Court No. - 4
Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 1462 of 2021 Applicant :- Ashok Kumar Yadav@ Ashok Kumar Opposite Party :- Ashok Kumar Srivastava (Now Retired), Executive Director,Rajya Karamchari Kalyan Nigam And 2 Others Counsel for Applicant :- Ajay Kumar Counsel for Opposite Party :- Jagannath Maurya
Hon'ble Prakash Padia,J.
The applicant is before this Court for a direction to initiate contempt proceeding against the opposite party for wilful disobedience of the judgement and order dated 18.02.2020 passed in Writ A No.2731 of 2020 and order dated 5.10.2020 passed in Contempt Application (Civil) No.3699 of 2020. The operative portion of the order is reproduced hereibelow :-
"Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.
Although the petition challenges an order of suspension, learned counsel for the petitioner prays for framing the peremptory directions for expeditious conclusion of the departmental enquiry which has been pending since October 2019.
Sri Jagannath Maurya, learned counsel appearing for the respondent states that subject to the petitioner cooperating in that enquiry and not taking any unnecessary adjournments all endeavour shall be made to conclude the same with expedition and preferably within a period of three months from today.
The statement so made is recorded and accepted. The petition stand disposed of accordingly."
Today when the matter is taken up, it is informed by learned counsel for the applicant that the order passed by the writ court has already been complied with, therefore, no cause of action remained survive and prays that the present application be dismissed as infructuous.
In view of the same, the present contempt application is dismissed as infructuous.
Order Date :- 30.7.2021 Pramod Tripathi