HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA CONTEMPT CASE No. 700 OF 2013 DATED 6th JUNE, 2014.
BETWEEN Madineni Sudhakar …..Petitioner And Sri S. Harish, Revenue Divisional Officer, Hyderabad Division.
….Respondent.
HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA CONTEMPT CASE No. 700 OF 2013.
ORDER:
The fourth respondent, a private party in Writ Petition No. 19109 of 2011 filed this Contempt Case alleging that the official respondents have willfully and deliberately disobeyed the order dated 9.7.2012 passed by this Court in the aforesaid Writ Petition.
Sri Bansuriwala Krishna Mandir, Saidabad, Hyderabad, represented by its Executive Officer filed the aforesaid Writ Petition seeking to declare inaction on the part of the respondent-Revenue Divisional Officer, Hyderabad District, Hyderabad in taking steps to conduct an enquiry in case No. B/6326/1990 under Section 7 of AP (TA) Inam Abolition Act, 1955 pursuant to the remand orders of the Joint Collector, Hyderabad District in case No.B2/907/98 & B2/908/98, dt.7.2.2009 with regard to the rights of the parties after giving appropriate orders as illegal and arbitrary and for consequential direction to the Revenue Divisional Officer to take up steps as per law.
Upon consideration of the material on record and on hearing the learned Counsel on either side, this Court disposed of the Writ Petition on 9.7.2012 directing the Revenue Divisional Officer, Hyderabad Division, to dispose of the aforementioned case, as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period three months from the date of receipt of the certified copy of this order and further directed the parties to maintain status quo till the disposal of the case as stated above.
In this contempt case, the learned Counsel for the petitioner submitted that the respondent is deliberately delaying the disposal of the main case without any valid reasons. He pointed out that instead of disposing of the case, the respondent ordered orally a joint survey though not necessary and no one is disputing the identity of the property in dispute.
The respondent filed counter affidavit on 10.06.2013 stating that on remand of the matter, the case was taken on record and notices were issued to all the concerned parties and pursuant thereto, all parties along with their counsel appeared and concluded their arguments on 23.2.2013. It is further stated that as there is District boundary adjacent to the land in dispute which is assigned a HUDAFA number, a joint inspection is ordered and on receiving the report on status of the land, the case would be disposed of.
The learned Assistant Government Pleader appearing for the respondent now stated that the aforementioned case was disposed of on 17.7.2013.
Perused.
I am not inclined to go into merits or otherwise of the Contempt Case as it is now stated by the learned Assistant Government Pleader that the respondent disposed of the case in question on 17.7.2013. The order of this Court has been complied with, albeit with some amount of delay, and therefore this Court is not inclined to take a serious view of the matter. This Court is of the opinion that no willful disobedience is established warranting exercise of contempt jurisdiction.
The Contempt Case is therefore closed.
JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA
DATED 6th JUNE, 2014.
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