Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 457 · Decided 2 July 2014
Mcleod Russel India Limited v. REG. Provident Fund Commissioner, Jalpaiguri
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 457 · [2014] 9 S.C.R. 162
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5927/2014
- Decided
- 2 July 2014
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, VIKRAMAJIT SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC
Headnote
EMPLOYEES' PROVIDENT FUND AND C MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT, 1952: ss. 14-8, 178 rlw ss. 7 A and 2(e) - Default by employer in payment of contribution - Damages - Liability in case of transfer of establishment - Held: The Act is a beneficent D legislation and any of its provisions should be abjured - Imposition of punitive damages can be resorted to even in civil proceedings to deter wilful wrongdoing by making an admonished example of the wrongdoer - This is the essential purpose of s. 148, and an E imposition within its confines does not assume
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