DR. MANISH KUMAR MAURYA v. SRI RAVINDER NAIK, PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, CIVIL SECRETARIATE AND ANOTHER
CAPL/1751/2025 · 2025-04-17
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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:57251 Court No. - 10 Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 1751 of 2025 Applicant :- Dr. Manish Kumar Maurya Opposite Party :- Sri Ravinder Naik, Principal Secretary, Ministry Of Animal Husbandry, Civil Secretariate And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Suresh Kumar,Suyash Pandey Hon'ble Piyush Agrawal,J. Heard learned counsel for the applicant. Vide order dated 10.2.2025 passed in Writ A No. 354 of 2025 filed by the applicant, the writ Court directed as under:
" 6. In the given facts and circumstances, this petition stands disposed of with direction to the respondent concerned to consider and dispose of the representation of petitioner dated 24.12.2024 within a maximum period of three weeks from the production of certified copy of this order.
7. Needless to add that the order to be passed must be reasoned and speaking one. "
Learned counsel for the applicant submits that a certified copy of the aforesaid order was submitted for compliance before the opposite party on 14.2.2025 along with representation, 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 for punishing the opposite party for willful disobedience of the writ Court order. However, considering the facts and circumstances of the case, one more opportunity is accorded to the opposite party to comply with the aforesaid order of the writ Court in its letter and spirit within one 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 the applicant(s) 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 :- 18.4.2025 Rahul Dwivedi/- Digitally signed by :- RAHUL DWIVEDI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad