Chotta Devi W/O Shri Bal Chand v. Praveen Gupta, State of Rajasthan through Principal Secretary
Case brief
What is this about?
Rajasthan High Court (Jaipur Bench), S.B. Civil Contempt Petition No. 769/2024, decided 18/09/2025 by Ganesh Ram Meena, J. Petitioner Chotta Devi sought contempt action against PWD officials (Praveen Gupta, Manoj Dave, Sanjeet Kumar, Hotilal, Ramkisore Meena, Kalpana Agarwal) and the State of Rajasthan for alleged non-compliance of the interim order dated 16.07.2024 restraining demolition of her house. Petition dismissed: no specific dates or material allegations of disobedience were stated, and no contempt proceedings can be drawn without such allegations. Counsel: Anirudh Singh/S.S. Raghav for petitioner; Yash Joshi, Tanvisha Pant, Vigyan Shah (AAG) for respondents.
What did the court decide?
On perusal of the averments in the contempt petition, the petitioner has nowhere stated that after passing of the interim order, on which date the respondents came to her house and demolished it; nor had she stated such dates by the filing date of 08.08.2024.