Kurapati Bhagath Kumar vs Sri G.Anantha Ramu,Ias on 23 January, 2025

Andhra Pradesh High Court – Amravati

Kurapati Bhagath Kumar vs Sri G.Anantha Ramu,Ias on 23 January, 2025

       HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATHI

                CONTEMPT CASE No.1400 of 2024
                         PROCEEDING SHEET

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08. 23.01.2025 RC,J
                                    I.A.No.3 of 2024
                      For the reasons stated in the accompanying
              affidavit and as no objection has been raised by
              the     other   side,   this   application   is    ordered
              permitting the petitioner to implead the proposed
              respondent as respondent No.6.

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RC, J

I.A.No.4 of 2024
Sri Y.Sudhakar, learned counsel for the
petitioner/respondent No.3 contended that the
petitioner was wrongly made party as contemnor
in this Contempt and he was retired from service
on 31.08.2023 and the order of this Court
disobedience of which is complained of in the
contempt was passed on 01.09.2023 in
W.P.No.19384 of 2023. Without even verifying the
same, the petitioner made him as contemnor for
which he has to go through a lot of mental agony
and unnecessary expenditure. In view of the
same, prayed to discharge him from the contempt. Contd…

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Sri Peddi Vijay Bhaskar, learned counsel for
the petitioner submitted that inadvertently he
made respondent No.3 as contemnor and the
same is neither willful nor wanton, accordingly,
prayed to pass orders.

A perusal of the record would indicate that
respondent No.3 got retired from his service on
31.08.2023 wherein this Court passed orders in
W.P.No.19384 of 2023 on 01.09.2023. The
parties without even knowing the persons who
have violated the odrers, are impleading them as
party contemnors so casually. As rightly
contended by the learned counsel for the
petitioner herein/respondent No.3 that, it not only
cause agony but also incurr huge expenditure.

For the reasons referred supra, this Court is
inclined to order this application discharging
respondent No.3 from the contempt.

The petitioner shall pay costs of Rs.2,000/-
to respondent No.3 within a period of four (04)
weeks from today.

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RC, J
C.C.No.1400 of 2024
Registry is directed to carryout necessary
amendments to the cause title.

Post on 20.02.2025.

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RC, J
RKS
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