V. KAMESWAR RAO, J.

1. The present petition under Article 215 of the Constitution of India read with Sections 2(B) and Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 has been filed by the petitioner Jawaharlal Nehru University inter alia seeking action against the respondents for disobedience of order dated August 9, 2017 with a further direction to them not to assemble, protest, dharna, march, blockade, use of public address system within 100 meters of the Administrative Block and not to stop ingress and egress of the officials to the Administrative Block. The relevant paras 5 to 9 of order dated August 9, 2017 read as under:

“5. Considering the present situation, it is directed that no protest of any sort shall be undertaken by the students within 100 meters radius of the Administrative Block. The University authorities shall earmark an area where the students can congregate freely to protest.

6. Ms Monika Arora, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner has drawn the attention of this Court to a map of the university campus (Annexure P-5) which indicates that on th