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a. Authorities are not entitled to interpret an order/direction of the Court for the purpose of implementation and in case any doubt, the only course open to them is to approach the very same Court seeking for alteration, modification or clarification of the said order.
b. Any order adverse to the contemnor could be appealed against and the order holding the contemnor guilty of contempt and punishing him by passing order of admonition is also an adverse order against which appeal is maintainable.

D.MURUGESAN, J.

1. This contempt appeal is directed against the order dated 19.1.2012 passed in Contempt Petition No.161 of 2010.

2. The factual matrix leading to the filing of the present contempt appeal are as follows. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as "the Corporation"), a Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, is having its oil and natural gas exploration and exploitation sites, both on-shore and off-shore, at various places all over the country. The Corporation was having in its employment the regular posts of Marine Assistant Radio Operators, Marine Radio Operators, Marine Radio Officers, Senior Marine Radio Officers for manning the radio network and communication equipment at drill sites. The Corporation also engaged the services of "Radio Operators", as contract labour, through certain private independent contractors. The respondents were initially engaged by the Corporation to work as 'Radio Operators' in the Cauvery and Krishna Godhavari Project through private contractors on and from the year 1986.

3. While they were functioning as such, the Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred under Sec.10(1) of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, issued a notification dated 8.9.1994, prohibiting the employment of contract labour in various works in the establishment of the Corporation, which included the work of Radio Operators also. Hence, the respondents filed writ petitions being W.P.Nos.15211 of 1991 and 1178 of 1996, in this Court seeking for a direction to the Corporation to treat them on par with the regular "Marine Assistant Radio Operators" and extend the scale of pay and other benefits as given to the Marine Assistant Radio Operators on the ground that their qualification and experience are no less than the Marine Assistant Radio Operators and further the nature of work was also the same. The said writ petitions were allowed in view of the notification dated 8.9.1994 issued by the Central Government and also in the light of the judgment of the Supreme Court in Air India Statutory Corporation Ltd. v. United Labour Union and others (1997) 7 SCC 377. The said order was challenged in W.A.Nos.389 and 398 of 1997 by the Corporation and a Division Bench of this Court, vide order dated 15.7.1997, dismissed the writ appeals. Thereafter, a Special Leave Petition was preferred before the Supreme Court and the same was disposed of by order dated 12.1.98 in the following manner:-

"Mr.V.R.Reddy, learned Additional Solicitor General appearing on behalf of the petitioner states that those of the 56 workmen who are found to be qualified in terms of the appropriate regulations, as in force at the relevant time, shall be absorbed as contemplated by the judgment in Air India Statutory Corporation & ors. vs. United Labour Union & Ors. 1997 (7) SCC 377. In view of this statement the SLP does not survive and is disposed of."

4. The respondents were thereafter absorbed as "Junior Helpers" vide the communication of the Corporation dated 2.4.98 with effect from 29.1.97 and their pay was fixed at Rs.2,282/- at old basic bottom of Class IV employees of the Corporation and they were posted at Karaikal and Rajamundry stations. The respondents filed a contempt petition before the Supreme Court alleging wilful disobedience of the order dated 12.1.98. However, the same was withdrawn with liberty to move the High Court for appropriate relief. In the meantime, the one-man Committee appointed by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to look into the grievance of the respondents also submitted its detailed report recommending that the respondents should be absorbed in the post of Marine Assistant Radio Operator with effect from 8.9.1994 in the then prevailing pay scale of Rs.595-20-755-25-930-1140. But the Corporation did not implement the recommendations of the Committee. The grievance of the respondents is tha