- 1 - NC: 2025:KHC:17857-DB CCC No. 495 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 29TH DAY OF APRIL, 2025 PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR N. V. ANJARIA, CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE K. V. ARAVIND CCC NO. 495 OF 2025 (CIVIL) BETWEEN: BADAKAPPA, S/O RAMEGOWDA, AGED ABOUT 70 YEARS, R/O JADDIHALLI VILLAGE, SORABA TALUK, SHIMOGGA DISTRICT - 577 419. …COMPLAINANT (BY SRI. VEERENDRA R. PATIL, ADVOCATE) AND: 1. SRI. TUKARAMA B. NAIK, S/O LATE B. BANGARAPPA, AGED ABOUT 48 YEARS. 2. SRI VEERESHAPPA, S/O OF LATE KADERA KRIYAPPA, AGED ABOUT 52 YEARS. Digitally signed by PRABHAKAR SWETHA KRISHNAN Location: High Court of Karnataka - 2 - NC: 2025:KHC:17857-DB CCC No. 495 of 2025 3. SRI. VINAYAKA, S/O OF LATE KADERA ERAPPA, AGED ABOUT 45 YEARS 4. SRI. CHANDRAPPA, S/O OF LATE KADERA MAHADEVAPPA, AGED ABOUT 51 YEARS. 5. SRI. GANESHPPA S/O OF LATE KADERA DANAPPA, AGED ABOUT 60 YEARS. ACCUSED NO.1 TO 5 ARE R/O AT JADDIHALLI VILLAGE, KUPPAGADDE, DYAVANHALLI POST, SORABA TALUK, SHIMOGGA DISTRICT - 577 419. …ACCUSED THIS CCC IS FILED UNDER ARTICLE 215 OF CONSTITUTION OF INDIA, SECTION 11 AND 12 OF THE CONTEMPT OF COURTS ACT, 1971, PRAYS TO INITIATE THE CONTEMPT OF COURT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE ACCUSED NO.1 TO 5 HEREIN IN VIEW OF WILLFULLY DISOBEDIENCE OF THE ORDERS DATED 11.12.2023 PASSED BY THIS HONBLE COURT IN WP NO.16708/2021(LR) AND PUNISH THE ACCUSED NO.1 TO 5. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING, THIS DAY, JUDGMENT WAS DELIVERED THEREIN AS UNDER: - 3 - NC: 2025:KHC:17857-DB CCC No. 495 of 2025 CORAM: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. JUSTICE N. V. ANJARIA and HON'BLE MR JUSTICE K. V. ARAVIND ORAL JUDGMENT (PER: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. JUSTICE N. V. ANJARIA) Order dated 11.12.2023 brought under the contempt jurisdiction is an interim order, whereby learned Single Judge has directed the parties to maintain status-quo in the pending W.P.No.16708 of 2021. By virtue of very kind and the nature of the order which is admittedly interlocutory order, right of any of the parties are not finally determined, nor there is any pronouncement on merits so as to invest the order with trapping of finality. In the circumstances, the Court is not inclined to invoke the jurisdiction under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. The present contempt petition is dismissed accordingly. Sd/- (N. V. ANJARIA) CHIEF JUSTICE Sd/- (K. V. ARAVIND) JUDGE SMJ, List No.: 1 Sl No.: 7