Mrs. Padma Khastgir, J.

This appeal arises from an order dated 3rd of March, 1987, passed by a learned Judge of this Court in a Contempt proceeding.

2. In the year 1975 Sri Pritwish Kar moved an application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India Playing inter alia that the respondents be commanded by a writ of Mandamus, in not taking into consideration any of the adverse remarks made against the writ petitioner in the years 1971, 1972 and 1974 to expunge the said adverse remarks from the service records of the writ petitioner and by confirming him in the post of Director together with a prayer commanding the respondents not to affect the seniority of the petitioner in the gradation list nor to confirm any other incumbent to the post of Director in derogation to the interest of the petitioner. The learned Judge made the Rule absolute in terms of both the prayers. In an application contending that the respondents had wilfully and deliberately violated the order passed by the learned Judge on 28th June, 1984, the contempt proceedings was initiated. The said order recorded in the first paragraph that all the contemnors were personally present in court and they undertook t