JUDGMENT :

1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants.

2. The applicants before this Court had approached the Writ Court through Writ-C No.18129 of 2021, wherein on 09.08.2021 the opposite party was required to decide the proceedings of the Suit, within a period of three months.

3. The order-sheet which has been brought on record as Annexure 3 to the application demonstrates the fact that not even on single occasion from 11.08.2021 to 17.05.2022, the Tehsil Court has functioned. On all the occasions, the judicial work had suffered on the count that the lawyers are abstaining from judicial work.

4. This Court takes note of the fact that on one hand, the writ petitions are filed seeking the direction for early disposal of the revenue proceedings which are pending for a quite long time before the Revenue Court, while lawyers practising at Tehsil level in various districts of the State are mostly on strike. When the order of the writ Court is not adhered by the Officers of the Revenue Department, who are performing the judicial work, the contempt proceedings are initiated against them.

5. I find that this Court cannot proceed to punish the Officers under the contempt jurisdiction as it is