Contempt proceedings are not suitable for claims where compliance with prior orders is in dispute; such claims should be pursued through original writ petitions.

JUDGMENT

The petitioner has approached this Court contending that the directions in Annexure-I interim order dated 07.10.2025 in I.A.No.3 of 2025 in WP(C) No.37603 of 2024 have not been complied with, wherein this Court has issued a direction to the respondents to disburse the salary and other emoluments due to the petitioner as envisaged in Ext.P20 in the said writ petition within a period of two months therefrom.

2. The learned Government Pleader, relying on Annexure A2 (Ext.P20 in WP(C) No.37603 of 2024), submits that the decision taken by the Director is to pay the salary due to the petitioner till his retirement from service. The petitioner has no case that salary has been denied to him. The grievance now raised by the petitioner pertains to the grade pay allegedly due to him, which, I am of the view, has to be agitated in the writ petition and hence, the said claim cannot be considered in the contempt of Court case.

Reserving liberty to the petitioner to challenge the same, this contempt case is closed.