IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Contempt Petition No. 80 of 2007 Dr. Bipin Chandra Punetha …Petitioner Versus Sri Arun Kumar Mishra & others …Respondents Sri Bhagwat Singh Mehra, Advocate holding brief of Sri Manoj Tiwari, Advocate for the petitioner Sri M.C. Tiwari, Addl. Chief Standing Counsel for respondents no. 3 to 5 Dated: 05-05-2009 Hon’ble B.C. Kandpal, J. This contempt petition, under Section 12 of Contempt of Courts Act, has been filed by the petitioner for summoning and punishing the opposite parties for willful and deliberate disobedience of the judgment and order dated 04.03.2006 passed by the Division Bench of this Court in Writ Petition No. 260 (S/B) of 2004, Dr. Bipin Chandra Punetha versus State of U.P. and others. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record. The relevant portion of the order dated 04.03.2006 passed by this Court reads as follows: “Keeping in view the facts and circumstances, we direct the State of Uttar Pradesh to clear all the post retrial dues of the petitioner within a period of three months from the date of production of certified copy of this order. With the aforesaid observation, the petition is disposed of finally.” Smt. Manisha Panwar, Secretary, Social Welfare Department, Uttarakhand Government, Dehradun, has filed supplementary counter affidavit and she has stated that she has been arrayed in the contempt petition as respondent no. 3 in her previous capacity as Secretary, Department of Medical, Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of Uttarakhand, Dehradun. The facts have been clarified in paragraph nos. 3 and 4 of supplementary counter affidavit, which read as under: “3. That by way of this supplementary counter affidavit it is being clarified that as per direction of this Hon’ble Court dated 4.3.2006 passed in writ petition no. 260 (S/B) of 2004 it is being submitted that all the remaining balance out of arrear of pension, gratuity of the petitioner now has been cleared of vide sanction letter dated 17.1.2008 of Directorate of Lekha & Hakdari, Uttarakhand, Dehradun. Copy of said sanction letter dated 17.1.2008 is being filed herewith and is marked as Annexure No. S.C.A. 1 to this affidavit. 4. That copy of said letter dated 17.1.2008 has been sent in the office of Chief Medical Surgeon, District Hospital Almora on 24.7.2008 by Senior Treasury Officer, District Almora informing that all the revised post retrial dues amounting to Rs. 1,87,547=00/- has been paid to the petitioner vide Cheque No. UB0476007 dated 31.3.2008. Copy of the said letter dated 24.7.2008 is being filed herewith and is marked as Annexure No. S.C.A. 2 this affidavit.” Perusal of Annexure SCA-1 and Annexure SCA-2 annexed along with supplementary counter affidavit reveals that entire revised post retrial dues has been paid to the petitioner. Under the aforesaid circumstance, I do not find any justification to continue the contempt proceedings against the respondents. Accordingly, contempt petition is dismissed. Notices issued against respondents no. 1 and 3, are hereby discharged. (B.C. Kandpal, J.)