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Simanchal Mohapatra v. Aswathy S., IAS

Orissa HC14 Feb 2025CONTC/455/2025

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What is this about?

Contempt petition; non-compliance of order dated 01.05.2024 in W.P.(C) No.10523 of 2024; last opportunity granted; six weeks to comply from service of certified copy; compliance report to Registry within one week; stay by higher forum exception; warning of deliberate violation; High Court of Orissa at Cuttack; Justice Aditya Kumar Mohapatra; CONTC No.455 of 2025; order dated 14.02.2025; disposed.

What did the court decide?

Contempt petition disposed of with direction to the Opposite Parties-Contemnors to comply with the Court's direction dated 01.05.2024 in W.P.(C) No.10523 of 2024 within six weeks of service of a certified copy of this order, and to file a compliance report before the Registry within one week thereafter; non-compliance within the stipulated time to be construed as deliberate violation. ¶20

Simanchal Mohapatra Vs Aswathy S., IAS — Orissa HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

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Issue for consideration

Whether the Opposite Parties-Contemnors violated the direction issued by this Court on 01.05.2024 in W.P.(C) No.10523 of 2024.

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Ratio / Principle

As a last opportunity, the Contempt Petition stands disposed of with a direction to the Opposite Parties-Contemnors to comply with the direction of this Court dated 01.05.2024 in W.P.(C) No.10523 of 2024, if not already complied with.

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Key takeaways

Such compliance is to be effected within a period of six weeks from the date of service of a certified copy of this order by the Petitioners.ratio¶17
The Opposite Parties-Contemnors are to file a compliance report before the Registry of this Court within one week thereafter, provided the operation of the order/judgment has not been stayed by any higher forum.ratio¶19
If the Court's order is not given effect to within the stipulated time, it will be construed to be deliberate violation of this Court's order.ratio

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Contempt — CONTC No.455 of 2025 (High Court of Orissa at Cuttack, Justice Aditya Kumar Mohapatra, order dated 14.02.2025) — Petitioner Simanchal Mohapatra alleged violation of the Court's order dated 01.05.2024 in W.P.(C) No.10523 of 2024 by the Opposite Parties-Contemnors (an IAS officer and two Hospital/Directorate officials) — Court, considering submissions and as a last opportunity, disposed of the contempt petition with a direction to the Contemnors to comply with the said direction of 01.05.2024, if not already complied with, within six weeks from service of a certified copy of the order, subject to the order/judgment not having been stayed by a higher forum, and to file a compliance report before the Registry within one week thereafter — Failure to give effect to the order within the stipulated time was declared liable to be construed as deliberate violation of the Court's order.

Simanchal Mohapatra v. Aswathy S., IAS

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