Court No. - 10
Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 5567 of 2019 Applicant :- Satwant Singh Batra And 3 Others Opposite Party :- Sanjay Kumar, Commissioner Saharanpur Mandal Counsel for Applicant :- Ashok Kumar Singh Bais
Hon'ble Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J.
By order dated 3.4.2018 passed in Writ C No.12213 of 2018 filed by the applicant, the Court directed as under:
"Without expressing any opinion on the merits of the claim of the petitioners, this Court considers it appropriate to dispose of this petition by requiring the first respondent to consider and decide the alleged pending appeal of the petitioners, expeditiously, preferably, within a period of four months from the date of production of certified copy of this order after giving opportunity of hearing to the parties concerned, in accordance with law, unless there is any legal impediment in doing so.
The petition stands disposed of."
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 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 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 applicants to move a fresh application, if the order is not complied with by the opposite party within the stipulated time as aforementioned.
Order Date :- 29.8.2019 RKP