IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE Present:

The Hon’ble Justice Harish Tandon And The Hon’ble Justice Prasenjit Biswas MAT 12 of 2024 With CAN 1 of 2024 CAN 2 of 2024 Bidhan Chandra Mohanta -Versus-

Sri Siddhartha Majumder & Ors.

For the Appellant : Mr. Sudip Ghosh Chowdhury, Ms. Shreyeta Mitra For the WBCSSC : Mr. Sutanu Kumar Patra, Ms. Supriya Dubey.

For the State : Mr. Suman Ghosh, Mr. Sankha Prasad Roy.

Delivered on : 07.02.2025 Prasenjit Biswas, J:-

1. The order dated 21.04.2023 passed by the learned Single Bench in CPAN 256 of 2023 arising out of WPA 2516 of 2022 is assailed in this appeal at the behest of the petitioner.

2. The appellant filed a contempt petition alleging that the respondents (herein) had not honored the direction passed by the learned Single Bench in WPA 2516 of 2002 dated 19.07.2022. The said application for contempt was disposed of by the learned Single Bench by passing the impugned order.

3. The only point involved in the present appeal is whether the learned Single Bench in exercising of the contempt jurisdiction can pass an order which runs counter to the spirit of the original order for which violation was pleaded in th