Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:20493 Court No. - 2 Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 625 of 2025 Applicant :- Subash Shanker Singh Opposite Party :- Sanjeev Kannaujia, Chief Account Officer / Account Officer Pension, U.P. Jal Nigam Rural, Lucknow Counsel for Applicant :- R.K. Mishra Hon'ble Piyush Agrawal,J. Heard learned counsel for the applicant. Vide order dated 01.07.2024 passed in Writ A No.4328 of 2024 filed by the applicant, the writ Court directed as under: "The 5th respondent is directed to give a show cause notice within a period of two weeks from today to the petitioner to submit his reply and thereafter, petitioner would be submitting his reply within a further period of two weeks and thereafter a date shall be fixed by the respondent for giving oral hearing to the petitioner and it is thereafter, only any order will be passed. This formality will be completed within a period of six weeks of submitting reply by the petitioner." Learned counsel for the applicant submits that a certified copy of the aforesaid order was submitted for compliance before the opposite party on 23.09.2024, but the opposite party has willfully 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 writ Court within three months from the date of production of a copy of this order. The applicant 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 record 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 applicant to move a fresh application, if the order is not complied with by the opposite party within the stipulated time as aforementioned. Order Date :- 13.2.2025 Radhika Digitally signed by :- RADHIKA VISHWAKARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad