Aniljit Singh Vs N Saravana Kumar & Anr. — Contempt of Court | Delhi HC (2025)

Aniljit Singh Vs N Saravana Kumar & Anr. — Contempt of Court | Delhi HC (2025)

What the court decided

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Outcome

Respondents granted three weeks' time to comply with the directions in the order dated 29.04.2025 in W.P.(C) 5562/2025, compliance to be under intimation to the petitioner; petition and pending applications disposed of; petitioner given liberty to revive the petition if the decision is not taken within three weeks.

Issue for consideration

Whether proceedings for contempt should be initiated against the respondents for alleged wilful disobedience of the directions passed by this Court in its order dated 29.04.2025 in W.P.(C) No.5562/2025 (direction to DDA to dispose of the petitioner's representation dated 07.03.2025 by a speaking order within four weeks).

Court's answer

The Court granted the respondents three weeks' time to comply with the directions passed in the order dated 29.04.2025 in W.P.(C) 5562/2025, the compliance to be done under intimation to the petitioner.

Ratio / Principle

With the above directions, the present contempt petition is disposed of.

Key takeaways

Pending applications, if any, also stand disposed of.ratio¶21
If the decision is not taken within the three weeks' time allowed, the petitioner will be at liberty to revive the present petition.ratio¶22

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Contempt petition (CONT.CAS(C) 1007/2025) by Aniljit Singh under Article 215 of the Constitution of India read with Sections 10, 11 and 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 against N Saravana Kumar & Anr. (DDA), alleging wilful disobedience of the direction dated 29.04.2025 in W.P.(C) 5562/2025 whereby respondent no.1/DDA was required to dispose of the petitioner's representation dated 07.03.2025 within four weeks by a speaking order, to be communicated within two weeks thereafter. The Court did not initiate contempt proceedings; on the respondent's request it allowed three weeks' time to comply with the said directions, directed that compliance be under intimation to the petitioner, disposed of the petition along with pending applications, and reserved to the petitioner the liberty to revive the petition if the decision was not taken within the three-week period. (Amit Sharma, J.; 08.08.2025.)

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

- CONT.CAS(C) 1007/2025

ANILJIT SINGH .....Petitioner

Through: Mr. Gaurav M. Liberhan, Mr. Sumant Vyas, Ms. Akriti Gupta, Mr. Arun Singh Rawat, Advs.

versus

N SARAVANA KUMAR & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Prabhsahay Kaur, SC, Mr. Aditya Verma, Ms. Kavya Shukla, Advs. for DDA. with Mr. Lalit Bidhuri, Kanoongo/LH DDA. for R-1 and 2.

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AMIT SHARMA

O R D E R

% 08.08.2025

This hearing has been done through hybrid mode.

The present petition under Article 215 of the Constitution of India read with Section 10, 11 and 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 seeks the following prayers: -

“a) Take cognizance and initiate proceedings for contempt against the alleged Respondents/ Contemnors and commit the Respondents/ Contemnors to appropriate punishment for wilful disobedience of the Directions/Order passed by this Hon'ble Court in its order dated 29.04.2025 in W. P (C) No.5562/2025. b) Pass any such or further orders as this Hon' ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the present case.”

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that vide order dated 29.04.2025 in W.P.(C) 5562/2025 passed by a Coordinate Bench

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of this Court, the following direction was passed: -

“11. Having regard to the limited relief pressed, the petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondent no.1/DDA to dispose of petitioner's representation dated 07.03.2025(at Annexure P-9) within a period of four weeks by a speaking order. The speaking order so passed may be communicated to the petitioner within a period of two weeks thereafter.”

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondent seeks 3 weeks’ time to comply with the aforesaid directions. Let the same be done under intimation to the petitioner.

With the following directions, the present petition is disposed of.

Pending applications if any also stand disposed of.

In case, if the decision is not taken within 3 weeks’ time, the petitioner will be at liberty to revive the present petition.

AMIT SHARMA, J

AUGUST 8, 2025/ kr/dj

This is a digitally signed order.

The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 18/08/2025 at 11:58:19