Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 558 · Decided 14 December 1999
Regional Provident Fund Commissioner v. Shiv Kumar Joshi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 558 · [1999] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 294
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 411/1997
- Decided
- 14 December 1999
- Bench
- S. SAGHIR AHMAD, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution; Consumer Protection Act Section 2(1)(d), 2(l)(d)
Headnote
Consumer Protection Act: 1986-Section 2(J)(o) & 2 (1) (d)-Provident Fund Scheme, 1952-App/icability of the Act-On Provident Fund C Commissioner-Held, applicable because the scheme is a service within meaning of Section 2(J)(o), and the employee! the member of the scheme is a consumer within of the scheme includes administrative charges-Plea that employee/member of the scheme not 'consumer' within the meaning of Section 2(l)(d) since administrative charges are not paid by D employee and that the appellant being Central Government cannot be said to be rendering service within
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