GANESH Vs. CHHOTEY LAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) S. P. Mehrotra, J. The present contempt petition has been filed under Sections 10/12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. It is, inter alia, prayed in the contempt petition that the opposite party Nos. 1 to 6 be punished for having committed contempt of this Court by wilful and deliberate disobedience of the stay order dated 24-8-1992 passed by this Court in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. Nil of 1992, Ganesh and others v. Deputy Director Consolidation, Gorakhpur and others.

(2.) A perusal of the averments made in the affidavit accompanying the contempt petition shows that the contempt petition was filed on the ground of the alleged non-compliance of the stay order dated 24-8- 1992 passed in the aforesaid Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. Nil of 1992. Copy of the said stay order dated 24-8-1992 has been filed as Annexure-1 to the affidavit accompanying the contempt petition. The said stay order is quoted below: "issue notice. Till further orders of this Court operation of the impugned order dated 31-7-1992 shall remain stayed. " The present contempt petition was filed on 9-12-1992.

(3.) A perusal of the ordersheet shows that no order was passed thereafter on the contempt petition.