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HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:39908-DB CCC No. 90 of 2025
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU
DATED THIS THE 9TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 2025
PRESENT
THE HON'BLE MR. VIBHU BAKHRU, CHIEF JUSTICE
AND
THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C.M. POONACHA
CIVIL CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 90 OF 2025
BETWEEN:
1.
SMT. MITHA D D/O. LATE DORERAJU T. L.
AGED ABOUT 33 YEARS RESIDING AT HOUSE NO. 813 VIJAYADHARA NILAYA NEAR HEMANTH PROVISIONAL STORES UDAYAGIRI EXTENSION HASSAN - 573 201 …COMPLAINANT (BY SRI SATISH K, ADVOCATE)
AND:
1.
SMT. V RASHMI MAHESH, I.A.S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE (STAMPS AND REGISTRATION) M. S. BUILDING BENGALURU - 560 001
2.
SRI K.A. DAYANAND, I.A.S INSPECTOR GENERAL OF REGISTRATION AND COMMISSIONER OF STAMPS 8TH FLOOR, KANDAYA BHAVAN K. G. ROAD BANGALORE - 560 009 …ACCUSED
Digitally signed by SRIDEVI S Location: High Court of Karnataka
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THE STATE OF KARNATAKA REPRESENTED BY ITS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE (STAMPS AND REGISTRATION) M. S. BUILDING BANGALORE - 560 001 …PRO FORMA RESPONDENT (BY SRI NAVEEN CHANDRASHEKAR, AGA)
THIS CCC IS FILED UNDER SECTIONS 11 AND 12 OF THE CONTEMPT OF COURTS ACT, 1971, PRAYING TO INITIATE CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE ACCUSED AND PUNISH THEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW FOR HAVING WILLFULLY DISOBEYED THE ORDER PASSED BY THIS HON'BLE COURT IN WRIT PETITION NO.24524/2024 (S-KSAT) DATED 25.09.2024 (ANNEXURE-A) & ETC.
THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ORDERS, THIS DAY,
ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER:
CORAM: HON'BLE MR. VIBHU BAKHRU, CHIEF JUSTICE and HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C.M. POONACHA
ORAL ORDER
(PER: HON'BLE MR. VIBHU BAKHRU, CHIEF JUSTICE)
1. The complainant has filed the present complaint alleging wilful disobedience of the order dated 25.09.2024 passed by the learned Single Judge in Writ Petition No.24524/2024 (S-KSAT), captioned 'Smt. Mitha D v. The State of Karnataka and another'.
2. The learned counsel for the accused submits that the said
order was subject matter of a special leave petition, being Special
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Leave Petition (Civil) Diary No.34763/2025 and by virtue of an
order dated 14.08.2025 passed in the said SLP, the Supreme Court has stayed the operation of the order dated 25.09.2024, the wilful disobedience of which is alleged.
3. In view of the above, the present complaint is closed with liberty to the complainant to revive the same or file a fresh complaint, subject to the outcome of the special leave petition pending before the Supreme Court.
Sd/- (VIBHU BAKHRU) CHIEF JUSTICE
Sd/- (C.M. POONACHA) JUDGE
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