HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY Contempt Case No.489 of 2010 Date: June 16, 2010 Between: Satvinder Singh, S/o.Sri G.B. Singh, Aged 37 years, Door No.3-5-590/502, Sharada Edifice, Himayatnagar, Hyderabad – 29 … Petitioner And Sri C. Madhukar Raj, The Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (HOFF), Andhra Pradesh, Aranya Bhavan, OPP: RBI, Saifabad, Hyderabad, and three others … Respondents Order: Non-compliance of the order, dated 22-02-2010, passed by this court in W.P.M.P.No.3964 of 2010 in W.P.No.3020 of 2010, by the respondents, is the complaint in this contempt case filed under Sections 10 to 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. By the aforesaid order, this court directed the respondents to release ‘Tata Indica’ vehicle bearing Regn.No.AP-9-BL-9594, which was seized from the petitioner along with connected papers, subject to the petitioner filing an undertaking that he will not alienate or transfer the vehicle to any third party, till appropriate final orders are passed in the writ petition. It is stated that after filing of the present contempt case, the said vehicle was released on 21-04-2010. The third respondent has filed counter affidavit on behalf of the respondents stating that in compliance of the directions of this court, the petitioner has filed the undertaking only on 19-04-2010 and immediately thereafter the vehicle has been released. The order of this court, of which violation is alleged, is dated 22-02-2010, whereby the respondents were directed to release the vehicle of the petitioner subject to his filing an undertaking. A specific averment has been made in the counter affidavit to the effect that the petitioner has filed the undertaking only on 19-04-2010 and immediately thereafter vehicle has been released. Fact remains that the respondents have released the vehicle on 21-04-2010 on the petitioner approaching them with the undertaking only on 19-04-2010. Hence, it cannot be said that the order of this court has been deliberately violated. The contempt case is accordingly closed. _____________________ R. SUBHASH REDDY, J June 16, 2010 MRR