By separate interim orders dated 25.08.2010 passed in Writ Petition No.20867 of 2010, this Court suspended the Circular Memo dated 06.10.2008 of the Director of Mines and Geology, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, and directed the respondents in the writ petition to receive forthwith the proportionate bid amount from the petitioner for the period during which he was to operate the first year’s lease and to execute forthwith the lease deed enabling him to quarry sand from Anantharam sand reach, Manuguru Mandal, Khammam District. These orders were communicated by wire to the respondents on the very same day. Alleging disobedience to the said orders, this contempt case was instituted on 30.09.2010.

2. Notice before admission was ordered in the case on 06.10.2010.

3. The lease in favour of the petitioner was admittedly executed only on 14.10.2010 and at that, upon the intervention of the Chief Minister of the State.

4. Originally, Sri K.L.V.Prasad, Assistant Director of Mines and Geology, Kothagudem, Khammam District, alone was arraigned for the alleged disobedience. Thereafter, by order dated 18.02.2011 passed in C.A.No.138 of 2011, Smt.Ranjeev R.Acharya, Principal