COCP No. 1457 of 2011 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH COCP No. 1457 of 2011 Date of Decision: 26.9.2011 Joga Singh ....Petitioner. Versus Sh. M.R. Aggarwal ...Respondent. CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY KUMAR MITTAL. PRESENT: Mr. Harinder Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. G.S. Cheema, Senior DAG, Punjab. AJAY KUMAR MITTAL, J. In this petition filed under Sections 10 and 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, the petitioner has prayed for initiation of action against the respondent for deliberately and wilfully violation of the order dated 5.10.2010 passed by this Court in CWP No. 18049 of 2010 wherein the respondent was directed to maintain status quo as on date. The grievance of the petitioner is that after the aforesaid directions had been issued by this Court with regard to the maintenance of status quo in respect of seniority list, the respondent vide circular dated 23.5.2011 had issued a fresh tentative seniority list whereby the previous seniority list was upset and the petitioner was shown below the candidates promoted from the ministerial staff. According to the petitioner, this amounted to violation of Court's direction and the COCP No. 1457 of 2011 -2- respondent was guilty of Contempt of Courts Act. Upon notice of motion having been issued, reply by way of affidavit of the respondent has been filed and a copy thereof has been given to the learned counsel for the petitioner. In paras 5 to 8 of the reply, it has been stated that the directions of this Court were wrongly conveyed by the concerned Superintendent to the Director General of Police (Prisons), Punjab, on the basis of which this anomaly has arisen. It has further been stated that the tentative seniority list has since been withdrawn and action has been initiated against the concerned Superintendent for conveying wrong directions to the Director General of Police (Prisons), Punjab. Paras 5 to 8 of the reply read thus:- “5. That the Office Superintendent conveyed wrong directions to Director General of Police (Prisons), Punjab i.e. to circulate this table amongst the officers prepared on the basis of the 4:3:1 ratio as mentioned in para 4 as tentative seniority for seeking objections. 6. That as soon as it came to the notice of competent authority in respect of wrong directions conveyed to Director General of Police (Prisons), Punjab for circulating the tentative seniority, it was ordered to withdraw the same immediately. 7. That the Director General of Police (Prisons), Punjab, withdrew the tentative seniority circulated by him. 8. That the disciplinary action has been initiated against the concerned Superintendent for conveying wrong directions to the Director General of Police (Prisons) to COCP No. 1457 of 2011 -3- circulate the tentative seniority list.” In view of the above, no further orders are called for and the present contempt petition stands disposed of. September 26, 2011 (AJAY KUMAR MITTAL) gbs JUDGE