Capl/3184/2023 Of Vivek Saxena v. Ashish Verma, Chief Income Tax

Court No. - 7 Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 3184 of 2023 Applicant :- Vivek Saxena Opposite Party :- Ashish Verma, Chief Income TaxCounsel for Applicant :- Nirbhay Kumar Bharti Hon'ble Rohit Ranjan Agarwal,J. Heard learned counsel for the applicant. The present contempt application has been filed under Section 12of the Contempt of Courts Act for punishing the Opposite Party forwillful disobedience of the judgment and order dated 01.12.2022passed by this Court in Writ Petition No. 16848 of 2022. It is contended that applicant had approached writ Court throughaforesaid writ petition, which was disposed of vide order dated01.12.2022. Copy of the order of writ Court was served uponopposite party through registered post on 23.12.2022, butaccording to the applicant, the said order has not been compliedwith by the opposite party till date. Prima facie, a case has been made out for punishing the oppositeparty for willful disobedience of the judgment and order passed inthe aforesaid writ petition. However, no notice is issued to the opposite party at this stage.The opposite party is granted three months’ further time to complywith the order dated 01.12.2022 passed by this Court in WritPetition No. 16848 of 2022 from the date of production of acertified copy of this order. The applicant shall supply a duly stamped registered envelopeaddressed to the opposite party and another self-addressedenvelope to the office within two weeks from today. The office shall send a copy of this order along with the self-addressedenvelope of the applicant with a copy of contempt application tothe opposite party within one week thereafter and keep a recordthereof. The opposite party shall comply with the directions of the writcourt and intimate the applicant the order through the self-addressed envelop within a week thereafter. In case, the opposite party does not comply with the order, itwould be open to the applicant to approach this court again. With the aforesaid observations, this application is finally disposedof at this stage. Order Date :- 26.4.2023 V.S.Singh