1. This is a contempt petition complaining' that the orders directing maintainance of status quo obtained by the petitioners in W.P. No. 5327 of 1996 on 2.1.1997 has been breached by the contemnors.

2. The factual back ground in which the order of status quo came to be passed needs mention in brief. In the writ petition filed by them, the claim of the petitioners is that under the newly framed M.P. Mining Rules, 1996, the right with regard to quarrying of sand and Bajri vests only in the Gram Panchayat and the respondent M.P. State Mining Corporation has no right to issue tender and grant quarry leases for the above minerals which are within the jurisdiction of the Gram Panchayat where quarries are situated.

3. In the petition filed by the petitioner to restrain the M.P. State Mining Corporation Limited from exercising right of mining in relation to the above minerals from the quarry situated within Gram Panchayats, the Court passed the order of status quo in the following terms:

"Heard Shri Rajendra Tiwari, Senior Counsel, with Shri R.K. Shrivastava, Adv. for the petitioners.

Learned counsel has invited attention to EX.P-5 and has contended in respect of the two quarries Malkach