IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
Cont. (Civil) Case No. 650 of 2006
The Jharkhand Rajya Bhu-Map and Bandobast
Arajpatrit Karmchari Sangh .... ... Petitioner
Versus
The State of Jharkhand & others .... ... Opposite Parties
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CORAM : HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE
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For the Petitioner : Mr. Arvind Kumar Jha, Advocate
For the Opposite Parties : Mr. R. Krishna, Sr. S.C.-I
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10/ 18.4.2009
This petition for contempt has been filed alleging non-compliance of
the order dated 5.8.2006 passed in W.P.(S) No. 450 of 2005, by which the
respondent-contemnors had been directed to grant appropriate pay scale to the
petitioner along with cost of Rs. 5,000/-.
It was informed by the counsel for the respondent-contemnors on
the last date that appropriate pay scale has already been allowed to the petitioner
but the cost has not yet been paid as an appeal has been preferred. It was further
submitted that respondent-contemnors could not gather to whom the cost was to
be deposited, in which I find no substance for when the petition was allowed
along with cost, obviously the cost had to be paid to the petitioner. As there is no
order of stay against the imposition of cost, the cost be also paid to the petitioner
expeditiously.
The contempt petition is, therefore, dismissed partly as infructuous
as the order granting appropriate pay scale has already been allowed but the
contempt petition will be treated as disposed of in so for as the payment of cost is
concerned, provided the same is paid within a period of four weeks from the date
of receipt of a copy of this order. In the meantime, if an order of stay is obtained
by the respondent-contemnors, obviously the direction for payment will remain in
abeyance but in the alternative, it shall be paid to the petitioner.
(Gyan Sudha Misra, C.J.)