THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CONTEMPT CASE No.1536 of 2009 17th September 2010 Between: Ch. Venkateswarlu …PETITIONER(S) and Sri Guru Vara Kumar, the Additional Executive Officer, National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Tallur, Prakasam District and others …RESPONDENT(S) THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CONTEMPT CASE No.1536 of 2009 ORDER: The petitioner herein filed W.P.No.14811 of 2009 seeking a direction in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the inaction of respondent Nos.1 and 2 in considering his case for appointment as Field Assistant of Ramabhadrapuram Gram Panchayat, Tallur Mandalds, prakasam District, under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, as arbitrary and illegal. When the matter came up for hearing, this Court, while admitting the Writ Petition, passed interim direction in W.P.M.P.No.19442 of 2009 on 24.07.2009 to the respondent Nos.1 and 2 to consider the case of the petitioner for appointment as a Field Assistant in the light of the resolution passed and recommendation made unanimously by the Gram Panchayat. This Contempt Case is filed complaining wilful disobedience of the said order by the respondent Nos.1 and 2. Both respondent Nos.1 and 2 filed Counter affidavits stating that the Government imposed a ban on appointments of field assistants on 08.05.2008 and as such the said order could not be complied with. In the light of the averments made in the counter affidavits, this Court directed the learned counsel for petitioner to obtain instructions as to whether anybody was appointed in between 01.08.2009 and 19.08.2009. Today, the learned counsel for petitioner, on instructions, submitted that no such appointments have been made. Therefore, it is clear that, in the light of the ban imposed by the Government on 08.05.2008, the order of this Court dated 24.07.2009 could not be acted upon and the Contempt Case is devoid of merits. The Contempt Case is, accordingly, closed. _______________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA,J 17th September 2010 CVRK