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Deivasigamani M v. Anbu Abraham

Madras HC22 Nov 2018CONT P/2448/2018

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What is this about?

This court was approached via a contempt petition alleging willful disobedience of an order in W.P. No. 14654 of 2018. The court found that the respondent had disposed of the representation and communicated the order within the prescribed time limits, thereby exonerating the respondent from contempt charges.

What did the court decide?

Contempt petition closed finding no violation of the previous order.

Deivasigamani M Vs Anbu Abraham — Contempt of Court | Madras HC (2018)

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

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Dated: 22.11.2018

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CORAM

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THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE M.SUNDAR

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CONT.P.No.2448 of 2018

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M.Deivasigamani ..Petitioner
Vs.
Thiru.Anbu Abraham,
Managing Director,
Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Chennai)Ltd,
Pallavan Salai,
Chennai – 600 002.
.. Respondent
This Contempt petition is filed under Section 11 of
Contempt Court Act, 1971, to punish the respondent for
willful disobedience of the order passed by this Hon'ble
Court in W.P.No.14654 of 2018 dated 14.06.2018 as per the
Contempt of Court Act.

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For Plaintiff : Mr.D. Veerasekaran For Defendant : Ms.S.Rajani Ramadass Standing Counsel ORDER

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Mr. D.Veerasekaran, learned counsel on record for petitioner is before this Court.

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This contempt petition has been filed alleging https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/ violation of order dated 14.06.2018 made by this Court in

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WP.No.14654 of 2018, relevant paragraphs are paragraphs 9 and 11 and the same read as follows:

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'9.In the light of the narrative supra, there shall be a direction to respondent No.1 to dispose of the writ petitioner's aforesaid representation dated 23.05.2018, within six

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weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.

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11. Respondent No.1 shall communicate a copy of order disposing of the representation to the writ petitioner within seven working days from the date of such disposal.' 3. Ms.S.Rajani Ramadass, standing counsel for Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Chennai) Limited, was before this Court and learned counsel represented the sole respondent in this contempt petition.

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counsel very fairly pointed out that he has disclosed in

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the contempt petition itself that the representation of the writ petitioner dated 23.05.2018 has been disposed of on 16.07.2018 by the respondent in the contempt petition,

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pursuant to the aforesaid order of this Court. It is also fairly submitted that it has been duly communicated to the petitioner in accordance with paragraph 11 of my order.

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https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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representation vide proceedings dated 16.07.2018, learned counsel for petitioner pointed out that the respondent has not gone into the merits of the matter and has summarily disposed of the representation.

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scope is very limited and it is deemed appropriate to leave it open to the petitioner to challenge the order of respondent by way of separate proceedings in a manner known to law.

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disposal of representation dated 23.05.2018 and communication of a copy of the order disposing the representation to the writ petitioner having been done within the time frames set out in the order in the writ petition, this contempt petition is closed.

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gpa/mp

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COURT OFFICER(O.S.)

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from 25^th day of September 2008 the Registry is issuing Certified copies of the Orders/Judgments/Decrees in this format.

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https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/ PS/03/12/2018

Deivasigamani M v. Anbu Abraham

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