https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=283978 Long-standing interim orders prevented Employees' State Insurance contributions from being deducted or deposited for about 18 years, while the employer provided medical facilities directly and the workmen did not use ESI benefits. On these peculiar facts, the Court treated recovery of past contributions as causing grave hardship, especially because many workmen had already left service or retired and individual recovery would be impracticable. It viewed the direction to begin payment only from the date of judgment as an equitable adjustment rather than an impermissible postponement of enforcement, and upheld the High Court's approach denying past recovery. en-us Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:12:47 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=283978 Long-standing interim orders prevented Employees' State Insurance contributions from being deducted or deposited for about 18 years, while the employer provided medical facilities directly and the workmen did not use ESI benefits. On these peculiar facts, the Court treated recovery of past contributions as causing grave hardship, especially because many workmen had already left service or retired and individual recovery would be impracticable. It viewed the direction to begin payment only from the date of judgment as an equitable adjustment rather than an impermissible postponement of enforcement, and upheld the High Court's approach denying past recovery. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=283978