RANJEET DAS Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioners have filed this contempt petition seeking initiation of a proceeding under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 against the contemnors for willful and intentional violation of the order dated 25.07.2018 passed in W.P(S)No.5158 of 2017 and batch cases and for willfully flouting and not honouring their undertaking tendered before this Court in the proceeding of the Contempt Case (Civil) No.781 of 2018 and Contempt Case (Civil) No.789 of 2018 which were disposed of accepting the undertaking tendered by the opposite parties-contemnors.

(2.) The controversy which was ignited on account of termination of Para Teachers who were allegedly wrongly appointed under non-Para Teacher category was set at rest by a decision of the Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court in L.P.A No.186 of 2017 and L.P.A No.191 of 2017.

(3.) The brief facts of the cases in W.P (S) No.5158 of 2017 and batch cases are briefly recorded in paragraph nos.5, 6 and 7 of the order dated 25.07.2018, which are extracted below for a better appreciation of the controversy on the conduct of the contemnors: