1 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET No. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH AT NAGPUR Contempt Petition No. 128/2007 IN Writ Petition No. 891/2006 (Prakash Babarao Shingane VERSUS Pundlikrao Narayanrao Wath & another) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, Court's or Judge's orders appearances, Court's orders of directions and Registrar's orders - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- Mr. M.M. Agnihotri and Ms. Athalye, counsel for the respondents. CORAM : SMT. VASANTI A. NAIK, J. DATE : APRIL 16, 2008. None appears on behalf of the petitioner. Heard Shri Agnihotri and Ms. Athalye, the learned counsel for the respondents. By this petition, the petitioner seeks initiation of the contempt proceedings against the respondent nos.1 and 2 for non compliance of the order dated 02.04.2007 passed on Civil Application No.1467/2007 in Writ Petition No.891/2006. It is brought to the notice of this Court that though by the order dated 02.04.2007, of which the contempt is alleged to have been committed, was passed by the learned single Judge of this Court in Writ Petition No.891/2006 directing the respondent nos.1 and 2 to comply with the order passed by the School Tribunal and reinstate the petitioner in service, the said order dated 02.04.2007 was set aside by the Division 2 Bench of this Court in Letters Patent Appeal No.233/2007 by the judgment dated 14.01.2008. By the judgment dated 14.01.2008, the order dated 02.04.2007 passed by the learned single Judge of this Court on Civil Application No.1467/2007 was quashed and set aside and in this view of the matter, according to the counsel for the respondents, the proceedings for contempt need to be dropped. It is submitted on behalf of the respondents that since the order dated 02.04.2007 was passed without jurisdiction in view of the pendency of the proceedings before the School Tribunal and since the respondents had filed a Letters Patent No.233/2007 before this Court, the order could not be complied with within a period of six weeks. It is clear from the submissions made on behalf of the respondents that the contempt proceedings against respondents need to be dropped. The contempt petition is, therefore, dismissed. JUDGE APTE