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[2025:RJ-JP:24362-DB] HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR D.B. Civil Contempt Petition No. 379/2025 Smt. Kiran Arya Alias Kiran Mehta, Aged About 68 Years, W/o Shyam Sundar Mehta R/o 380-A, First Floor, Gali No. 2, Rajapark Jaipur. ----Petitioner Versus
1. State Of Rajasthan Through Secretary To The Government Of Rajasthan, Department Of School Education, Secretariat, Jaipur.
2. Shri Krishna Kunal, Secretary To The Government Of Rajasthan, Department Of School Education, Secretariat, Jaipur.
3. Manju Sharma, District Education Officer, Secondary Education, Siksha Sankul, Jaipur.
4. Jasweer Singh, Managing Committee, Guru Nanak Dev Senior Secondary School, Adarsh Nagar, Jaipur. ----Respondents For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Javed Khan For Respondent(s) :
HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. MANINDRA MOHAN SHRIVASTAVA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SHRIMALI
Order 03/07/2025
1. This contempt petition has been filed alleging willful disobedience of order passed by this Court on 06.11.2015 in the case of State of Rajasthan & Another Vs. The Management Committee Sh. Bhagwan Das Todi College (D.B. Special Appeal Writ No. 663/2015) & two other connected appeals.
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Order passed by this Court was judgment in rem. State as well as private institutions are required to consider the claim of the petitioner in the light of the aforesaid decision.
3. We are inclined to dispose of this petition at this stage in the manner that the case of the petitioner shall also be examined in terms of order dated 01.12.2021 passed by this Court in the case of Shri Banwari Lal Bhukar & Anr. vs. Anoop Khinchi & Ors.- D.B. Civil Contempt Petition No.740/2016 and other connected matters wherein this Court had given detailed directions as below:-
“1. It shall be an obligation on the part of the Commissioner, College Education to immediately release the dues payable to the petitioners as per the directions issued by this Court from time to time and the directions which have already been issued by the Hon’ble Supreme Court on 09.09.2021 in the case of State of Rajasthan Versus Manju Saxena & Ors., Special Leave to Appeal (c) No.13791/2019, wherein, the Hon’ble Supreme Court had directed compliance to be made within a period of eight weeks.
2. A brief, but clear order regarding compliance of the order in respect of each of the contempt petitioners will have to be passed by the concerned Directorate within a period of ten weeks from today.
3. The orders in respect of each of the contempt petitioners, which are required to be passed clearly stating compliance of the order, shall be reported directly to the Registry of this Court, which shall be placed before this Court under a separate registered case.
4. With the aforesaid observations and directions, this contempt petition, at this stage, is disposed off, however, with liberty to revive, if any grievance still remains unredressed.”
4. All the authorities including the Secretariat of the Department of School Education as also the private school education officials shall be under an obligation to provide
[2025:RJ-JP:24362-DB] (3 of 3) [CCP-379/2025] necessary information, if any demanded by Department of Secondary Education towards compliance of the order which was passed earlier by this Court and in the case referred to hereinabove.
5. Contempt petition is, accordingly, disposed of.
(CHANDRA PRAKASH SHRIMALI),J (MANINDRA MOHAN SHRIVASTAVA),CJ N. Gandhi/Gaurav/27