IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Contempt Petition No. 20 of 2008 Raj Kumar Sharma, S/O Sri Ghasitu Ram, R/O M-8, Irrigation Research Institute Colony, Roorkee, District-Haridwar. …… Petitioner. Versus Sri Shatrughan Singh, I.A.S., Secretary, Irrigation Department, Government of Uttarakhand, Dehradun. … Opposite Party. Sri Ravi Joshi, holding brief of Sri Manoj Tiwai, learned counsel for the petitioner. Sri K.P.Upadhyay, Additional C.S.C. learned counsel for the opposite party. Date June 20, 2008. Hon’ble B.S.Verma, J. Sri Ravi Joshi, holding brief of Sri Manoj Tiwari, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri K.P.Upadhyay, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the opposite party. This contempt petition has been moved to punish the opposite party for deliberate disobedience of this Court’s order dated 8-3-2007 passed in Writ Petition No. 833 (S/S) of 2005, Raj Kumar Sharma and others Vs. State of Uttarakhand and others. The writ petition No. 833(S/S) of 2005 was finally disposed of with the following direction:- “Accordingly, I direct the respondent no. 1 to take decision on the recommendations of Chief Engineer Level-I (Head of the Department), Irrigation Department, Uttarakhand dated 10th December 2004 within a period of two months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order.” Affidavit of compliance has been filed by the opposite party Sri Shatrughna Singh, Secretary, Irrigation Department, Government of Uttarakhand, Dehradun. In paragraph 4, it has 2 been stated that “in compliance of the direction of this Hon’ble Court referred above an order dated 17-3-2008 was passed whereby the claim of the petitioner for granting him pay scale equivalent to the Mistries serving in Tubewells was rejected.” A copy of the order dated 17-3-2008 passed by the Chief Engineer and Head of the Department, Irrigation Department, Uttarakhand, Dehradun, has been annexed as Annexure 1 to the affidavit, wherein it has been mentioned that the pay-scale of Rs. 4000-6000 is not admissible to any other Mistries except the tube-well Mistries of the Irrigation Department. The prayer of the petitioner was rejected. I have perused the entire record. The order dated 8-3- 2007 passed by this Court in Writ Petition No. 833 (S/S) of 2005 had been complied with, as is evident from the order dated 17-3- 2008 referred to above. The contempt petition is dismissed. Notice issued to the opposite party is discharged. All pending applications stand disposed of. ( B.S.Verma, J. ) RCP 3 4