The Correspondent-cum-Secretary v. Dr. P.Victoria Thangam
Case brief
What is this about?
Madras High Court (Madurai Bench), decided 14.11.2025 by K. Kumaresh Babu, J.; CONT P(MD) No.2760 of 2025 in WP(MD) No.12534 of 2025. Keywords: contempt petition closed; compliance recorded; Section 11 Contempt of Courts Act; willful disobedience; order dated 29.04.2025; payment made 07.11.2025 to petitioner's account; Joint Director of Collegiate Education, Tirunelveli; Women's Christian College, Nagercoil. Relevance: records closure of a contempt petition after full compliance (monetary payment) with the underlying writ order was submitted and acknowledged; no precedent value; useful for tracing the compliance trail arising from WP(MD) No.12534 of 2025.
What did the court decide?
Recording the Additional Government Pleader's submission that the order dated 29.04.2025 in WP(MD) No.12534 of 2025 had been complied with on 07.11.2025 by payment credited to the petitioner's account, together with the petitioner's counsel's acknowledgment of receipt of the payment, the Court closed the contempt petition.