1 conpet110-10 sas IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CONTEMPT PETITION NO.110 OF 2010 Shree S.P. Jagtap Guruji & Ors.. ..Petitioners. V/s. State of Maharashtra & Anr. ..Respondents. Mr. Uday P. Warunjikar for petitioners. Mr. A.I.I. Patel, A.G.P. for respondent-State. CORAM : SMT. R.S. DALVI, J. DATED : 25TH AUGUST, 2011 P.C. :- 1. The petitioners have alleged contempt by the respondents in compliance of the orders of the Division Bench of this Court dated 6th June, 2008 passed in Writ Petition No.7328 of 2007 with other Writ Petitions. The respondents have adopted a staffing pattern for appointment of school teachers with special scales for conducting 800 disability workshops organized by the State of Maharashtra. However, once that was done that staffing pattern came to be challenged in another Writ Petition by certain teacher who came to be transferred. A status quo order came to be passed by another Division Bench of this 2 conpet110-10 Court in that Writ Petition. The petitioners have not shown whether that status quo order has come to an end. The Government Pleader states that the status quo order continues. 2. In view of the status quo order, the respondents cannot be said to be in contempt as having willfully defaulted in carrying out the orders of the Court. That order of the Court for compliance has been passed as far back as in 2008. Consequently, the order to punish the respondents in contempt cannot be passed in this Writ Petition. However, the petitioners who may be aggrieved by the status quo order may apply in the Writ Petition in which the status quo order is passed for appropriate reliefs. The learned Government Pleader on behalf of the Respondent states that he would agree for order to be passed for expedition of the petition or other appropriate relief in that Petition. The contempt petition is disposed off accordingly. (SMT. R.S. DALVI, J)