Contempt not maintainable for enforcing unspecified consequential service benefits.

ORDER

This contempt petition is filed to punish the respondent for wilfully disobeying the order dated 23.04.2025 passed in W.P.No.4184 of 2022 on the file of this Court.

2. The petitioner has filed the contempt petition on the ground that consequent to the order passed in the writ petition, the consequential service benefits restoring the promotion on par with his juniors and his arrears of salary have not been paid. The petitioner has been denied annual increment after 01.04.2018. The petitioner, aggrieved by the inaction and deliberate intentional violation of the order of this Court, has filed the above contempt petition.

3. This Court passed the following order in the writ petition:

“11. Therefore, the issuance of the charge memo by an authority who is not legally competent to initiate disciplinary proceedings renders the charge memo illegal and invalid. Consequently, the entire disciplinary proceedings founded on an illegal charge memo stand vitiated. Hence, the punishment order dated 07.06.2018, the appellate order dated 15.10.2019, and the review order dated 16.12.2021, are all unsustainable and hence set aside.”

4. In the absence of any specific direction to grant the consequential reliefs such as service benefits to the petitioner, in the considered view of this Court, the same cannot be claimed under the contempt proceedings. Therefore, this Court finds that the contempt petition is not maintainable.

Hence, this contempt petition is closed. In any event, the petitioner is granted liberty to work out the remedies available to him in accordance with law.