Kamla Shankar vs Ajit Singh
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
 
 

?Court No. - 10
 

 
Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 3797 of 2022
 

 
Applicant :- Kamla Shankar
 
Opposite Party :- Ajit Singh
 
Counsel for Applicant :- Binod Kumar Tripathi
 

 
Hon'ble Rohit Ranjan Agarwal,J.

Instrucitons have come, which are taken on record.

Shri Arvind Singh, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel states that the proceedings under Section 67 of the U.P. Revenue Code, 2006 shall be concluded by the opposite parties very soon.

The present contempt application has been filed under Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act for punishing the Opposite Party for willful disobedience of the judgment and order dated 4.3.2022 passed by this Court in Public Interest Litigation (P.I.L.) No. 238 of 2022 (Kamla Shankar vs. State of U.P. and others).

It is contended that applicant had approached this Court through aforesaid petition, which was disposed of vide order dated 4.3.2022 . Copy of the order of writ Court was served upon opposite party through registered post on 31.5.2022, but according to the applicant, the said order has not been complied with by the opposite party till date.

Prima facie, a case has been made out for punishing the opposite party for willful disobedience of the judgment and order passed in the aforesaid writ petition.

However, no notice is issued to the opposite party at this stage. The opposite party is granted three months further time to comply with the order dated 4.3.2022 passed by this Court in Public Interest Litigation (P.I.L.) No. 238 of 2022 (Kamla Shankar vs. State of U.P. and others) 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 envelope to the office within two weeks 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 record 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.

In case, the opposite party does not comply with the order, it would be open to the applicant to approach this court again.

With the aforesaid observations, this application is finally disposed of at this stage.

Order Date :- 19.12.2022

Sumaira