RIYAZ AHMAD v. MR. AKASH DEEP DIRECTOR OF REGIONAL PASSPORT OFFICE
CAPL/3305/2025 · 2025-07-15
Neeraj Tiwari
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[ 2025 DAILYLAW 74395 (ALL) · dailylaw.ai ]
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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:114793 Court No. - 1 Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 3305 of 2025 Applicant :- Riyaz Ahmad Opposite Party :- Mr. Akash Deep Director Of Regional Passport Office Counsel for Applicant :- Mohammad Tahir Kurashi,Mohd Shamim Khan,Shadab Ansari Hon'ble Neeraj Tiwari,J. Heard learned counsel for the applicant. The present contempt application has been filed under Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act for punishing the Opposite Party for willful disobedience of the judgment and order dated 23.04.2025 passed by this Court in Writ-C No. 12200 of 2023. It is contended that applicant had filed aforesaid writ, which was disposed of vide order dated 23.04.2025 with direction to the opposite party to reissue passport of applicant, but the said direction has not been complied with by the opposite party till date. Prima facie, a case has been made out for punishing the opposite party for willful disobedience of the judgment and
order passed in the aforesaid writ petition. However, no notice is issued to the opposite party at this stage. The opposite party is granted four weeks’ further time to comply with the order dated 23.04.2025 passed by this Court in Writ-C No. 12200 of 2023 from the date of production of a certified copy of this order. The applicant shall supply a duly stamped registered envelope addressed to the opposite party and another self-addressed
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 the order through the self- addressed envelop within a week thereafter. In case, the opposite party does not comply with the order, it would be open to the applicant to approach this court again. With the aforesaid observations, this application is finally
disposed of at this stage.
Order Date :- 16.7.2025 Sartaj Digitally signed by :- SARTAJ AHMAD High Court of Judicature at Allahabad