Bombay High Court

VAIBHAV V NAWADKARversusVASANTRAO BHAGWANRAO SUWARNAKAR AND ORS

Disposal: DISPOSED OFF

Holding

The contempt petition was disposed of because the writ petition, and thus the alleged contempt order, had been fully disposed.

Summary

Vasantrao Bhagwanrao Suwarnakar filed a contempt petition alleging that an interim order passed in his writ petition (WP/525/2007) was being disobeyed. The High Court noted that the main writ petition had already been disposed on 24 June 2008, leaving no operative order to be contravened. Consequently, the court held that there was nothing left to sustain the contempt proceeding. The contempt petition was therefore disposed of. Any pending civil applications linked to the contempt petition were also ordered to stand disposed.

Issues considered

Whether a contempt petition can survive after the disposal of the substantive writ petition from which the alleged contempt order arose

Subjects

contempt of court
writ petition disposal
interim order
civil application
jurisdiction

Judgment

2026:BHC-AUG:43134

                                                                         344.2010CP

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                       IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
                                  BENCH AT AURANGABAD

                         6 CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 344 OF 2010
                                     IN WP/525/2007
                             Vasantrao Bhagwanrao Suwarnakar
                                          VERSUS
                 Shivram Rajaram Mistri L.rs. Lingamma Shivram Mistri and
                                           others
                                             ...
                 Mr.G.A. Kulkarn, AGP for Respondent/State
                                             ...
                                           WITH
                          CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 9590 OF 2011
                                      IN CP/344/2010
                                           WITH
                          CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 10283 OF 2011
                                      IN CP/344/2010

                                       CORAM :       VAISHALI PATIL-JADHAV,J.
                                       DATE  :       21.09.2026

                 P.C. :
                 1.          None for the petitioner.
                 2.          The order of which contempt is alleged was an
                 interim order passed in Writ Petition.
                 3.          Subsequently, the main Writ Petition has itself
                 been disposed of by this Court on 24.06.2008.
                 4.          In view of disposal of the writ petition itself,
                 nothing survives in the contempt petition and the same
                 stands disposed of.
                 5.        Pending Civil Applications, if any stand disposed of.




                                                [VAISHALI PATIL-JADHAV]
                                                         JUDGE
                 sga

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