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Kuldeep Singh v. P.C. Meena, IAS

Punjab & Haryana HC13 Aug 2025COCP/568/2024

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What is this about?

COCP-568-2024; contempt of court; willful disobedience; Writ Court order 22.09.2023; consequential benefits; deemed date promotion; re-fixation of allowances; arrears; Annexure P-2 dated 17.10.2023; pay and allowances for period not actually worked; Nand Kishore vs. Mohammad Shayin COCP No.114 of 2022 distinguished; LPA Bench clarification; liberty to avail appropriate remedy; Kuldeep Singh v. P.C. Meena, IAS; Punjab and Haryana High Court; Pankaj Jain J.; petition disposed.

What did the court decide?

Liberty to avail appropriate remedy in accordance with law against the order passed by the respondent; no further order passed in the contempt petition. ¶26

Kuldeep Singh Vs P.C. Meena, IAS — Punjab & Haryana HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

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Outcome

Liberty to avail appropriate remedy in accordance with law against the order passed by the respondent; no further order passed in the contempt petition.

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Issue for consideration

Whether the respondents' order dated 17.10.2023 (Annexure P-2) withholding pay and allowances for the period not actually worked constitutes willful disobedience of the Writ Court order dated 22.09.2023 directing release of all consequential benefits. +1 more

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Ratio / Principle

The coordinate bench order in Nand Kishore was passed because the LPA Bench had clarified that the petitioners there would not be made to suffer for the fault of the respondents; no such observation was made by the Writ Court in the present case, therefore no further order is required to be passed in this contempt petition.

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Key takeaways

The petitioner is granted liberty to avail appropriate remedy in accordance with law against the order passed by the respondent (Annexure P-2 dated 17.10.2023).ratio¶25

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Contempt petition (COCP-568-2024, Punjab & Haryana High Court, decided 13.08.2025, Pankaj Jain, J.) by Kuldeep Singh alleging willful disobedience of the Writ Court order dated 22.09.2023, which had directed release of all consequential benefits (deemed date promotion, re-fixation of allowances, arrears) within two months. Instead, the respondents passed Annexure P-2 dated 17.10.2023 holding the petitioner not entitled to pay and allowances for the period he had not actually worked. Counsel sought striking down of that condition, relying on the coordinate bench order dated 12.03.2024 in COCP No.114 of 2022 (Nand Kishore and another vs. Mohammad Shayin, IAS and another). Held: the Nand Kishore order rested on an LPA Bench clarification that its petitioners would not suffer for the respondents' fault; no such observation exists in the present case; hence no further order was called for, and the petitioner was granted liberty to challenge the respondents' order through appropriate remedy in accordance with law. Petition disposed of.

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COCP-568-2024

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

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COCP-568-2024 Date of decision : 13.08.2025

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Kuldeep Singh

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...... Petitioner

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versus

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P.C. Meena, IAS

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...... Respondent

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CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PANKAJ JAIN

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Present: Mr. Surveen Chaudhary, Advocate and Mr. Rahul Deswal, Advocate for the petitioner.

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Mr. Hitesh Pandit, Advocate for the respondents.

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PANKAJ JAIN, J. (Oral)

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By way of present petition, the petitioner alleges willful disobedience of the order dated 22.09.2023 passed by Writ Court observing as under:-

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“However, it is further made clear that all consequential benefits arising on that account including the deemed date promotion, re-fixation of allowances, arrears, whatsoever, if any, due to the petitioner in accordance with law shall be released forthwith, within a period of two months of from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order.”

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Pursuant to the order, the respondents have passed order

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Annexure P-2 dated 17.10.2023, holding that the petitioner is not entitled for pay and allowances for the period he has not actually worked.

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Counsel for the petitioner submit that the Contempt Court

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would be within its jurisdiction to strike down such condition as the

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DINESH KUMAR 2025.08.22 18:03 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document

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COCP-568-2024

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same is in teeth of the settled proposition of law. In order to hammerforth his contention, he relies upon order dated 12.02.2024 passed by Coordinate Bench in COCP No.114 of 2022 titled as ‘Nand Kishore and another vs. Mohammad Shayin, IAS and another’ dated 12.03.2024.

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I have heard counsel for the petitioner and have carefully gone through the records of the case.

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In the order dated 12.03.2024 passed in Nand Kishore’s case (supra) , the Court observed that the LPA Bench clarified that the petitioners would not be made to suffer because of the fault of the respondents. It is in the said circumstances that the order was passed. In the present case, there is no such observation made by Writ Court. In view of above, no further order is required to be passed. However, the petitioner is granted liberty to avail appropriate remedy in accordance with law against the order passed by the respondent.

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Consequently, the preset petition is disposed off.

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	(PANKAJ JAIN) JUDGE
13.08.2025
Dinesh
	Whether speaking/reasoned : Yes
	Whether Reportable : No

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DINESH KUMAR 2025.08.22 18:03 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document

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