HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 2691 of 2025 Court No. - 8 HON'BLE MANISH KUMAR, J. 1. Compliance affidavit has been filed on behalf of respondent, which is taken on record. 2. Learned Standing Counsel has submitted that in compliance of judgment and order dated 25.03.2025 the security amount and license fee has been refunded/ credited in the account of the applicant and in support thereof the document has been enclosed alongwith the compliance affidavit. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant is unable to dispute the submission made by the learned counsel for the respondent but he has submitted that no interest has been paid on delayed payment. 4. After hearing learned counsel for the parties and going through the record of the case, it is found that there was only direction of the writ court to refund the security amount and license fee, Para 11 of the order dated 25.03.2025 is quoted hereinbelow: "11. The security amount and the license fee which were confiscated by means of the impugned order shall be refunded to the petitioner." 5. There is no direction for payment of interest, so the submission made by the learned counsel for the applicant is not tenable in the eyes of law. 6. In view of fact, circumstances and discussion made hereinabove, the judgment and order passed by the writ court has been complied with and for all practical purposes, the present contempt petition has become infructuous and the same may be dismissed as infructuous. 7. As such, the present contempt application is dismissed as infructuous. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Dileep Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : Radheyshyam Maurya .....Applicant(s) Sri Shiv Sahay Awasthi Distt. Magistrate Licensing Authority, Pratapgarh .....Opposite Party(s) 8. Notice issued earlier, if any, stands discharged. November 19, 2025 S. Kumar CAPL No. 2691 of 2025 2 (Manish Kumar,J.) Digitally signed by :- SANTOSH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench