Ram Devi v. Ms. Kavyasi, the District Programme Officer, Child Development Service and Nutrition, Barabanki
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: contempt application (civil) CAPL No. 636 of 2025; Allahabad High Court Lucknow Bench; Manish Kumar, J.; non-compliance of writ court order dated 05.10.2023 in Writ A No. 3500 of 2023 (Ram Devi v. State of U.P.); payment of honorarium alongwith arrears w.e.f. 20.06.2022; show cause notice dated 20.06.2022; compliance affidavit; Government Order dated 14.09.2021; additional honorarium claim not pleaded/prayed in writ petition; District Programme Officer, Child Development Service and Nutrition, Barabanki. Relevance: illustrates limits of contempt jurisdiction — contempt court confined to enforcement of the specific order found complied with; matters neither pleaded nor prayed in the underlying writ petition cannot be entertained, and entitlement to Government Order benefits cannot be determined by the contempt court; dismissal with notice (if any) discharged.
What did the court decide?
The Contempt Court cannot treat the present contempt application as a Writ Petition while exercising its jurisdiction; the pleading and the prayer which were not pleaded/prayed in the Writ Petition cannot be looked into or entertained by the Contempt Court.