Siddhartha Mukherjee v. Shri Vikas Kaushal and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Civil contempt petition dismissed — CONT.CAS(C) 786/2026, Delhi High Court, Amit Sharma, J., 11.05.2026. Petitioner Siddhartha Mukherjee (in person) sought initiation of proceedings under Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 read with Article 215 of the Constitution of India, 1950 against respondents Shri Vikas Kaushal and Anr. (counsel: Priyanka Das) for non-compliance with order dated 18.09.2019 in W.P.(C) 4928/2019 directing affidavit of reasons for withholding/deduction of salary from April 2019. Compliance record: order dated 24.11.2022 taking respondents' explanatory application on record; writ petition disposed 18.08.2023; petitioner's LPA and SLP dismissed; similar application CM NO. 14726/2026 dismissed 11.03.2026. Held: no ground to initiate proceedings under Section 12; petition dismissed and disposed; pending applications disposed.
What did the court decide?
No ground exists to initiate any proceedings under Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971: the subsequent course of the underlying writ petition — the respondents' explanatory application taken on record by order dated 24.11.2022, disposal of the writ petition on 18.08.2023 with the petitioner's LPA and SLP having been dismissed, and dismissal of the petitioner's similar application CM NO. 14726/2026 on 11.03.2026 — leaves no basis for contempt proceedings.