IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Contempt Petition No. 259 of 2007 Vishnu Singh Rautela, a/a 55 years, S/O Sri Raghubar Singh Rautela, Lecturer in Economics, GIC Khairoli, district Pithoragarh. (Petitioner) ....... Applicant. Versus Mr. N.N. Pandey, Director of Education (Secondary Education), Uttarakhand, Dehradun. ... Opposite-Party. Sri Anup Verma, holding brief of Sri C.D. Bahuguna, learned counsel for the applicant. Sri K.P. Upadhyay, learned Addl. Chief Standing Counsel for the O.P.-State Date April 17, 2008. Hon’ble B.S. Verma, J. This contempt petition has been moved for punishing the opposite party for willful disobedience of the order dated 18-08- 2007 passed by this Court in Writ Petition No. 978 (S/S) of 2005 Vishnu Singh Rautela Vs. State of Uttarakhand and others. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record including the counter affidavit filed by the State. The order dated 18-8-2007 passed by this Court in Writ Petition No. 978 of 2005 (S/S) has been challenged before the Division Bench of this Court and the operation of the said order has been stayed by the order dated 12-2-2008 passed in Special Appeal No. 16 of 2008, State of Uttarakhand Vs. Vishnu Singh Rautela. The contempt petition is dismissed in view of the fact that the operation of teh order of which non-compliance has been alleged was stayed in the aforesaid Special Appeal. Notice issued to the respondent is discharged. In the circumstances of the case, the petitioner- applicant may file fresh contempt petition after decision of the Special Appeal No. 16 of 2006, if the cause of action would survive. All pending applications stand disposed of. (B.S. Verma, J.) RCP