Court No. - 10
Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 6272 of 2019 Applicant :- Ravindra Pratap Singh Opposite Party :- Bhanu Chandra Goswami, D.M.
Counsel for Applicant :- Ashok Kumar Gupta
Hon'ble Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J.
Heard learned counsel for the applicant.
By order dated 18.12.2018 passed in Writ C No. 42887 of 2018 filed by the applicant, the Court directed as under:
"1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.
2. Admittedly, the petitioner's application for grant of fire-arm license was filed on 05.11.2012. The same is stated to be pending.
3. In view of passage of time, no mandamus may be issued for deciding that application.
4. However, it is left open to the petitioner to make a fresh application under Arms Rules, 2016. If such application is filed with a period of three weeks from today, along with certified copy of this order, the same may be dealt with and decided in accordance with law, keeping in mind the timelines provided under the Arms Rules, 2016.
5. With the aforesaid observation, the present petition is disposed of. "
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 two 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 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 :- 26.9.2019 Jaswant