Dismissed

Chandulal Prabhudas Udasi v. Zilla Parishad Jalgaon and Others

Bombay HC6 Jul 2021WP/5098/2021

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The High Court dismissed three writ petitions filed against an order of the Civil Judge rejecting an interim injunction application in contempt proceedings. The Court held that CPC Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 are inapplicable to contempt proceedings under the Contempt of Courts Act, and entertaining such applications amounts to gross abuse of the process of law.

What did the court decide?

Petitions dismissed as gross abuse of process of law; no costs imposed due to COVID plea.

Chandulal Prabhudas Udasi Vs Zilla Parishad Jalgaon and… — Contempt of Court | Bombay HC (2021)

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD

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932 WRIT PETITION NO.5098 OF 2021

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CHANDULAL PRABHUDAS UDASI VERSUS ZILLA PARISHAD JALGAON AND OTHERS

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WITH

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WRIT PETITION NO.4146 OF 2021

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NATTHU RAMKRUSHNA MAHAJAN AND OTHERS VERSUS ZILLA PARISHAD JALGAON AND OTHERS

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WITH

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WRIT PETITION NO.5097 OF 2021

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MANOJKUMAR KANAHIYALAL NATHANI VERSUS ZILLA PARISHAD JALGAON AND OTHERS

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Mr. M.V. Navandar and Mr. Sayyad, Advocates for the petitioners. Mr. B.S. Shinde, Advocate for the Caveator.

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CORAM : AVINASH G. GHAROTE, J. DATE : 06-07-2021.

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ORDER :

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Heard Mr. Navandar and Mr. Sayyad, learned Counsel

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for the petitioners. Mr. Shinde appears for the respondents in all the three petitions.

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The present petitions challenge the order dated 25.01.2021, passed by the 2^nd Joint Civil Judge (Junior Division) Jalgaon, below Exh.6 in Contempt Application No. 1 /2020, thereby

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rejecting the application for temporary injunction as filed by the present petitioners before him.

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When the court made a pertinent query to the learned counsels for the petitioners as to how the provisions Order 39 Rule 1 and 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure (“CPC”) are applicable and attracted to proceedings under the Contempt of Courts Act, both the learned Counsel for the petitioners are unable to give satisfactory answer. Mr. Sayyad, learned Counsel for the petitioner invites my attention to Section 94 of the CPC and submits that such a course of action of entertaining an application under Order 39 Rule 1 & 2 of CPC in proceedings for contempt under the Contempt of Courts Act, was permissible in view of Section 94 (c) of CPC. I am unable to accede to his submission as it is wholly withoutment or substance altogether, for the reason that the supplementary proceedings as contemplated under section 94 of the CPC would not take into its compass the proceedings under the Contempt of Courts Act. The argument therefore is rejected.

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There is no provision in the contempt of Courts Act which makes the Code of Civil Procedure and that too the provisions of Order 39 Rule 1 and 2 of the CPC applicable to the proceedings under the Contempt of Courts Act.

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The 2^nd Joint Civil Judge (Junior Division), Jalgaon, therefore, ought not to have entertained the application at Exh. 6 at the outset itself much less, waste his time in deciding the same by rejecting it. The writ petitions challenging the said order are clearly

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not the proceedings which ought to be entertained by this Court, as in my considered opinion they amount to gross abuse of the process of law. The petitions are therefore dismissed.

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I was inclined to dismiss the petition with compensatory costs, however considering the plea of the learned Counsel for the petitioners, that the petitioners are affected by the Covid condition,l refrain from saddling any costs upon them.

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(AVINASH G. GHAROTE)

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Chandulal Prabhudas Udasi v. Zilla Parishad Jalgaon and Others

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