JUDGMENT

MATHEW, :— This is an application to take proceedings in contempt against the four respondents on the ground that they have disobeyed a judgment passed by this Court on 9-8-1974 in C. A. No. 2232 of 1973.* That judgment was rendered in an appeal from the decision of the High Court of Mysore in a Writ Petition filed by the petitioner challenging the validity of certain resolutions passed by the Municipality of Udipi. The High Court quashed time of the resolution impugned in the writ petition but held that the resolution passed by the Municipality allowing the conversion of the Kalyana Mantap-cum-lecture hall in 995 question into a cinema hall was valid and dismissed the writ petition to that extent. The appeal to this Court was directed against that order and respondents 1 to 3 in this application were parties to that appeal.

* reported in AIR 1974 SC 2177

2. This Court found that the resolution allowing the conversion of Kalyana Mantap-cum-lecture hall into a cinema hall was bad for the reason that the conversion contravened the Town Planning Scheme and allowed the appeal. Against the order dated 14-3-1973 granting a licence to third respondent for exhibiting films in the ha