JUDGMENT :

REKHA PALLI, J.

1. The present petitions under Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, seeks initiation of contempt proceedings against the respondents for wilful disobedience of the directions issued by the Division Bench of this Court on 06.12.2017 in W.P.(C) 4297/2017 and other connected petitions.

2. Before dealing with the rival submissions of the parties, the brief factual matrix, as may be necessary for adjudication of the present petitions may be noted.

3. The petitioners are providing private stage carriage services to the Govt. of NCT of Delhi under a cluster scheme. Under this scheme, all the clusters are a part of a network for providing stage carriage services for Delhi so as to ensure safe and comfortable travel to the commuters. For smooth operation of the scheme, the Govt. of NCT of Delhi entered into various similar concessionaire agreements with the petitioners and other concessionaires, who were required to provide the services of drivers and other staff in relation to operation and maintenance of buses in their respective clusters. The services of the conductors, who were to man these buses were, however, provided by the Govt. of NCT of Delhi. It is an