- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:29588-DB CCC No. 671 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 31ST DAY OF JULY, 2025 PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR. VIBHU BAKHRU, CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C M JOSHI CCC NO. 671 OF 2025 (CIVIL) BETWEEN: 1. HASSAN THERMAL POWER PVT LTD., A COMPANY INCORPORATED UNDER THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956 HAVING ITS ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE AT S-327, GREATER KAILASH-II, NEW DELHI-110048 REPRESENTED BY ITS DIRECTOR SMT. NALINI VIJAY KUMAR. …COMPLAINANT (BY MS. AKANKSHA CHOWDHARY, ADVOCATE FOR MS. DEEPA V, ADVOCATE) AND: 1. DR. MAHESH M. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER KARNATAKA INDUSTRIAL AREA DEVELOPMENT BOARD 14/3, 2ND FLOOR, R P BUILDING NRUPATHUNGA ROAD, BENGALURU - 560001. ....ACCUSED Digitally signed by PRABHAKAR SWETHA KRISHNAN Location: High Court of Karnataka - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:29588-DB CCC No. 671 of 2025 2. GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA THROUGH ITS CHIEF SECRETARY VIDHANA SOUDHA, BENGALURU 560001. ....PRO FORMA RESPONDENT (BY SRI NAVEEN CHANDRASHEKAR, AGA FOR R2) THIS CCC IS FILED UNDER SECTIONS 11 AND 12 OF THE CONTEMPT OF COURTS ACT, 1971 R/W ARTICLE 215 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA, BY THE COMPLAINANT, WHEREIN PRAYS THAT THE HON'BLE COURT BE PLEASED TO TAKE COGNIZANCE AND INITIATE ACTION AGAINST ALL THE RESPONDENTS HEREIN FOR THEIR WILFUL DISOBEDIENCE OF THE ORDERS DATED 19.07.2024 BY THE LEARNED SINGLE JUDGE IN WP NO.20598/2022(GM-KIADB) PRODUCED AS ANNEXURE-B AND ORDER DATED 15.04.2025 PASSED BY IN THE SPECIAL LEAVE TO APPEAL(C) NO.8310/2025 BY THE HON'BLE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA WHICH IS PRODUCED AS ANNEXURE-D ACCORDING TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE CONTEMPT OF COURT OF COURT ACT, 1971. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:29588-DB CCC No. 671 of 2025 CORAM: HON'BLE MR. VIBHU BAKHRU ,CHIEF JUSTICE and HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C M JOSHI ORAL ORDER (PER: HON'BLE MR. VIBHU BAKHRU,CHIEF JUSTICE) 1. Issue notice. 2. Learned Additional Government Advocate accepts notice for respondent No.2. 3. The complainant has filed the present complaint alleging that the accused has not complied with the order dated 07.06.2024 inasmuch as the accused has paid the interest due after a delay of more than a year. 4. The operative part of the said order reads as under: "(i) Writ petition is allowed in part. (ii) The petitioner is held entitled to interest at bank rates prevailing in respective years from time to time from the date of initial deposit till the date it was returned to the petitioner. (iii) The claim for compound interest stand rejected. (iv) In the light of the observations made in the course of the order, the petitioner is reserved liberty to agitate his claim for compensation before any appropriate fora. (v) All contentions qua compensation of both parties shall remain open." 5. It is clear from the above that the petitioner is entitled to interest at bank rates prevailing in respective years from time to time from the date on which initial deposit was made till the date it - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:29588-DB CCC No. 671 of 2025 was returned. Admittedly, the interest on the principal amount has been paid, albeit, on 03.07.2025. According to the complainant, there has been an inordinate delay of one year in paying the interest and therefore, the accused would be also liable to pay further interest. 6. The order in question does not contemplate payment of interest on interest. The operative part is confined to directing payment of interest till the principal was paid. Although there has been some delay in complying with the order dated 07.06.2024, indisputably, the said order has been complied. 7. No order to pay further interest can be passed in these proceedings. We do not consider it apposite to initiate any action for willful disobedience of the aforesaid order. 8. The complaint is, accordingly, disposed of. Sd/- (VIBHU BAKHRU) CHIEF JUSTICE Sd/- (C M JOSHI) JUDGE KPS, List No.: 1 Sl No.: 5