Neutral Citation No. - 2023:AHC:99314-DB A.F.R.

Court No. - 29 Case :- SPECIAL APPEAL No. - 234 of 2023 Appellant :- Vinod Kumar Gupta And Another Respondent :- Sri Veer Bahadur Yadav,S.D.M. And Another Counsel for Appellant :- Shashi Kant Hon'ble Mrs. Sunita Agarwal,J.

Hon'ble Vikas Budhwar,J.

(By Vikas Budhwar,J.)

1. This intra-court appeal is against the judgment and order dated 17.03.2023 passed by the learned Single Judge exercising contempt jurisdiction in Contempt Application (Civil) No.1894 of 2023, by which the learned Single Judge upon finding that the opposite party has not committed contempt, has declined to initiate proceedings for contempt.

2. The case of the writ petitioner before the Contempt Court was that on 07.09.2022 in Public Interest Litigation (PIL) No. 1686 of 2022 (Vinod Kumar Gupta and others vs. State of U.P. and 3 others), liberty was accorded to the appellant-petitioner to approach the appropriate forum under Section 67 of the U.P. Revenue Code, 2006 for removal of encroachments on the public land, however, despite the fact that the appellant-writ petitioner represented his cause before the competent authority on 21.09.2022, 01.10.2022 and 15.02.2023, no act