WASI HAIDER Vs. M MENZED

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is an application under the Contempt of Courts Act. The prayer is to punish the opposite parties, who are officers of the Northern Railway, on the ground that they have disobeyed the judgment dated 12-3-79 of a Division Bench of this Court.

(2.) THE circumstances in which the application has been filed may be stated briefly. Writ petitions No. 626 of 1971, 443 of 1970 and 1046 of 1970 were filed by Sardar Husain (since dead and now represented by his heirs), Bhagwati Prasad Pandey and Ram Kumar Dubey respectively. THEy were decided by a common judgment on 7-11-74 by an Hon'ble Single Judge, Hon'ble Mr. Justice O. P. Trivedi.

(3.) THE matter figured before a Division Bench of the Court consisting of Hon'ble U. C. Srivastava and Hon'ble K. N. Goyal, JJ. in the form of 3 special appeals filed by the Union of India in the 3 petitions and 2 special appeals filed by Bhagwati Prasad Pandey and Ram Kumar Dubey. In addition thereto, the writ petitions filed in the year 1975 by the applicants, other than the three petitioners referred to above, also came up for hearing before that Division Bench. Judgment of the Division Bench was rendered on 12-3-79. THE matter in all the appeals and writ petitions under consideration of the Division Bench was stated at page 9 of the copy of judgment as follows :-