THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SHARMA
W.P.(C) 7653/2014 and 23 other Writ Petitions tagged together
O R D E R
Learned counsel for the respondents submits that these writ petitions have been filed challenging the constitutionality of the amendments made in Employees’ Pension Scheme, 2014.
Learned counsel submits that in the identical matter, the Supreme Court has reserved the order on 11th August 2022.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
3
+ W.P.(C) 7653/2014
RAM MANORATH SHUKLA & ORS. ..... Petitioner
versus
SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF LABOUR & ORS. ..... Respondents
6
+ W.P.(C) 548/2020
MUKUL GAUTAM AND ORS. ..... Petitioners
versus
EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION AND ORS
..... Respondent
11
+ W.P.(C) 6974/2022
DHEER PAL SINGH ..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS ..... Respondents
12
+ W.P.(C) 8999/2022
UMA SHANKAR BHARDWAJ ..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS ..... Respondent
13
+ W.P.(C) 7029/2022
DHARAM SINGH ..... Petitioner
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .... Respondents
14
+ W.P.(C) 8934/2022
B R DEOGHARE ..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND OTHER ..... Respondent
15
+ W.P.(C) 8987/2022
JAGBIR SINGH ..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND OTHER ..... Respondents
16
+ W.P.(C) 6526/2017
AJAY CHANDRA ..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANIZATION (EPFO) &
ORS. ..... Respondents
17
+ W.P.(C) 8312/2017
SHADEY LAL RAINA & ORS ..... Petitioners
versus
EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATIONS & ORS
..... Respondents
18
+ W.P.(C) 13758/2018
DEEPAK KANT AND ORS. ..... Petitioners
versus
EMPLOYEES' PROVIDENT FUND ORGANIZATION AND ORS.
..... Respondents
19
+ W.P.(C) 3730/2018
RADHAKRISHNAN NAGARAJAN AND ORS. ..... Petitioners
versus
EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION AND ORS.
..... Respondents
20
+ W.P.(C) 4139/2018
ALL INDIA ONGC EX-EMPLOYEES WELFARE ASSOCIATION
..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. ..... Respondents
21
+ W.P.(C) 5302/2018
PDIL PENSIONERS WELFARE ASSOCIATION THROUGH ITS
PRESIDENT ..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION AND ORS.
..... Respondents
22
+ W.P.(C) 8927/2018
U.P. SCIDCO RETIRED EMPLOYEE SAMITI ..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANIZATION (EPFO) &
ORS ..... Respondents
23
+ W.P.(C) 2669/2019
TCIL RETIRED EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION ..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION AND ORS.
..... Respondent
24
+ W.P.(C) 3645/2019, CM APPL. 19132/2022
MR. PANKAJ SRIVASTAVA ... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. ..... Respondents
25
+ W.P.(C) 4807/2019
KARAN SINGH GARBYAL ..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYEE PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION AND ORS.
..... Respondents
26
+ W.P.(C) 8937/2017
DINESH MOHAN SHARMA ..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA & ORS ..... Respondents
27
+ W.P.(C) 8989/2017
NARESH KUMAR SHARMA & ORS ..... Petitioners
versus
UNION OF INDIA & ORS ..... Respondents
28
+ W.P.(C) 8623/2017
SABYASACHI BANNERJEE ..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYMENT PROVIDENT FUND ORGANIZATION & ORS
..... Respondents
29
+ W.P.(C) 10564/2017
BRIJENDRA KUMAR SINHA ..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. ..... Respondents
30
+ W.P.(C) 10985/2017
CHANDURI SURYA SUBRAHMANYA SARMA AND ORS
..... Petitioners
versus
EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION AND ORS
..... Respondent
31
+ W.P.(C) 11400/2017, CM APPL. 2711/2020
UDAI SINGH SISODIA AND ORS.
..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYEE PROVIDENT FUND ORGINISATION (EPFO) AND
ORS. ..... Respondents
32
+ W.P.(C) 9650/2017
JAI PRAKASH SRIVASTAVA & ORS ..... Petitioners
versus
UNION OF INDIA & ORS ..... Respondents
33
+ W.P.(C) 1089/2018
ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM PENSIONERS ..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA & ORS ..... Respondents
34
+ W.P.(C) 11896/2018
RATIKANTA SAMANTA RAY ..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYEE PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION AND ORS.
..... Respondents
35
+ W.P.(C) 1268/2018
ALOK SINHA AND ORS. ..... Petitioners
versus
EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANIZATION AND ORS.
..... Respondent
36
+ W.P.(C) 1298/2018
RITA GOYAL AND ORS. ..... Petitioners
versus
EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANIZATION AND ORS.
..... Respondents
37
+ W.P.(C) 10735/2019, CM APPL. 44391/2019
ALL INDIA NHPC WORKERS AND EMPLOYEES FEDERATION
..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.
38
+ W.P.(C) 11139/2019
RAKESH KUMAR KHANNA ..... Petitioner
versus
REGIONAL PROVIDENT FUND COMMISSIONER & ANR
..... Respondents
39
+ W.P.(C) 7095/2019
PRADIP RAMKRISHNARAO DAHAKE ..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYEE PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION AND ORS.
..... Respondents
40
+ W.P.(C) 563/2019
VINOD ZUTSHI AND ORS. ..... Petitioners
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. .... Respondents
41
+ W.P.(C) 3142/2019
JAYANTA KUMAR CHAKRAVORTY ..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYEES PROVINDENT FUND ORGANISATION AND
ORS. ..... Respondents
42
+ W.P.(C) 3179/2019
NBCC RETIRED EMPLOYEES WELFARE ASSOCIATION
(REGD) ..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA & ORS ..... Respondents
43
+ W.P.(C) 9162/2019 & CM APPL. 10120/2020
AMRISH KUMAR AND ORS. ..... Petitioners
versus
REGIONAL COMMISSIONER EMPLOYEE PROVIDENT FUND
ORGANISATION AND ANR. ..... Respondents
44
+ W.P.(C) 13156/2019, CM APPLs. 22878-79/2021
RAJ KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYEES PROVINDENT FUND ORGANIZATION (EPFO)
AND ORS. ..... Respondents
45
+ W.P.(C) 423/2020, CM APPL. 1153/2020
SYED ZAFARULLAH HUSSAINI AND ORS. ..... Petitioners
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. ..... Respondents
46
+ W.P.(C) 7092/2020
SANJEEV KUMAR SRIVASTAVA AND ORS. ..... Petitioners
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ..... Respondents
47
+ W.P.(C) 9593/2020
TELECOM PENSIONERS WELFARE ASSOCATION THROUGH
ITS GSN SCRETARYE ..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA THROUGH ITS SECRETARY & ORS.
..... Respondents
48
+ W.P.(C) 3285/2021
PRABIR KUMAR DUTTA ..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYEE PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION & ORS.
..... Respondents
49
+ W.P.(C) 11175/2022, CM APPL. 32837/2022
BRAJENDRA SINGH ..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND OTHER ..... Respondent
50
+ W.P.(C) 4504/2021
CONCOR EMPLOYEES CPF TRUST ..... Petitioner
versus
EMPLOYEES PRODENT FUND ORGANIZATION AND ANR.
..... Respondents
51
+ W.P.(C) 6881/2021, CM APPL. 38432/2021
TELECOM EMPLOYEES WELFARE ASSOCIATION.... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. ..... Respondents
64
+ W.P.(C) 12787/2022, CM APPL. 38907/2022EXEMPTION, CM
APPL. 38908/2022PERMISSION TO FILE A LENGTHY LIST OF
DATES
SUBHASH CHANDER PANWAR ..... Petitioner
versus
UNION OF INDIA AND OTHER ..... Respondent
Present:
For petitioner:-
Mr.Gaurav Malik, Adv. for petitioner in item no.29.
Ms.Monika Aroraand Mr. Yash Tyagi, Advs. in item- 24.
Mr.H.D.Tanvi, Mr.Nikil Kumar Singh, Mr.Achal Singh and
Mr.Mahendra Singh in item no.27.
Mr. Ranjeet Pandey, Adv. for petitioner in item No.51
Ms. Mahamaya Chatterjee, Adv. for Petitioner in item 41.
Mr. C. M. Sundaram Iyer, Advocate for petitioners in W. p. (c)
Nos. 1089/2018, W. p. (c) no. 4139/2018 and W. p. (c) no.
7092/2020
Mr. Deepak Tyagi, Adv. for petitioner in item No.47.
Mr.Vishweshwar Mishra and Ms.Surabhi Bhaskar, Advocates
for petitioner in item no.17.
Mr.Vibhor Verdhan, Mr.Zaid Raza, Mr.Rahul Mishra and
Ms.Sebhasan, Adv. for the petitioners in items no.11 to 15, 49,
64.
Mr.Rajesh Gupta, Mr.Harpreet Singh, Mr.Ajay Chandra and
Mr.Sumit, Advocates for petitioners in items No.6, 16, 19, 21,
22, 30 & 44.
Mr. Rishi K Awasthi, adv; Mr. Piyush Vatsa, advs for
Petitioners in item Nos. 50.
Ms. Priyanka Das, Adv. in item No,. 33.
Mr. C.K. Bhatt, Adv in item No. 19.
For respondent:-
Ms.Inderjeet Sidhu, Advocate for respondent EPFO in items
no.23, 24, 25, 28, 31,34, 36, 37, 44 & 46.
Mr.Sidharth, standing counsel with Mr.Amit Kumar Agarwal,
Adv. for EPFO in item nos.3, 6, 1 to 16, 32, 38, 40, 42, 43, 45,
48 to 51, 64.
Mr. Gaurav Malik, Counsel for Respondent No. 3, NTPC in
item No. 29.
Mr. Nikhil Mundeja , Adv. for respondent in item Nos. 31 and
32.
Mr. Vivek Goyal, Advocate, CGSPC for UOI in item No. 26, 3 MR. Rahul Sharma, Central Government Counsel (Senior
panel) with Mr. C.K. Bhatt, Advocate for Respondent/ Union of
India in item No.13
Mr.Rajesh Kumar, standing counsel for EPFO with Mr.Harshit
Garg, Adv. in items no.17, 18, 28, 32, 19, 27, 29, 35, 39, 41,
47.
Mr. Vijay Joshi and Mr.Gurjas Singh Narula, Advs. for R-1 and
4 in item No. 64.
Mr. Satish Kumar, Adv. for R-5 in item No. 64
Mr. Sandeep Vishnu, Adv. for R-1 in WPC 8391/2018
Mr.Aman Bhalla, Adv. for R-5 in item 6.
Mr.Girish Chaudhary, Adv. for R-4 for NTPC in item no.6.
Mr.T.P.Singh, Sr.Central Govt. counsel for UOI with
Mr.Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Adv. in items 11, 12.
Mr.Ranvir Singh, CGSC with Mr.Vinod Tewari, GP for
respondent no.1 in item no.12.
Mr.Anurag Ahluwalia, CGSC with Mr.Danish Faraz Khan,
Adv. for R-1, R-3 & R-4 in item no.15.
Mr.R.K.Kapoor and Mr.Rajat Kapoor, Advts for respondents
no.18 to 25 in items no.18 & 35.
Mr.Vikram Jetly, CGSC with Ms.Shreya Jetly, Adv. for R-1 in
item no.20.
Mr. Jitesh Vikram Srivastava and Mr. Arajesh Vikram
Srivastava for Adv. in item No, 28.
Mr.Rakesh Sinha, Mr.Md.Gulam Akbar, Mr.Jeemon Raju and
Mr.Narendra Mohan and Mr.Rajesh, Advts. for R-3 & 4 in item
20.
Mr.Jitesh Vikram Srivastav, Sr.Panel Counsel for UOI with
Mr.R.M.Tripathi, GP in item no.21.
Mr.Sunil Kumar, Adv. in item no.25.
Mr.S.K.Das, adv. in item no.26.
Mr.Gulshan Chawla, Adv. for R-5 in item 27.
Mr.Nikhil Mundeja, Ms.Angeli Kora Dayal and Mr.Nirbhay
Narain Singh, Advts. for IOCL in item no.31 and 32.
Mr.Puneet Taneja and Ms.Laxmi Kumari, Advts. for NTPC ltd.
in item no.32.
Mr.Ruchir Mishra, Sr.Panel counsel with Mr.R.M.Tripathi, GP
and Mr.Mukesh Tiwari, Adv. for UOI in item no.37. Mr.Gudipati G.Kashyap and Ms.Srishti Aggarwal, Advts. for
NBCL in item no.40
Mr.Vinod Zutshi and Mr.S N Kaul for item no : 42 for NBCC
Retired Employees Association vs EPFO
Mr. K.P. Singh , Appearing for - Respondent No. 3
Mr. Judy james, Adv for EPFO in Items No(s )20, 21, 22, 26,
30 & 33
Mr. Adarsh Tripathi, Mr. Ajitesh Garg and Mr. Vikram S. Baid,
Advs. for NTPC.
Mr. Tanmoy Majumdar and Mr. Amit Tyagi, Advs. for R-3 &
4. In item No. 37
Mr. Sanjay Rawat, Adv. for R-3.NTPC in item No.39.
Mr. Harish Kumar Garg, Adv. for R-1 in Item No. 40.
Mr. KP Singh, Adv. for R-3, in item No. 41.
Mr.Amol Sharma, Ms. Jagriti Ahuja, Advs.R-3 and 4 in item
No. 45.
Mr. Siddharth Khatana, Sr. Standing counsel, R-1/UOI item
No. 46.
Mr. Sonia A. Menon, Mr. Ankit Kumar and Mr. Nishchint
Rawat, advs. for R-4 -5 in item No, 46
Mr. Rishabh Sahu, CGSC with Mr. Abhishek Khanna, G.P. and
Mr. Sameer Sharma,Adv. for R-1, 4 5 in item No. 49.
Mr. Saker Sikri and Mr. Arun Sanwal, Adv. for MTNL in item
No, 47 and 51.
Mr. Satish Kumar, Advocate for respondent No.5 in item
Nos.11 to 15 and 49
Mr. Rahul Sharma, CGSC with Mr. C.K. Bhatt and Mr. Ayush
Bhatt, Advocates for respondent Nos.1 and 4 in item No.13.
Ms. Archana Gaur, Advocate for UOI in item No.14.
Mr. Abhighyan Siddhant, G.P. for respondent Nos.1, 3 and 4 in
item 15.
Mr. Utsav Jain, Advocate for respondent Nos.4 and 5 in item
No.19.
Mr. Sandeep Prabhakar, Advocate for Mr. Vikas Mehta,
Advocate for respondent Nos.3 and 4 in item No.17.
Mr. Arvind Kumar Singh with Mr. Mahdenra Ram, Advocates
for respondent Nos.4 and 5 in Item No.21.
Mr. Rakesh Kumar, CGSC with Mr. Sunil, Advocate for UOI
in item Nos.22 and 31.
Mr. Ajay Digpaul, CGSC with Mr. Kamal Digpaul and Ms.
Swati Kwatra, Advocate for UOI in item No.24
Mr. Sunil Kumar, Advocate in item No.25.
Mr. S.K. Das, Advocate for Item No.26.
Mr. Bhagvan Swarup Shukla, CGSC for UOI in Item No.28.
Mr. Gulsahn Chawla, Advocate for respondent No.5 in Item
No.27.
Mr. Sanjeev Uniyal with Mr. Dhawal Uniyal, Advocate for
respondent No.1 in item No.28.
CORAM:
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SHARMA
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