Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:11380-DB Court No. - 10 Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CRIMINAL) No. - 2327 of 2019 Applicant :- State of U.P. Opposite Party :- Dr. Sumanesh Singh Counsel for Applicant :- Govt. Advocate Counsel for Opposite Party :- Onkar Nath Singh Rathore Hon'ble Vivek Chaudhary,J. Hon'ble Brij Raj Singh,J. 1. Heard learned A.G.A. for the applicant- State as well as learned counsel for the opposite party- contemnor and perused the material available on record. 2. The opposite party/contemnor- Dr. Sumanesh Singh is present in Court along with his counsel, who is an accused to the charge framed against him by the order dated 10.01.2025. He has submitted his reply affidavit today before this Court and the same is taken on record. 3. The paragraph no.4 of the aforesaid affidavit is given herein- under:- "that the deponent is aged about 75 yeas old and he is suffering the old age diseases and his mind is working properly in old age, as such the aforesaid mistake has been committed and in this regard, the deponent again tender his apology with bowing down his head before this Hon'ble Court." 4. Learned counsel for the contemnor submits that contemnor has already been in jail for 15 days. Therefore, an apology tendered by the opposite party- contemnor be accepted. 5. Looking into the age of the contemnor as well as since he has already been in jail for 15 days, apology is accepted with a caution note to the contemnor- Dr. Sumanesh Singh to be careful in future with regard to the orders passed by the Court and shall ensure due compliance of the same expeditiously. 6. In view of the aforesaid, contempt proceedings are dropped. Let notices be discharged. 7. Accordingly, the contempt petition is disposed of. Consigned to record. (Brij Raj Singh, J.) (Vivek Chaudhary, J.) Order Date :- 21.2.2025/Praveen Digitally signed by :- PRAVEEN KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench