HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE B. SESHASAYANA REDDY CONTEMPT CASE No. 952 OF 2009. DATED 1ST DECEMBER, 2009. BETWEEN Smt. Kummarikunta Mani Sarojini ….petitioner and Sri Niranjan Reddy, Commissioner, Bapatla Municipality, Guntur Dist ….Respondent HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE B. SESHASAYANA REDDY CONTEMPT CASE No. 952 OF 2009. ORDER: This Contempt Case has been ﬁled alleging that the respondent has wilfully and deliberately disobeyed the order of this Court dated 24.10.2008 passed in Writ Petition No. 23246 of 2008. Notice before admission came to be ordered on 17.07.2009. The respondent entered appearance through a Counsel and ﬁled counter aﬃdavit. It is stated in the counter aﬃdavit that the respondent has not ﬂouted the order of this Court dated 24.10.2008 passed in Writ Petition No.23246 of 2008. Paragraph 6 of the Counter affidavit reads as under: “It is submitted that the laying of the roads in the Municipal area are under the purview of Public Health Engineering Department and not in the purview of this respondent. This respondent never ﬂouted any of the orders of this Honourable Court passed in Writ Petition No.23246 of 2008. It is submitted that this respondent never attempted or violated the earlier orders of this Honourable High Court as stated by the petitioner in her aﬃdavit and not liable to be punished under Contempt of Court” Heard the learned Counsel appearing for the parties. The relevant portion of the order passed in Writ Petition No.23246 of 2008 reads as under: “ The learned Standing Counsel, on instructions, reports that the respondent- municipality will follow due process of law in case the petitioner is required to be dispossessed from the land admeasuring Ac.0.68 cents comprising in S.No.1409 of East Bapatla, Gunutr District. In that view of the matter, the Writ Petition is disposed of at the admission stage directing the respondent-municipality to follow the due process of law in case the petitioner is required to be dispossessed from the land admeasuring Ac.0.68 cents comprising in Sy.No.1409 of East Bapatla, Guntur District”. The respondent has speciﬁcally stated in the counter aﬃdavit that at no point of time the order passed by this Court has been violated. The petitioner has not ﬁled any proof to show that the respondent has attempted to dispossess the petitioner from the land claimed to be in his occupation without following due process of law. In that view of the matter, I ﬁnd that the Contempt Case is devoid of merits and accordingly the same is dismissed. No costs. ----------------------------------------------------- JUSTICE B. SESHASAYANA REDDY DATED 1ST DECEMBER, 2009. Msnr.