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Ravi Shankar v. Shri Ghanshyam Meena, District Magistrate Hamirpur U.P.

Allahabad HC21 Feb 2025CAPL/4887/2024

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What is this about?

Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench), Contempt Application (Civil) No. 4887 of 2024, decided 28.08.2025, Manish Kumar, J. Ravi Shankar v. Ghanshyam Meena, District Magistrate Hamirpur. Contempt over compliance with judgment/order dated 09.01.2024 in Writ A No. 8997 of 2010; order passed on representation but rejected; petition dismissed as infructuous; notices discharged; liberty to challenge via writ.

What did the court decide?

None substantive; the contempt application is dismissed as infructuous, earlier notices are discharged, and the applicant is left free to pursue available legal remedies. ¶13

Ravi Shankar Vs Shri Ghanshyam Meena, District Magistrate Hamirpur U.P. — Allahabad HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

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Outcome

None substantive; the contempt application is dismissed as infructuous, earlier notices are discharged, and the applicant is left free to pursue available legal remedies.

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Issue for consideration

Whether the contempt application remains maintainable, given that in purported compliance with the judgment and order dated 09.01.2024 in Writ A No. 8997 of 2010 an order has been passed on the petitioner's representation (though rejected), rendering the petition practically infructuous.

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Court's answer

Since the order passed on the petitioner's representation in compliance with the judgment and order dated 09.01.2024 in Writ A No. 8997 of 2010 was rejected, the contempt application is dismissed as infructuous.

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Ratio / Principle

Notice issued earlier, if any, stand discharged.

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Key takeaways

The applicant may avail whatever remedy is permissible under law (e.g., challenging the rejection of his representation); no separate order is required for this.obiter¶15

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. 4887 of 2024, High Court of Judicature at Allahabad (Lucknow Bench), Court No. 17, decided August 28, 2025 by Hon'ble Manish Kumar, J. Applicant Ravi Shankar (Counsel: M.K. Dixit) had sought enforcement of compliance with the judgment and order dated 09.01.2024 passed in Writ A No. 8997 of 2010 against Shri Ghanshyam Meena, District Magistrate, Hamirpur, U.P. The District Magistrate appeared pursuant to the Court's earlier order dated 06.08.2025 and filed a compliance affidavit taken on record. Counsel for the applicant conceded that, in compliance with the said judgment, an order had been passed on the petitioner's representation — though it was rejected — so the contempt petition had for all practical purposes become infructuous and sought its dismissal with liberty to file a fresh writ petition. The Court dismissed the contempt application as infructuous, discharged any notice earlier issued, and observed that it remains open to the applicant to avail remedies permissible under law without any separate order.

Ravi Shankar v. Shri Ghanshyam Meena, District Magistrate Hamirpur U.P.

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