Court No. - 10
Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 3740 of 2019 Applicant :- Aniruddha Kumar Singh Chandraul Opposite Party :- Sri Anurag Srivastava, Principal Secretary Rural Development Counsel for Applicant :- Janardan Singh Hon'ble Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J. Heard learned counsel for the applicant.
By order dated 23.10.2018 passed in Writ A No. 22267 of 2018 filed by the applicants, this Court directed as under:
"3. This writ petition is disposed off without entering into the merits of the controversy with a liberty to the petitioner to file a fresh representation also detailing his grievance within a period of 10 days from today and a mandamus is issued to the respondent No. 1 that in case such a representation is filed by the petitioner within the stipulated time, he shall look into the grievance of the petitioner detailed by the petitioner in his representation and shall pass appropriate orders thereon within a period of three months from the date a certified copy of this order is produced before him. "
Learned counsel for the applicant submits that a certified copy of the aforesaid order was submitted for compliance before the opposite party but the opposite party has wilfully not complied with the order and, thus, has committed civil contempt liable for punishment under Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.
Prima facie a case of contempt has been made out. However, considering the facts and circumstances of the case, one more opportunity is afforded to the opposite party to comply with the aforesaid order of the writ Court within two months from the date of production of a certified copy of this order.
The applicant shall supply a duly stamped registered envelope addressed to the opposite party and another self-addressed envelope to the office within one week from today. The office shall send a copy of this order along with the self-addressed envelope of the applicant with a copy of contempt application to the opposite party within one week thereafter and keep a record thereof.
The opposite party shall comply with the directions of the writ court and intimate the order to the applicant through the self-
addressed envelope within a week thereafter.
With the aforesaid observations, this application is disposed of at this stage with liberty to the applicant to move a fresh application, if the order is not complied with by the opposite party within the stipulated time as aforementioned.
Order Date :- 31.5.2019 A.K.Srivastava