Court No. - 10
Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 3694 of 2019 Applicant :- Rampal Singh Opposite Party :- Kanhaiya Patel, Divisional Director Social Foresty Counsel for Applicant :- Sarita Jhingan,Anil Kumar Shukla
Hon'ble Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J.
Heard learned counsel for the applicant.
By order dated 21.1.2019 passed in Writ A No.8846 of 2017 filed by the applicant, the Court directed as under:
"Learned Standing Counsel states that the claim of the petitioner for grant of minimum in the pay scale would merit consideration in light of the decision rendered by the Supreme Court in Sabha Shanker Dubey Vs. Divisional Forest Officer and others [Civil Appeal No. 10956 of 2018 decided on 14 November 2018]. He further states that the exercise of consideration shall be concluded by the sixth respondent with expedition and preferably within a period of three months from the date of presentation of a certified copy of this order.
Accordingly and without going into the merits of the claim of the petitioner, this petition shall stand disposed of in light of the statement noted above."
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 Court within six weeks 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 stamped 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 recorded thereof.
The opposite party shall comply with the directions of the writ court and intimate him of 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 party within the stipulated time as aforementioned.
Order Date :- 30.5.2019 RKP