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Gauhati High Court, Cont.Cas(C)/514/2023, decided 20.03.2026 by Justice Arun Dev Choudhury. Petitioners: Monoj Saikia and 14 others; Respondents: Narayan Konwar, IAS (Commissioner and Secretary to the Government of Assam, Elementary Education Department) and Smt. Suranjana Senapati, ACS (Director of Elementary Education, Assam). Contempt petition alleging non-compliance of the order dated 31.05.2023 in WP(C) No. 3054/2023, which had disposed of the writ petition in terms of paragraph 33 of the judgment & order (oral) dated 21.06.2022 in WP(C) 1040/2022 and connected cases concerning rationalisation of marks in the UGC-based selection process and Article 14. Held: paragraph 33 was an observation/passing comment, not a direction or writ; contempt petition not maintainable; petition closed (mapped as dismissed). Statute referred: Article 14 of the Constitution of India. No precedent cases cited.