KANTA KHURANA W/O OM PRAKASH KHURANA v. STATE OF RAJASTHAN THROUGH SHRI KRISHNA KUNAL
CCP/247/2025 · 2025-07-02
Maneesh Sharma, Manindra Mohan Shrivastava
Contempt Petitionbody2025
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[2025:RJ-JP:24222-DB] HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR D.B. Civil Contempt Petition No. 247/2025
1. Kanta Khurana W/o Om Prakash Khurana, Aged About 71 Years, R/o - House No. 157A, Ram Gali No. 3, Rajapark, Jaipur. 2. Darshana Bhatia W/o Sh. Chandra Prakash Bhatia, Aged About 67 Years, R/o - House No. 21, Gurunanakpura, Adarsh Nagar, Jaipur. 3. Meena Sachdev, W/o Pawan Katyal, Aged About 64 Years, R/o - House No. 323/7, Uday Marg, Rajapark, Jaipur. ----Petitioners Versus
1. State Of Rajasthan Through Shri Krishna Kunal, Secretary To The Government Of Rajasthan, Department Of School Education, Secretariat, Jaipur. 2. Manju Sharma, District Education Officer, Secondary Education, Siksha Sankul, Jaipur. 3. Suresh Chand Bhatia, Secretary Of Managing Committee, Bhagat Asanand Public School, Rajapark, Adarsh Nagar, Jaipur. ----Respondents For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Javed Khan For Respondent(s) :
HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. MANINDRA MOHAN SHRIVASTAVA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANEESH SHARMA Order 02/07/2025
1. The contempt petition has been filed alleging disobedience of an order passed by this Court on 06.11.2015 in the case of State of Rajastan & Another Vs. The Management Committee Sh. Bhagwan Das Todi College (D.B. Special Appeal Writ No. 663/2015) & two other connected appeals. 2. The order passed by this Court was a judgment in rem. [2025:RJ-JP:24222-DB] (2 of 3) [CCP-247/2025]
3. The respondents shall consider the case of the petitioners. Instead of issuing notice on contempt, we are inclined to dispose of this petition with a direction that the case of the petitioners shall also be examined in terms of an order dated 01.12.2021 passed by this Court in the case of Shri Banwari Lal Bhukar & Anr. vs. Anoop Khinchi & Ors.-D.B. Civil Contempt Petition No.740/2016 and other connected matters wherein, this Court had given detailed directions as below:-
“1. It shall be an obligation on the part of the Commissioner, College Education to immediately release the dues payable to the petitioners as per the directions issued by this Court from time to time and the directions which have already been issued by the Hon’ble Supreme Court on 09.09.2021 in the case of State of Rajasthan Versus Manju Saxena & Ors., Special Leave to Appeal (c) No.13791/2019, wherein, the Hon’ble Supreme Court had directed compliance to be made within a period of eight weeks. 2.
2. A brief, but clear order regarding compliance of the order in respect of each of the contempt petitioners will have to be passed by the concerned Directorate within a period of ten weeks from today. 3. The orders in respect of each of the contempt petitioners, which are required to be passed clearly stating compliance of the order, shall be reported directly to the Registry of this Court, which shall be placed before this Court under a separate registered case. 4. With the aforesaid observations and directions, this contempt petition, at this stage, is disposed off, however, with liberty to revive, if any grievance still remains unredressed.”
4. All the authorities including the Secretariat of the Department of School Education as also the private school education officials shall be under an obligation to provide necessary information, if any demanded by the Department of Secondary Education towards compliance of the order which was
[2025:RJ-JP:24222-DB] (3 of 3) [CCP-247/2025] passed earlier by this Court and in the case referred to hereinabove. (MANEESH SHARMA),J (MANINDRA MOHAN SHRIVASTAVA),CJ NAVAL KISHOR /Diksha-73