[2026:JHHC:25057] Page | 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI Cont. Case (Cvl.) No. 728 of 2025 --------- Keshaw Prasad, aged about 70 year, s/o Late Ramdeo Rai Resident of ‘Astha’ Hi Tech City, Duplex No.18, P.O. and P.S. Sonari, Town Jamshedpur, District East Singhbhum. … … Petitioner Versus 1. State of Jharkhand. 2. Mr. Anurag Gupta, IPS, Director General of Police, Jharkhand, Jharkhand Police Headquarters, P.O. Dhurwa, P.s. Jagarnathpur, District Ranchi. 3. Mr. Manoj Swargiary, IPS, Superintendent of Police, P.O. P.S. and District-Bokaro. 4. Mr. Anurag Gupta, IPS, Incharge cum Additional Director General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Jharkhand, Jharkhand Police Headquarters, P.O. Dhurwa, P.S. Jagarnathpur, District Ranchi. 5. Mr. Deepak Kumar, IPS, Superintendent of Police (C), Criminal Investigation Department, P.O. & P.S. Doranda, Jharkhand, Ranchi. 6. State of Bihar through Chief Secretary, Mr. Amrit Lal Meena, IAS, P.O., G.P.O., P.s. Sachiwalay Thana, State of Bihar. 7. Mr. Avakash Kumar, IPS, Senior Superintendent of Police, P.O. Bankipur, P.S. Gandhi Maidan Thana, Patna. … …Opp. Parties --------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUJIT NARAYAN PRASAD ---------- For the Petitioner : Mr. P.P.N. Roy, Sr. Advocate Mr. Sakshi Charu, Advocate For the O.P.-State : Mr. Ratnesh Kumar, SC (L&C)-I Mr. Rakesh Kr. Shashi, AC to SC (L&C)-I For the State of Bihar : Mr. Ranjit Kumar, AC to GA (Bihar) ---------- 03/Dated: 19th August, 2026 1. The instant contempt case has been filed under Sections 11 and 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act against the opp. parties for willful and deliberate non-compliance of the order dated 21.02.2024 passed in W.P.(S) No. 2235 of 2014. 2. Mr. Ratnesh Kumar, learned counsel for the concerned opp. party has submitted that the order has been complied with by passing a fresh reasoned order in terms of the operative part of the order dated [2026:JHHC:25057] Page | 2 21.02.2024 passed in W.P.(S) No. 2235 of 2014 as referred in paragraph-13 thereof. 3. Mr. P.P.N. Roy, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner has seriously disputed the aforesaid fact by submitting that the order since was to be passed in accordance with law but if the order passed by the authority concerned opp. party will be considered, then, the order of compulsory retirement has been passed with retrospective effect which is not at all permissible. 4. This Court has heard the learned counsel for the parties. 5. This Court has also gone through the operative part of the order dated 21.02.2024 passed in W.P.(S) No. 2235 of 2014, particularly at paragraph-13 thereof, whereby and whereunder the direction has been passed upon the concerned authority while remitting the matter after quashing the order dated 29.09.2012 to pass order afresh in accordance with law. 6. The order, in terms thereof, has been passed on 22.07.2026. The authority has compulsorily retired the petitioner with retrospective effect. 7. What is being contended by the learned senior counsel for the petitioner that the retrospective compulsory retirement is not permissible but this Court without delving upon the said issue, since this Court is not having extraordinary jurisdiction to be exercised under Article 226 of the Constitution of India rather this Court is having jurisdiction under Section 11 and 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, as such, it will not be proper for this Court to quash that part of the order in absence of any conferment of power. 8. This Court, therefore, is of the view while disposing of the present contempt case, to grant liberty to the petitioner to challenge the part of the order dated by which the petitioner has been compulsory retired with retrospective effect. 9. Accordingly, the present contempt case is closed, as such, disposed of with the liberty to the petitioner to challenge the part of the order dated [2026:JHHC:25057] Page | 3 by which the petitioner has been compulsory retired with retrospective effect before the appropriate forum, if the petitioner so wishes. (Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.) 19th August, 2026 Saurabh/-