Allahabad High Court
DEEPENDRA PRAKASH TIWARIversusSMT. KRITIKA JYOTSANA, D.M. SULTANPUR
- Decided
- Disposal
- DISMISSED AS INFRUCTUOUS
- Bench
- SAURABH LAVANIA
Holding
No contempt was found as the claim had already been decided by the competent authority.
Summary
The applicant, Deependra Prakash Tiwari, filed a civil contempt application alleging that the opposite party, District Magistrate Kritika Jyotsana, had failed to comply with a Writ Court order. The opposite party, through Additional Chief Standing Counsel Shri Sunil Bajpai, produced a written instruction signed by the magistrate indicating that the order had already been complied with by deciding the applicant's claim. The court examined the submission and the contents of the contempt petition and found that the claim had indeed been adjudicated by the competent authority. Consequently, the court held that no contempt had been committed. The contempt application was therefore dismissed.
Issues considered
- Whether the opposite party committed contempt of court by allegedly failing to comply with the Writ Court order
Subjects
- contempt of court
- writ jurisdiction
- compliance
- dismissal
- district magistrate
Judgment
Neutral Citation No. - 2024:AHC-LKO:50142
Court No. - 17
Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 2688 of
2024
Applicant :- Deependra Prakash Tiwari
Opposite Party :- Smt. Kritika Jyotsana, D.M. Sultanpur
Counsel for Applicant :- Rama Kant Dixit,Ram Vishal Tripathi
Hon'ble Rajeev Singh,J.
1. Shri Sunil Bajpai, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel
appearing for opposite party, on the basis of written instructions
duly signed by opposite party- Ms. Kritika Jyotsna, District
Magistrate, Sultanpur, has submitted that the order of Writ
Court has already been complied with by deciding the claim of
the applicant, therefore, the present contempt application may
be dismissed.
2. Copy of the written instruction signed by opposite party- Ms.
Kritika Jyotsna, District Magistrate, Sultanpur, is provided to
the learned counsel for the applicant.
3. Considering the submission of learned Additional Chief
Standing Counsel as well as contents of contempt application,
it is evident that claim of the applicant has already been decided
by the competent authority, therefore, no contempt is made out
against the opposite party.
4. Accordingly, the present contempt application is hereby
dismissed.
5. Consigned to record.
Order Date :- 24.7.2024
V. Sinha
Digitally signed by :-
VAISHALI SINHA
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad,
Lucknow Bench
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