IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on : 22.01.2026 Pronounced on: 01.04.2026 Uploaded on: 02.04.2026 Smt. Neelam Kumari ....Petitioner V/s Sh. Sartaj Singh Chahal and another .…Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKRAM AGGARWAL Argued by: Mr. Manjinder Singh Saini, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Amtiaz Sandhu, AAG, Punjab and Ms. Shiny Chopra, AAG, Punjab *****

VIKRAM AGGARWAL, J.

The instant contempt petition, preferred under Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (hereinafter referred to as the “1971 Act”) seeks initiation of contempt proceedings against the respondents for willful disobedience of the directions issued by the Apex Court in Arnesh Kumar V/s State of Bihar and another, (2014) 8 SCC 273 and the notification dated 22.09.2023 (Annexure P-2) issued by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana.

2. The case set up is that FIR No.90 dated 28.09.2023 (Annexure P-1) was registered at Police Station Chabbewal, District Hoshiarpur, on the statement of one Jasvir Singh (respondent No.2) under Sections 153A, 295A, 505 IPC and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (for short “the IT Act”) against the husband of the present petitione