HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA ****

CONTEMPT APPEAL No.13 of 2024 Between:

Lachumalla Sushma …. Appellant And Gundabathini Jhansilaxmi and Others.

…Respondents Date Of Judgment Pronounced: 25.11.2025 SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL:

THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SAM KOSHY AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SUDDALA CHALAPATHI RAO

1. Whether Reporters of Local newspapers Yes/No may be allowed to see the Judgments?

2. Whether the copies of judgment may be Yes/No marked to Law Reporters/Journals

3. Whether Their Ladyship/Lordship wish to see Yes/No the fair copy of the Judgment?

________________________________ SUDDALA CHALAPATHI RAO, J * THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SAM KOSHY AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SUDDALA CHALAPATHI RAO + CONTEMPT APPEAL No.13 of 2024 % 25^th November, 2025 CONTEMPT APPEAL No.13 of 2024 # Lachumalla Sushma .. Appellant VS.

$ Gundabathini Jhansilaxmi and Others .. Respondents ! Counsel for the appellant : Sri V.Brahmaiah Chowdary ^ Counsel for the 1^st Respondent : Sri Sri Baglekar Akash Kumar < Gist:

> Head Note:

? CITATIONS:

1 (2004) 7 SCC 166

2. AIR 221 Supreme Court 3723 = (2022)1 SCC 209

3. (2015) 10 Supreme Court Cases 609

4. AIR 2023 Delhi 139

5. Contempt Petition Civil No.709 of 204, dt.11.02.2025 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SAM KOSHY AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SUDDALA CHALAPATHI RAO CONTEMPT APPEAL No.13 of 2024 JUDGMENT: (Per the Hon’ble Sri Justice Suddala Chalapathi Rao)

The present Contempt Appeal is filed under Section 19 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (for short ‘the Act, 1971’) against the order passed by the learned Single Judge in CC.No.2707 of

2023, dt.11.09.2024.

2. The 1^st respondent herein is the contempt petitioner in the underlying contempt case, which has been filed for willful disobedience of the orders in IA.No.323 of 2022 in OS.No.141 of 2022 on the file of the Principal Junior Civil Judge, Suryapet. The appellant herein is the Contemnor-2^nd respondent in the said contempt case and 2nd respondent in the said interlocutory application.

3. The parties hereinafter will be referred to as they are arrayed in the Contempt Case.

Brief facts of the case:

4. The contempt petitioner is the owner and possessor of the house property bearing No. 2-1-169/3/1, admeasuring 328 sq.

yards, situated at Polytechnic College, Thallagadda, Suryapet Town and District, and the contemnor-2^nd respondent, who is the daughter-in-law of the contempt petitioner, having strained relations with her husband, alleged to have interfered with the peaceful possession and enjoyment of the 1^st respondent over said property. The Contempt Petitioner then filed the above mentioned suit before the jurisdictional Civil Court seeking perpetual injunction and along with the suit, she filed IA.No.323 of 2022 under Order XXXIX Rules 1 & 2 of Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (for short ‘CPC’) for ad interim injunction retraining the respondents therein from interfering with her peaceful possession and enjoyment over the suit schedule house property, which was granted vide order, dt.09.05.2022, and was being extended from time to time.

5. While the said ad-interim injunction is in operation, the contemnor-2^nd respondent alleged to have violated the said ad- interim injunction order, for which, the contempt petitioner filed an application vide I.A.No.30 of 2023 under Order XXXIX Rule 2A CPC and the said application is pending adjudication before the said Court. Thereafter, the 1^st respondent has also filed the underlying Contempt Case No.2707 of 2023 before this Court under Section 10 of the Act, 1971, for punishing the respondents, and the learned Single Judge, after issuing notice to the respondents and having heard both sides, by order dt.11.09.2024 partly allowed the contempt case, sentencing the 2^nd respondent alone to undergo imprisonment for a term of 15 days and further directed to pay a fine of Rs.2,000/-.

6. Assailing the said order in CC.No.2707 of 2023, dt.11.09.2024, the present Contempt Appeal is filed.

7. We have heard Sri V.Brahmaiah Chowdary, learned counsel