CHHEDA LAL v. DIKSHA BHANDARI, PRABHAI VAN ADHIKARI VAN EVAM VAN JEEV PRABHAG
CAPL/1686/2025 · 2025-04-15
Piyush Agrawal
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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:55576 Court No. - 10 Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 1686 of 2025 Applicant :- Chheda Lal Opposite Party :- Diksha Bhandari, Prabhai Van Adhikari Van Evam Van Jeev Prabhag Counsel for Applicant :- Ramendra Kumar Shukla Hon'ble Piyush Agrawal,J. Heard learned counsel for the applicant. Vide order dated 05.09.2024 passed in Writ A No. 13761/2024 filed by the applicant, the writ Court directed as under:
"Until further orders of this Court, the petitioner shall be paid the minimum pay admissible to a regular Class-IV employee, working in the Forest Department on a month-to-month basis. However, the petitioner shall not be entitled to any allowances or increment. "
Learned counsel for the applicant submits that a certified copy of the aforesaid
order was submitted for compliance before the opposite party on 14.09.2024, but the opposite party has wilfully 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 a month 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 :- 16.4.2025 Amit Mishra Digitally signed by :- AMIT KUMAR MISHRA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad