Three Employee Provident Fund dues defaulters were arrested over three defaulting establishments in the last two months and have attached immovable properties in respect of two of the defaulting establishments.
The three have been identified as Rajesh Vig owner of Weltech India Pvt ltd, Rajbeer Singh Partner of New Jagran Enterprises, who was in service of the Delhi Police and Jyoti Singh Rawat, owner of Jyoti Sweets & Bakery Hari Nagar.
Robin Banerjee, the recovery officer told The Pioneer, “The defaulters were brought before me and they were kept in office custody since morning and confinement orders for sending them to civil prison were ready but in the evening their relatives arrived in EPF Office and deposited the entire dues, in case of Rs 2,85,367 from Weltech India, Rs 92,611 from Jyoti Sweets and of Rs 50,407 from New Jagran Enterprises were recovered.”
“In a major breakthrough the Office has recovered Rs 95 lakh in November 2016 from Centaur Hotel. The establishment promised to deposit the remaining Rs 65 lakh in December 2016,” he added.
Nidhi Singh, Regional PF Commissioner stated, “In case of another major defaulter, UNI, out of the total outstanding of Rs 3.81 crore, an amount of Rs 2.25 crore has been recovered by way of attachment of bank account of the establishment and prohibitory orders against the debtors. This establishment has been directed to liquidate the dues in three months, otherwise chairman and directors will have to face stringent action as provided in the EPF & MP Act, 1952 & the schemes framed there under. Also the properties of Hotel D Romana, Weltech & Vig lables have been attached where sizable amount of recovery is pending and arrest warrants against these employers have already been issued by the Recovery Officer.”
Moreover, the recovery officers have taken stringent actions against all defaulters and informed them to deposit the dues immediately to avoid arrest.