V.a.Anand v. Brajendra Navneet, IAS and another
Case brief
What is this about?
Contempt petition closed on account of intervening writ appeal. Madras High Court; CONT.P. No.3033 of 2024; Justice N. Sathish Kumar (single-judge coram); decided 09.12.2025. Petitioner: V.A. Anand (adv. R. Naveen). Respondents: Brajendra Navnit, I.A.S., Secretary to Government, Commercial Taxes and Registration (H2) Department, Tamil Nadu; and Dinesh Ponraj Oliver, Inspector General of Registration (adv. Stalin Abhimanyu, Addl. Govt. Pleader). Basis: Section 11, Contempt of Courts Act; alleged wilful disobedience of order dated 12.09.2023 in W.M.P.No.25869 of 2023 in W.P.No.17040 of 2023. Intervening development: writ appeal filed against that order with interim order in the appeal. Outcome: petition stood closed (disposed) without punishment; no relief granted; no amounts involved.
What did the court decide?
Recording the Additional Government Pleader's submission that a writ appeal has been filed against the order dated 12.09.2023 and that an interim order exists in the writ appeal, this Court closed the Contempt Petition without punishing the respondents or adjudicating the alleged disobedience.