IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD FRIDAY, THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY CONTEMPT CASE NO : 670 of 2009 Contempt Case U/s. 10 to 12 of Contempt of Courts Act to punish the Respondents herein for violating, disobeying the Order of the High Court dated 14-05-2008 in W.P.No.10811 of 2008). Between: P.Lakshmana Rao and two others ..... PETITIONERS AND J.Bhanoji Rao and another ..RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:Sri P.Satyanarayana Counsel for the Respondent: AGP for Revenue The Court made the following : ORDER: This Contempt Case is filed alleging wilful disobedience of order dated 14.05.2008 in W.P.No.10811 of 2008. The petitioners, who filed the above mentioned writ petition, claim that when respondent No.1 along with his staff sought to forcibly demolish the houses constructed by the petitioners, they filed the above mentioned writ petition, wherein this Court granted on 14.05.2008, an order of status quo with regard to the properties in occupation of the petitioners. The petitioners alleged that on 18.03.2009, at about 10.00 a.m, respondents 1 and 2 along with their staff came to their houses with bulldozers and demolished the same. The petitioners, therefore, sought for appropriate action against the respondents for the alleged wilful violation of the above mentioned order of this Court. Separate counter-affidavits have been filed by the respondents, wherein they have denied the allegation of violation of this Court’s order. While maintaining that the petitioners were never in possession of the land in dispute, the respondents disputed the authenticity of the photographs filed by the petitioners. As regards the allegation of demolition, it is stated that one Uma Maheshwara Rao, a suspended Police Constable, raised construction with bricks and pillars on the night of 17.03.2009, in land bearing Survey No.336/P, Madhuravada Village, and on coming to know about the same, the respondents got the structure removed on 18.03.2009, and a complaint was also lodged against him. At the hearing, Sri P.Satyanarayana, learned counsel for the petitioners, seriously contended that the respondents have blatantly violated the orders of this Court. As noted above, the respondents have disputed the correctness of the photographs and stated that those photographs do not relate to the disputed site. They have maintained that the petitioners have not raised any structures over the disputed land. The petitioners have not produced any material to show that the structures were in existence prior to the granting of interim order by this Court and that those structures were removed. The photographs filed by the petitioners showing certain debris on site do not by themselves prove the allegation of the petitioners that they relate to the houses raised by them. In view of the above and in the absence of any evidence to show that the respondents have demolished the petitioners’ houses after 14.05.2008, there is no reason for this Court to accept the plea of the petitioners that the respondents have committed deliberate violation of the order of this Court. The Contempt Case is, accordingly, dismissed. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 25th September, 2009 vrn