TARUN CHATTERJEE, C. J.

( 1 ) THE alleged contemnor Mr. T. George Joseph, Principal secretary, Tax Registration, Government of u. P. , Lucknow is the appellant before us. He files this appeal against an order of a learned judge exercising contempt jurisdiction in which the learned Judge after considering the allegations made in the application for contempt has framed a charge which is as follows:-that you failed to follow the directions given by the Division Bench of this court on 7-12-2000 passed in Civil Misc. Writ petition No. 38807 of 2000 and connected writ petitions in preparing the seniority list of Entertainment and Betting Tax Inspector Grade-II and thereby wilfully disobeyed the above order of this court. " after framing the charge the learned contempt Judge also directed the appellant to produce evidence in his defence of the charge by affidavit within three weeks.

( 2 ) A preliminary objection has been raised by the private-respondent saying that no appeal lies against the impugned order in view of the fact that there was no final decision of the matter. According to the learned counsel for the private-respondent, an appeal shall lie against only those order or decision

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