M/S Parthivi College of Engg. and Management v. Central Board of Trustees (Epf)
Case brief
What is this about?
EPF challenge dismissed as infructuous: Parthivi College of Engineering and Management v. Central Board of Trustees (EPF) and Recovery Officer, EPFO Regional Office, Raipur; WPL No. 81 of 2023; Chhattisgarh High Court, Bilaspur; Justice Rakesh Mohan Pandey; petitioner's counsel Shishir Dixit; respondents unrepresented; impugned orders dated 31.03.2023 (Diary No. 2482/2018) and 19.4.2023; decided 20/04/2026; NAFR; 2026:CGHC:17849; no merits decided, no ratio on EPF recovery/enforcement; cite only for procedural proposition that a petition conceded to be infructuous by efflux of time will be dismissed on counsel's statement.
What did the court decide?
Petition dismissed as infructuous, recording the statement of counsel for the petitioner that by efflux of time it had become infructuous; no adjudication on the merits of the challenge to the impugned EPF orders.