Allahabad High Court
M/S. PRASOON KUMAR AND ANOTHERversusMAHENDRA PRASAD, EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, ELECTRICITY URBAN DISTRIBUTION DIVISION, PURVANCHAL VIDYUT VIT
- Decided
- Bench
- ROHIT RANJAN AGARWAL
Holding
The contempt application is dismissed as infructuous because the writ court’s order was complied with.
Summary
The writ court ordered the opposite party, an executive engineer of a electricity distribution company, to correct an electricity bill dated 12‑12‑2023. The opposite party filed a compliance affidavit on 5‑May‑2025 stating that the corrected bill had been issued and attached the corrected bill and the applicant’s affidavit. The applicant then filed a contempt application alleging non‑compliance. The court examined the compliance affidavit and found that the order had indeed been complied with. Consequently, the contempt application was deemed infructuous and was dismissed, with the contempt notice discharged.
Issues considered
- Whether the contempt application is maintainable when the order of the writ court has been complied with.
Subjects
- contempt of court
- writ compliance
- electricity bill correction
- High Court of Allahabad
- dismissal
Judgment
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 1328 of 2025
M/S. Prasoon Kumar And Another
.....Applicant(s)
Versus
Mahendra Prasad, Executive Engineer, Electricity
Urban Distribution Division, Purvanchal Vidyut
Vitaran Nigam Ltd., Tagore Town And Another .....Opposite
Party(s)
Counsel for Applicant(s) : P.K. Upadhyay
Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : Manoj Kumar Srivastava
Court No. - 9
HON'BLE ROHIT RANJAN AGARWAL, J.
1. The writ Court had required the opposite party for correction of
electricity bill dated 12.12.2023.
2. In the compliance affidavit filed by the opposite party on 5.5.2025 it
has been stated that the order of writ Court has been complied with and
corrected bill has been issued to the applicant and applicant has also filed
an affidavit, copy of corrected bill and affidavit of applicant have been
appended as annexure Nos. 1and 2 to the compliance affidavit.
3. As the order of writ Court has been complied by the opposite party,
contempt application has rendered infructuous and same stands dismissed.
Contempt notice stands discharged.
(Rohit Ranjan Agarwal,J.)
April 10, 2026
Shekhar
Digitally signed by :-
SHASHI SHEKHAR PANDEY
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad
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