IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 19.01.2026 Pronounced on: 06.02.2026 Harnek Singh and another … Petitioners Versus Ms. Anindita Mitra, Principal Secretary, Department of Education, Punjab and another … Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKRAM AGGARWAL Present: Mr. Anil Mehta, Advocate, and Ms. Sukriti Kaur, Advocate, for the petitioners.

Mr. Jastej Singh, Addl. AG, Punjab.

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VIKRAM AGGARWAL, J.

The instant contempt petition has been preferred under Article

215 of the Constitution of India, read with Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (for short, ‘the 1971 Act’), seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against the respondents for deliberate and willful disobedience of the order dated 21.07.2011 (Annexure P-2), passed in CWP-4267-2010, titled as “Harnek Singh and others v. State of Punjab and others” and the order dated 23.03.2012 (Annexure P-3), passed in COCP-941-2011, titled as “Disabled Persons Association v. SC Aggarwal and another” and COCP-3142-2011, titled as “Harnesh Singh and another v. Hussan Lal”

2. The petitioners are visually disabled persons, who along with other persons, had instituted CWP-4267-2010 on the basis of a