FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGBAD. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office notes, office Memoranda of | coram, appearance, court’s orders | Court’s or Judge’s orders. or directions and Registrar’s orders | CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 325/2008 Ms.Surekha Mahajan,Adv.for petitioner. Shri S.K.Kadam,AGP for R.1. .... CORAM : R.K.DESHPANDE,J. DATE : 18/11/2009. 1] This petition complains about willful disobedience of the order dated 10/12/99 passed in W.P.No. 5773/99 by Division Bench of this Court. The petitioner had filed aforesaid Writ Petition, challenging the order dated 13/10/99, whereby the quota of kerosene allotted to the petitioner of 252 K.L. was reduced to 228 K.L. This Court after hearing the parties, passed an order in the said writ petition, which is reproduced below : Rule. By way of interim stay, the respondents 1 and 2 are hereby directed to maintain quota of the petitioner as was alloted to the petitioner for the period of May to September 1999, with effect from 1/1/2000. 2] The net result of the aforesaid order was that the kerosene quota of the petitioner could not be reduced below 252 K.L. 3] The learned counsel for the petitioner has placed on record orders dated 22/8/08, 1/10/08 and 1/11/08 which are the kerosene supply/distribution orders in which so far as the month of September 2008 is concerned, the supply to the petitioner was shown as 312 K.L. So far as the month of October 2008 is concerned, it is shown as 216 K.L. and so far as the month of November 2008 is concerned, it is shown as 228 K.L. The order of distribution/supply of kerosene referes to the order dated 15/12/99 passed in W.P.No.5773/99. According to the petitioner, this amounts to reducing the kerosene quota of the petitioner below 252 K.L., which is in violence of the order of status quo dated 10/12/1999 reproduced above. 4] In response to the notice issued by this Court, an affidavit in reply has been filed by respondent no.2 dated 27/7/09. In para 6 of the affidavit, the following statement is made " I say and submit that as per the interim order given by Hon'ble High Court on 20/3/09 the respondent nos.2 and 3 have maintained the quota of the petitioner i.e. 252 K.L. since March 2009." 5] Thus, it is undisputed fact that since March 2009 the kerosene quota of the petitioner is maintained to 252 K.L. There may be a change in the supply/distribution of kerosene, it may be below 252 K.L. however, that does not mean that the quota fixed has been reduced. The quota of kerosene remains at 252 K.L. as per the aforesaid affidavit and there is no order placed on record, whereby the quota of the petitioner is reduced below 252 K.L. 6] In view of above, I do not find any substance in the contempt petition. The same is therefore, dismissed. (R.K.DESHPANDE, J.) umg/cp325-08