The Managing Director, the Mdu v. the Recovery Officer
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: writ petition dismissed as infructuous; Madurai Bench of Madras High Court; W.P.(MD) No.25302 of 2018; W.M.P.(MD) No.22914 of 2018 closed; Justice Mummineni Sudheer Kumar; decision date 17.02.2025; petitioner - Madurai Virudhunagar Dindigul Districts Palmyrah Jaggery Marketing Co-operative Marketing Federation Ltd.; respondent - Recovery Officer, Employees Provident Fund Organisation, Madurai; Article 226 certiorarified mandamus; quashing of EPF recovery order TN/MDU/29442/RECY/CP16/2017 dated 08.03.2017; proclamation of sale dated 08.11.2018 (MD/MDU/29442/Recy/CP13/2018); offered payment of Rs.12,60,732/- EPF arrears for March 2011-July 2017 within six months; no costs; no precedent cited or applied.
What did the court decide?
Since learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the relief sought in the writ petition had become infructuous and made an endorsement to that effect in the Court bundle, the Court dismissed the writ petition as infructuous.