- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:4626-DB CCC No. 725 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 28TH DAY OF JANUARY, 2026 PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR. VIBHU BAKHRU, CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C.M. POONACHA CIVIL CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 725 OF 2025 BETWEEN: SRI. G. R. NITHIN, S/O. LATE RAJANNA, AGED ABOUT 33 YEARS, NO. 5/A, RANGANATHASWAMY NILAYA, 14TH CROSS, KUVEMPU NAGAR, 2ND STAGE, HASSAN - 573201 …COMPLAINANT (BY SRI. H DEVENDRAPPA.,ADVOCATE (ABSENT)) AND: 1. SRI.DORESWAMY THE CHAIRMAN, LIC OF INDIA, YOGAKSHEMA CENTRAL OFFICE, JEEVAN BIMA MARG, MUMBAI -400021 2. SRI.SHRIRAM NELLITHAI THE SENIOR DIVISIONAL MANAGER, DIVISIONAL OFFICE, LIC OF INDIA, MYSORE-570015 3. SRI.PUNETH KUMAR THE ZONAL MANAGER, LIC OF INDIA, HASSAN -573201 Digitally signed by NIRMALA DEVI Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:4626-DB CCC No. 725 of 2025 …ACCUSED (BY SRI. RAMACHANDRA G BHAT, ADVOCATE) THIS CCC IS FILED UNDER SECTIONS 11 AND 12 OF THE CONTEMPT OF COURTS ACT, BY THE COMPLAINANT, PRAYING TO DECLARE THAT THE ACCUSED/RESPONDENTS HAVE COMMITTED A WILFUL DISOBEDIENCE OF THE ORDER PASSED BY THIS HONBLE COURT IN W.P.NO.14995/2021 (S- RES) DATED 08.01.2025 AND 21.02.2025 FOR NOT HAVING CONSIDERED THE REPRESENTATION SUBMITTED BY THE COMPLAINANT BY GIVING COMPASSIONATE APPOINTMENT EMPLOYMENT AND COST OF RS.1,00,000/- TO THE COMPLAINANT. 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. JUSTICE C.M. POONACHA) 1. The present complaint is filed alleging willful disobedience of the orders dated 08.01.2025 and 21.02.2025 passed in Writ Petition No.14995/2021 (S-RES), the operative part of which reads as under: (i) The writ petition is allowed. (ii) The endorsements at Annexure-D dated 21.11.2020, Annexure-E dated 04.01.2021 and Annexure-F dated 26.04.2021 are quashed. - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:4626-DB CCC No. 725 of 2025 (iii) The respondent-LIC is directed to consider the case of the petitioner for compassionate appointment in terms of clause 21 of 1993 Instructions and provide employment to the petitioner as “Record Clerk” without reference to the pension/family pension or terminal benefits received by the mother of the petitioner by following the dictum of the Hon'ble Apex Court in GOVIND PRAKASH VERMA case (supra). (iv)The respondent-LIC shall pay cost of Rs.1,00,000/- to the petitioner, within one month from today. 2. Learned counsel for the accused has filed a memo of compliance placing on record the appointment order dated 27.01.2026 issued to the complainant. It is also placed on record that the cost of Rs.1,00,000/- has been paid. 3. In view of the above, the complaint is closed. Sd/- (VIBHU BAKHRU) CHIEF JUSTICE Sd/- (C.M. POONACHA) JUDGE ND List No.: 1 Sl No.: 44