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2025:HHC:3990 IN THE HIGH COURT OF
HIMACHAL P
RADESH, SHIMLA
COPC No.66 of 2025
Date of Decision: 28.02.2025 __________________________________________________________________________ Vijay Kumar
……...Petitioner Versus Onkar Chand Sharma and Others …....Respondents Coram Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sandeep Sharma, Judge. Whether approved for reporting? For the Petitioners: Mr. Arush Matlotia, Advocate. For the Respondents: Mr. Ravi Chauhan, Deputy Advocate General. _________________________________________________________________________________ Sandeep Sharma, J. (Oral) By way of present contempt petition, prayer has been made on behalf of the petitioner for initiation of contempt proceedings against the respondents for their having willfully and intentionally disobeyed the directions contained in order/judgment dated 27.05.2024, rendered in CWP No.3894 of 2024, whereby this Court disposed of the petition with direction to Engineer-in-Chief, JSV Division, Jawali, to consider and decide the pending representation of the petitioner dated 13.10.2023 within a period four weeks. Since despite there being aforesaid direction, no steps, whatsoever, came to be taken at the behest of the respondents for doing the needful, petitioner has approached this Court in the instant proceedings.
2. Mr. Ravi Chauhan, learned Deputy Advocate General appearing on behalf of the respondents, submits that though he has every reason to presume that by now, judgment alleged to have been violated
2025:HHC:3990 2 must have been complied with in its totality, but if not, same would be positively complied with within a period of three weeks from today.
3. Consequently, in view of the fair stand adopted by the learned Deputy Advocate General, this Court sees no reason to keep the present petition alive and accordingly, same is closed. However, respondents- contemnors are directed to do the needful in terms of judgment alleged to have been violated within a period of three weeks, failing which they would aggravate the contempt and petitioner would be at liberty to get the present petition revived, so that appropriate action in accordance with law is taken against the erring officials. February 28, 2025 (Sandeep Sharma), (Rajeev Raturi)
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