- 1 - NC: 2025:KHC:3553-DB CCC No. 846 of 2024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 27TH DAY OF JANUARY, 2025 PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR N. V. ANJARIA, CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE M.I.ARUN CIVIL CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 846 OF 2024 BETWEEN: 1. SRI G.N. SUBRAMANYACHAR S/O J. NARAYANACHAR AGED ABOUT 59 YEARS RESIDING AT NO.43 SRI VEERABHADRA SWAMY LAYOUT UTTARAHALLI BENGALURU-560 061. …COMPLAINANT (BY SRI BHARATH B. YADAV, ADVOCATE FOR SRI H.M. MURALIDHAR, ADVOCATE) AND: 1. SRI K.V. RAMAKRISHNA SECRETARY SUVARNA CO-OPERATIVE BANK LTD. NO.612, CHANDRA BUILDING Digitally signed by H K HEMA Location: High Court of Karnataka - 2 - NC: 2025:KHC:3553-DB CCC No. 846 of 2024 AVENUE ROAD BENGALURU-560 027. …ACCUSED (BY SRI DHANANJAYA P., ADVOCATE FOR SRI R. KRISHNA, ADVOCATE) THIS CCC IS FILED UNDER SECTIONS 11 AND 12 OF THE CONTEMPT OF COURTS ACT, 1971 READ WITH ARTICLE 215 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA, PRAYING TO INITIATE CONTEMPT OF COURTS PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE ACCUSED FOR WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE OF THE LAWFUL ORDER DATED 01.02.2021 PASSED BY THIS HON'BLE COURT IN W.P. NO.35377/2015 AND PUNISH THE ACCUSED IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW, OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE PASS SUCH OTHER ORDER/S AS THIS HON'BLE COURT DEEM FIT TO HAVE PASS ON THE FACTS AND IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF CASE, IN THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE AND EQUITY. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ORDERS, THIS DAY, JUDGMENT WAS DELIVERED THEREIN AS UNDER: d` CORAM: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. JUSTICE N. V. ANJARIA and HON'BLE MR JUSTICE M.I.ARUN - 3 - NC: 2025:KHC:3553-DB CCC No. 846 of 2024 ORAL JUDGMENT [ (PER: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. JUSTICE N. V. ANJARIA) It is in respect of the order dated 01.02.2021 passed by learned Single Judge in Writ Petition No.35377 of 2015 the contempt of Court is alleged. 2. The writ petition was disposed of by learned Single Judge by order in which a settlement was recorded between the parties. The settlement inter alia provided that respondent No.1-the complainant herein had claimed Rs.4,00,000/- towards his backwages. The petitioner agreed that respondent No.1 would not be entitled to continuity of service and his regular employment was treated valid with effect from 18.08.2015. 3. The settlement recorded that the terms arrived at were in full and final settlement of all dispute between the parties. The contempt petition in respect of the said order dated 01.02.2021 came to be filed on 07.08.2024. - 4 - NC: 2025:KHC:3553-DB CCC No. 846 of 2024 4. Section 20 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 reads as under, "20. Limitation for actions for contempt.-No court shall initiate any proceedings of contempt, either on its own motion or otherwise, after the expiry of a period of one year from the date on which the contempt is alleged to have been committed." 5. The section contemplates that the contempt proceedings will have to be initiated after expiry of a period of one year from the date on which the contempt is alleged to have been committed. 6. In view of the above bar, the present contempt petition is not maintainable. 7. It is dismissed as not maintainable. Sd/- (N. V. ANJARIA) CHIEF JUSTICE Sd/- (M.I.ARUN) JUDGE hkh. List No.: 1 Sl No.: 19