Court No. - 10
Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 3770 of 2019 Applicant :- Rajesh Kumar Nigam Opposite Party :- Vishwar Kumar Pant, District Magistrate Counsel for Applicant :- Syed Fahim Ahmed Hon'ble Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J. Heard learned counsel for the applicant.
The applicant is before this Court for a direction to initiate contempt proceeding against the respondents for disobedience of the order dated 21.12.2018 passed in Writ-C No.43368 of 2018 (Rajesh Kumar Nigam v. State of U.P. & Ors.). For ready reference, the relevant extract of order dated 21.12.2018 is quoted as under:-
"It is further made clear that in view of the Arms Rules, 2016 having been enforced, the petitioner may be permitted to make available to the licensing authority, all details as are required to be submitted under the new rules and the same may be treated to have been filed in the proceedings that are already pending and the same may not be treated as a fresh application but continuance of the proceedings in remand."
Learned counsel for the applicant submits that a certified copy of the aforesaid order alongwith other documents was submitted for compliance before the opposite parties but the opposite parties have wilfully not complied with the order and, thus, have 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 aforesaid order of the Court within three 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 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 applicant with a copy of contempt application to the opposite parties within one week thereafter and keep a recorded thereof.
The opposite party shall comply with the directions of the writ court and intimate the applicant the order through the self- addressed envelop 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 parties within the stipulated time as aforementioned.
Order Date :- 31.5.2019 A. Pandey