IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD FRIDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR CONTEMPT CASE No:513 of 2009 (Contempt Case U/s. 10 to 12 of Contempt of Courts Act to punish the Respondents herein for violating, disobeying the Order of the High Court dated 29.12.2008 in WP.No.28407 of 2008. BETWEEN: Sri Rambagh Shankaraiah and four others. ... PETITIONERS AND Sri Dana Kishore, District Collector, Ranga Reddy District, Office at Lakdikapul, Hyderabad and three others. ...RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: MR. VIJAY B. PAROPKARI Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following: ORDER: This contempt case is filed complaining of non-compliance of order of this Court in WP.No.28407 of 2008 dated 29.12.2008. 2. By the aforesaid order, the first respondent was directed to consider and dispose of the petitioners’ application within a period of two months. 3. Now a counter affidavit has been filed by the first respondent mentioning that he has received the copy of the order of this Court on 24.02.2009 and thereafter, has heard and disposed of the revision vide order No.D5/3287/2008 dated 02.09.2009. 4. However, the said disposal is beyond the two months time fixed by this Court and the reason for the delay has been mentioned as non-availability of revenue staff, which was deputed for General Elections to the Parliament as well as the State Legislature and an unconditional apology for the delay is tendered. 5. In view of the fact that the order has been complied with, though belatedly and the reasons for the delay as mentioned in the counter affidavit are not contraverted, the same is accepted and the contempt proceedings are dropped. The contempt case is accordingly closed. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________ VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J October 9, 2009 DSK