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HIGH COURT OF DELHI
Date of Decision: 21st August, 2024
VIPIN KUMAR TYAGI .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. R.K.Shukla, Advocate.
Through: Mr. S. Rajappa, Mr. Gowrishankar and Ms. G.
Dhivyasri, Advocates.
JUDGMENT
1. The petitioner is seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against the respondent for wilful disobedience of the directions of this Court dated 19.10.2023 passed in W.P. (C) 13896/2023.
2. Learned counsel for the respondent is present on advance notice.
3. Having heard the learned counsels for the parties, at the outset, the present contempt petition is a gross abuse of the process of law. Shorn of unnecessary details, the grievance of the petitioner is that his name has not been considered for National Teachers Award, 2023 by the respondent. This Court vide the aforesaid directions dated 19.10.2023 directed the respondent to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 25.09.2023 on the subject within a period of two months.
4. It appears that in the interregnum, the petitioner filed another writ petition bearing W.P.(C) 11241/2024, wherein a similar grievance CONT CAS (C) 1301/2024 has been raised by him, however, with regard to his name being recommended for the award to be made in the year 2024.
5. A Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in the aforesaid writ petition vide order dated 13.08.2024 has already observed that the name of the petitioner was considered but he was not shortlisted, and therefore, there was no cause of action to file such petition. It would be expedient to reproduce the observations made by the Co-ordinate Bench in the order dated 13.08.2024, which go as under:
6. In view of the above, since the representation of the petitioner has already been considered and rejected, there is no question of respondent being in wilful disobedience of the directions of this Court.
7. Accordingly, the present contempt petition is dismissed.
DHARMESH SHARMA, J. AUGUST 21, 2024