IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU AND THE HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR CONTEMPT APPEAL NO.4 OF 2010 DATED:27.9.2010 Between: Sri P.V.G.D. Prasada Reddy and another … Appellants And Dr. M. Satyanarayana and another … Respondents THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU AND THE HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR CONTEMPT APPEAL NO.4 OF 2010 JUDGMENT: (per the Hon’ble the Chief Justice Shri Nisar Ahmad Kakru) Direction passed by the learned single Judge requiring the appellants herein to appear in person is sought to be assailed by medium of appeal filed under Section 19 of the Contempt of Courts Act which provides appeal against an order of punishment, whereas fact remains that no order of punishment is passed against the appellants. In that view of the matter, the learned counsel for the respondent No.1 has placed reliance on paragraph -11 of the judgment of the Apex Court i n Midnapore Peoples’ Cooperative Bank Ltd. v. Chunilal Nanda[1] to contend non-maintainability of appeal, operative portion whereof may be extracted: “…. An appeal under section 19 is maintainable only against an order or decision of the High Court passed in exercise of its jurisdiction to punish for contempt, that is, an order imposing punishment for contempt.” In view of the mandate of the judgment, the appeal is not maintainable. Dismissed. VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J NISAR AHMAD KAKRU, CJ 27-9-2010 B. Narsinga Rao [1] AIR 2006 SC 2190 (1)