Court No. - 10
Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 2925 of 2019 Applicant :- Maiku Lal And 5 Others Opposite Party :- Gaurav Ranjan Srivastava, S.D.M. And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Vinod Kumar
Hon'ble Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J.
In response to the order dated 22.7.2019, learned counsel for the applicants has placed the supplementary affidavit dated 23.7.2019 and the same is taken on record. Through supplementary affidavit, it has been claimed that an appropriate application under Section 24 of the U.P.Revenue Code 2006 was duly received in the office of S.D.M./opposite party no. 1 in the month of April, 2018 which was forwarded to the office of Tehsildar on 23.4.2018 as received by the concerned Lekhpal/opposite party no. 2 but till date no action has been taken by the opposite parties and as such the opposite parties have 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 parties to comply with the order of the Writ Court within three months from the date of production of a certified copy of this order.
The applicants shall supply a duly stamped registered envelope addressed to the opposite parties 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 applicants with a copy of contempt application to the opposite parties within one week thereafter and keep a record thereof.
The opposite parties shall comply with the directions of the Writ Court and intimate the order to the applicants 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 applicants to move a fresh application, if the order is not complied with by the opposite parties within the stipulated time as aforementioned.
Order Date :- 25.7.2019 A.K.Srivastava