Uttam Kumar v. Dr. Vijay Bahadur Dwivedi, Director Horticulture and Food Processing, Lko.
Case brief
What is this about?
Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench; Contempt Application (CIVIL) No. 1058 of 2025; Uttam Kumar v. Dr. Vijay Bahadur Dwivedi (Director, Horticulture and Food Processing); disobedience/non-compliance of writ court order dated 26.11.2024 in Writ A No.11232 of 2024 (Uttam Kumar v. State of U.P.); mere decision to prefer Special Appeal is not a ground to defer contempt proceedings; time-application rejected; affidavit of compliance directed by 29.05.2025, failing which framing of charge; Hon'ble Rajeev Singh, J.; order dated 14.5.2025.
What did the court decide?
Interim order: respondent's application for grant of time rejected; case listed for 29.05.2025 with direction to the respondent to file affidavit of compliance by then, failing which to appear for framing of charge; the contempt application itself not finally disposed. ¶10