243 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CACP-33-2025 (O&M)

Date of decision: 03.02.2026 CHANDER SHEKHAR KHARE ....Appellant Versus RAMESH KUMAR SACHDEV AND ANOTHER ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ASHWANI KUMAR MISHRA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ROHIT KAPOOR *****

Present: Mr. Ankur Mittal, Senior Advocate with Ms. Kushaldeep Kaur, Advocate Mr. Shivendra Swaroop, Advocate Ms. Ashna Singh, Advocate Ms. Sharvi Dadhwal, Advocate for the appellant.

Mr. Ashwani Kumar Chopra, Senior Advocate with Mr. Brahmjot Singh Nahar, Advocate for respondent No.1.

Mr. Akshit Chander, Advocate for respondent No.2.

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ASHWANI KUMAR MISHRA, J. (Oral)

1. Learned counsel for the appellant, at the very outset seeks, liberty of the Court to convert this Contempt Appeal into a Letters Patent Appeal.

2. Prayer made is allowed. The appellant is permitted to correct the nomenclature of the plea as a Letters Patent Appeal.

3. This appeal is a classic example of how the contempt proceedings are utilized to derive benefits which are far beyond the relief granted in a writ petition. Facts, which persuade us to make this observation, are noticed hereinafter.

4. It transpires that in the year 2008, the appl