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, 0