RAJESH PRADHAN Vs. SATYENDRA KUMAR, SENA NAYAK

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS contempt petition has been filed alleging wilful and deliberate violation of the judgment and order of this Court dated 21.3.2006 rendered in writ petition No. 40165 of 1999.

(2.) BEFORE proceeding further, to deal with the matter, it would be appropriate to take note of few orders passed by this Court in this contempt application to indicate that several opportunities were given to the opposite parties since 2006 to comply with the order passed by the writ court. The relevant portions of the orders dated 21.12.2006, 2.2.2007, 19.2.2010, 7.7.2010 and 18.8.2010 are quoted as under:

(3.) BY the aforementioned order, the charges, as indicated herein above, were framed against the opposite party and was granted time to file reply to the said charges on or before 15.10.2010 by serving a copy thereof upon the learned Counsel for the applicant and the matter was posted for today i.e. 22.10.2010 but till date neither any reply has been filed nor has any explanation been given for not filing the said reply within the stipulated period. This conduct on the part of the opposite party itself reflects that he does not want to say any thing in the matter and has accepted the charges framed against him. The only request made by Mr., Ajai Kumar Sharma, who has been engaged by the opposite party as his new counsel at this stage, was for adjournment of the case. However, neither any application nor affidavit to this effect was filed. Besides this, the Contemnor has not shown any sense of remorse or repentance about his conduct.