D.B. CIVIL MISC. CONTEMPT PETITION NO.207/2008 (Vijay Srivastava Vs. Sh. Ashok Gupta & Ors.) DATE OF ORDER : 16.12.2008 HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.M. KAPADIA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEO NARAYAN THANVI Mr. S.N. Trivedi for the petitioner. Mr. Manoj Bhandari for the respondents. Heard learned counsel for the parties. The rejoinder has not been filed despite several opportunities. No further time is granted. Learned counsel for the respondents has drawn our attention towards the order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court dated 05.12.2008, whereby, this court has been asked to dispose of the Review Petition, pending before it, by the end of this year. The Review Petition is already pending and interim order till the decision of the Review Petition has been ordered to be continued. After the judgment of this Court, the respondents have already retrenched the candidates and by the order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court, some of the candidates are continued. -2- Keeping in view the above factual matrix of the case, there remains nothing to continue with this Contempt Petition as no willful disobedience in complying with the judgment dated 05.12.2007 passed by the Division Bench of this Court on the part of the respondents is made out. Accordingly, this Contempt Petition is dismissed and notices issued to the respondents No.1 to 3 are discharged. (DEO NARAYAN THANVI), J. (A.M. KAPADIA), J. ms rathore