IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Civil Contempt Petition No. 141 of 2005 Mahendra Singh Negi, S/o Sri Vishan Singh, at present working as Watcher, Kaladhungi Raji, Ram Nagar Van Prabhag, Ramnagar. ……Petitioner. Versus 1. Vibha Puri Dass, Principal Secretary, Forest Uttaranchal Dehradun and four others. ….Respondents. Sri M.C. Kandpal, Senior Advocate, assisted Sri S.S. Chaudhary, learned counsel for the petitioner. Sri H.M. Raturi, learned Standing Counsel for the respondents. Date August 10, 2007 Hon’ble B.S. Verma, J. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record including the counter affidavit and affidavit of compliance filed by the respondents. This contempt petition has been moved by the applicant Mahendra Singh Negi for punishing the respondents for flouting the order dated 19-11-2004 passed by this Court in Writ Petition No. 1309 of 2004 (S/S), Bhanu Prakash and others Vs. State of Uttaranchal. The respondent no. 5 has filed affidavit of compliance and has stated in paragraph no. 4 that the order passed by thuis Court has been complied with and the petitioner has already been reinstated vide order dated 2-8-2007 passed by the Divisional Forest Officer, Ramnagar Forest Division, Ramnagar. A copy of order dated 2-8-2007 passed by the D.F.O. Ramnagar has been annexed as Annexure No. 1 to the affidavit of compliance. Sri H.M. Raturi, learned Standing Counsel has submitted that the order of the Court has been complied with and the Officer concerned is also present in the Court. Accordingly, the presence of the Officer concerned is exempted. As the order passed by this court has already been compiled with, the contempt petition is liable to be dismissed. The Contempt petition is dismissed. Notices issued to the respondents are discharged. (B.S.Verma, J.) RCP