1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JAIPUR BENCH, JAIPUR O R D E R S.B. CIVIL CONTEMPT PETITION No.999/2009 in S.B. CIVIL WRIT PETITION No.74/2004 Mohd. Hanif v/s Shri C.K. Mathew & Ors. DATE OF ORDER ::: NOVEMBER 11, 2009 P R E S E N T HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NARENDRA KUMAR JAIN Shri Anand Sharma, for the petitioner. BY THE COURT : Heard learned counsel for the petitioner. The petitioner has preferred this contempt petition before this court on 11.5.2006 for disobedience of the order of this court dated 4.2.2005 whereby the respondents were directed to pass fresh orders for re-fixation, if required, and for payment of arrears, within 30 days. As per Section 20 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, it is prescribed that no court shall initiate any proceedings of contempt, either on its own motion or otherwise, after the expiry of a period of one year from the date on which the contempt is alleged to have been committed. 2 The submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that in similar matters the State had preferred special appeal before the Division Bench but he admits that no special appeal was preferred in the present matter. The compliance was to be made within 30 days from the date of receipt of copy of order. Therefore, even if 30 days' period is excluded after 4.2.2005, the present petition was preferred after expiry of period of one year. It is also relevant to mention that this contempt petition was filed as defective and it remained defective for more than 3 years and it was only passed on 4.11.2009. In these circumstances, I am not inclined to initiate any contempt proceedings and the contempt petition is accordingly dismissed. (Narendra Kumar Jain),J. Chauhan/