JUDGMENT

ORDER:— In this complaint of contempt of Court, complainant alleges a wilful disobedience by the H. P. Tourism Development Corporation of the directions of this Court made on 2-12-1988, in CA 6144 of 1983 in that respondents despite the specific directions in the order for restoration of complainants seniority in service over and above two other officers, viz., N. K. Sharma and H. R. Choudhary, the said Corporation had resorted to hairsplitting technicalities in order to deny to the complainant the benefit of the order of this Court. It is urged that if the complainants seniority had been so restored in accordance with the order the case of the complainant for promotion to the post of Deputy General Manager would require consideration with effect from 28-5-1982 on which date his admitted-juniors had been promoted entitling complainant also to all the monetary benefits of such promotion. What the corporation is said to have done is that while it reviewed the promotions with effect from 28-5-1982 and granted the promotion to the complainant, it treated the promotion for the period from 28-5-1982 up to 3-9-1986 on which latter date complainant, even according to the Corporati