Contempt proceedings filed under the Contempt of Courts Act and Article 215 were dropped by the Hon'ble Single Judge upon the petitioner's prayer to withdraw, granting liberty to take appropriate steps in the appropriate forum.
Contest proceedings dropped with liberty to take appropriate steps in appropriate forum.
This page shows the compact analysis of this judgement. The full analysis — procedural history, issue-by-issue holdings with ratio and obiter, advocates, and paragraph-level evidence for every claim — is being added to the record in batches and will appear here when this judgement has been through it.
1
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU
DATED THIS THE 2ND DAY OF MARCH, 2020
PRESENT
THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ARAVIND KUMAR
AND
THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT CHANDANGOUDAR
C.C.C. No.1841/2019 (CIVIL)
BETWEEN:
... COMPLAINANTS
(BY SRI. BHADRINATH R, ADVOCATE)
AND:
2
AGED: MAJOR PRINCIPAL SECRETARY THE STATE OF KARNATAKA REVENUE DEPARTMENT M.S. BUILDING BENGALURU- 560 001.
2 . SRI. KARI GOWDA AGED MAJOR THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER BENGALURU RURAL DISTRICT 1ST FLOOR, BEERASANDRA VILLAGE, DEVANAHALLI TALUK – 562 110 BENGALURU RURAL DISTRICT.
3 . SRI. MANJUNATH AGED MAJOR THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER DODDABALLAPURA SUB-DIVISION DODDABALLAPURA – 561 203 BENGALURU RURAL DISTRICT.
4 . SRI. RAJANNA AGED MAJOR THE TAHSILDAR DEVANAHALLI TALUK – 562 110 DEVANAHALLI TOWN BENGALURU RURAL DISTRICT.
…RESPONDENTS/ACCUSED
THIS CCC IS FILED UNDER SECTIONS 11 AND 12 OF THE CONTEMPT OF COURTS ACT, 1971 READ WITH ARTICLE 215 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA PRAYING TO INITIATE CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE ACCUSE HEREIN FOR HAVING WILLFUL VIOLATION AND DELIBERATELY DISOBEDIENCE THE ORDER/DIRECTION ISSUED BY THIS HON’BLE COURT IN ORDER DATED:05.08.2019 IN W.P.NO.31518-31521/2019 PASSED BY THE LEARNED SINGLE JUDGE OF THIS HON’BLE COURT AS FOUND AT ANNEXURE-B AND PUNISH THE ACCUSED NO.1 TO 4 IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW AND FURTHER DIRECT THE ACCUSED TO COMPLY WITH THE
3
SAID DIRECTION ISSUED BY THIS HON’BLE COURT AND TO AWARD COSTS OF THIS PROCEEDINGS.
THIS CCC COMING ON FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING THIS DAY, ARAVIND KUMAR J, MADE THE FOLLOWING:
O R D E R
Learned counsel appearing for complainants seeks leave of the Court to withdraw the contempt proceedings with liberty to take appropriate steps in appropriate forum. Memo is filed to the said effect and same is placed on record.
Accordingly, contempt proceedings are dropped
and liberty as sought for is granted.
SD/JUDGE SD/JUDGE
RU
1 issue framed by the court
Whether the contempt petitioner should be allowed to withdraw the proceedings with liberty to approach an appropriate forum.
2 provisions across 2 enactments
Sri G.N. Prakash S/o Late Ganachari Nanjappa
Smt. Veda W/o Shivakumar
Sri. G.N. Keshava S/o Late Ganachari Nanjappa
Sri. G.N. Ravi S/o Late Ganachari Nanjappa
Sri. Vijaya Bhaskar
Major Principal Secretary The State Of Karnataka
Aravind Kumar
Hemant Chandangoou Dar
As recorded by the court registry
Judgements on the same questions, provisions and authorities, from every court
