Municipal Council Pusad, Thr. Chief Officer, Yavatmal v. Assistant Provident Fund, Commissioner, Akola and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court Nagpur Bench; Writ Petition No.7975 of 2025; Municipal Council Pusad through Chief Officer, Yavatmal vs Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner & Anr.; Coram: Prafulla S. Khubalkar, J.; order dated 16th December 2025; interim order dated 12.12.2025 restraining coercive action; freezing/freezed of all 24 bank accounts of Municipal Council; inability to pay salaries and routine working expenses; permission to operate 10 bank accounts till next date; list to respondent No.2 within two days; Annexure P-19 pages 137-139; time for affidavit-in-reply to Amit Prasad for respondents; M.I. Dhatrak for petitioner; petition listed 09.01.2026.
What did the court decide?
Interim order modified: petitioner permitted to operate 10 of its 24 freezed bank accounts till the next date, upon supplying the list of those 10 accounts to respondent No.2 within two days (accounts as per list at Annexure P-19, pages 137-139); respondents permitted to file affidavit-in-reply on or before the next date; petition listed on 09.01.2026 for further consideration. Petition itself remains pending.