Anshika Gupta v. Mr. Lalit Kumar Kapil, Regional Officer Central Board Secondary Edu. Allahabad
Contempt – compliance effected
Case brief
What is this about?
Short single-judge order of the Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench (Neutral Citation 2025:AHC-LKO:42391), Court No. 17, decided 22.7.2025 by Rajeev Singh, J., in Contempt Application (Civil) No. 4728 of 2023, Anshika Gupta v. Lalit Kumar Kapil, Regional Officer, Central Board of Secondary Education, Allahabad. Counsel jointly stated that the Writ Court order dated 20.10.2022 in WRIT-C No. 7393 of 2022 stood complied with; the contempt application was therefore dismissed as infructuous. Of use only for the narrow proposition that contempt proceedings lose efficacy upon compliance of the underlying order; no statute or precedent was considered.
What did the court decide?
On the joint statement of learned counsel for the parties that the order of the Writ Court dated 20.10.2022 in WRIT-C No. 7393 of 2022 has already been complied with, the Court held that the contempt application has lost its efficacy.