- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:41812-DB CCC No. 602 of 2023 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 23RD DAY OF OCTOBER, 2025 PRESENT THE HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE ANU SIVARAMAN AND THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIJAYKUMAR A. PATIL CIVIL CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 602 OF 2023 BETWEEN: V T BANU W/O VENKATESH, AGED ABOUT 62 YEARS, OCC-RETD EMPLOYEE OF KPCL, R/A PRABHA KIRANA, ASHOKA NAGARA, MANGALURU- 575 006. …COMPLAINANT (BY SRI. HANUMANTHAPPA HARAVI B.GOWDAR, ADVOCATE- ABSENT) AND: PANKAJ KUMAR PANDE THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, KARNATAKA POWER CORPORATION LTD, SHAKTHI BHAVANA, NO.82, RACE COURSE ROAD, BENGALURU- 560 001 …ACCUSED (BY SMT. NEHARICA SAHAY AND SRI. AKHILESHA BHAT.M., ADVOCATES) THIS CCC IS FILED UNDER SECTION 11 AND 12 OF THE CONTEMPT OF COURTS ACT, 1971, BY THE COMPLAINANT, WHERE IN HE PRAYS THAT THE HONBLE COURT BE PLEASED Digitally signed by SHARADAVANI B Location: High Court of Karnataka - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:41812-DB CCC No. 602 of 2023 TO INITIATE THE CONTEMPT OF COURT CASE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE ACCUSED FOR FRAGRANT DISOBEDIENCE OF THE ORDER PASSED BY THE HONBLE LEARNED SINGLE JUDGE IN WP NO.12013/2021 DATED 23.3.2023 VIDE ANNEXURE-A, PLEASE KINDLY INITIATE CONTEMPT OF COURT CASE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE ACCUSED. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ORDERS, THIS DAY, JUDGMENT WAS DELIVERED THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE ANU SIVARAMAN and HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIJAYKUMAR A. PATIL ORAL JUDGMENT (PER: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE ANU SIVARAMAN) None appears for the complainant. 2. Learned counsel for the accused has placed on record the compliance affidavit dated 09.08.2025, producing the copy of the bill payment details dated 08.08.2025. 3. The compliance affidavit is placed on record. - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:41812-DB CCC No. 602 of 2023 4. Accepting the same, the contempt petition is closed. Notice is discharged. 5. In case the complainant has any subsisting grievance, it is for the complainant to work out his remedies and dropping of this contempt will not stand in the way of the complainant availing such remedy, as available in law. Sd/- (ANU SIVARAMAN) JUDGE Sd/- (VIJAYKUMAR A. PATIL) JUDGE HR