. Prayer in these applications is for condonation of delay of 165 days in filing and 02 days in re-filing the appeal respectively.

2. Heard.

3. For the reasons stated in the applications, the same are allowed and delay of 165 days in filing and 02 days in re-filing the appeal is condoned.

LPA-3242-2025

1. The appellant has challenged the judgment of the Single Bench dated 11.03.2025 whereby the writ petition preferred by the appellant challenging the orders of the Controlling Authority and the Appellate Authority under the Payment of Gratuity Act, has been dismissed.

2. Learned counsel for the appellant submits that the delay in preferring the appeal before the Appellate Authority ought to have been condoned as sufficien