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Ravindra Kumar Gupta v. Sh. Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj,D.M.

Allahabad HC12 Oct 2022CAPL/6062/2022

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What is this about?

In this contempt application under the Contempt of Courts Act, the High Court found prima facie case for punishment for willful disobedience of an earlier writ order. The court instead issued three months' time to the opposite party to comply with the direction to execute a recovery certificate before taking punitive action.

What did the court decide?

Opposite party granted three months' time to comply with the earlier order before any punishment is awarded for willful disobedience.

Ravindra Kumar Gupta Vs Sh. Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj,D.M. — Contempt of Court | Allahabad HC (2022)

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Court No. - 10

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Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 6062 of 2022

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Applicant :- Ravindra Kumar Gupta Opposite Party :- Sh. Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj,D.M. Counsel for Applicant :- Girish Chandra Shukla

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Hon'ble Rohit Ranjan Agarwal,J.

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Heard learned counsel for the applicant.

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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 14.02.2022 passed by this Court in Writ -C No.981 of 2022.

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It is contended that applicant had filed aforesaid writ, which was disposed of vide order dated 14.02.2022 directing the opposite party to make all endeavour to execute the recovery certificate within two months from the date of service of order. Copy of the said order was served to the opposite party on 22.02.2022, but the said direction has not been complied with by the opposite party till date.

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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.

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However, no notice is issued to the opposite party at this stage. The opposite party is granted three months' further time to comply with the order dated 14.02.2022 passed by this Court in Writ-C No.981 of 2022 from the date of production of a certified copy of this order.

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The applicant shall supply a duly stamped registered envelope addressed to the opposite party and another selfaddressed envelope to the office within two weeks from today.

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The office shall send a copy of this order along with the selfaddressed envelope of the applicant with a copy of contempt application to the opposite party within one week thereafter and keep a record thereof.

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The opposite party shall comply with the directions of the writ court and intimate the applicant the order through the selfaddressed envelop within a week thereafter.

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In case, the opposite party does not comply with the order, it would be open to the applicant to approach this court again.

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With the aforesaid observations, this application is finally disposed of at this stage.

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Order Date :- 12.10.2022 Kushal

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Digitally signed by KUSHAL AGRAWAL Date: 2022.10.13 12:50:52 IST Reason: Location: High Court of Judicature at Allahabad

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