HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE B. VIJAYSEN REDDY CONTEMPT CASE No.1177 OF 2025 IN/AND CONTEMPT CASE No.714 OF 2025 COMMON ORDER : (ORAL)

C.C. No.1177 of 2025:

This contempt case is filed aggrieved by the wilful disobedience of the order dated 17.04.2025 passed by this Court in C.C. No.714 of 2025 in W.P. No.No.1788 of 2025.

C.C. No.1177 of 2025:

This contempt case is filed aggrieved by the wilful disobedience of the order dated 23.01.2025 passed by this Court in W.P. No.1788 of

2025.

3. For the sake of convenience, the parties herein are referred to as arrayed in the writ petition vide W.P. No.1788 of 2025.

4. The petitioner and respondent No.6 are husband and wife. The petitioner filed W.P. No.1788 of 2025 seeking removal of Look Out Circular (LOC) opened against him in connection with C.C. No.136 of 2023 on the file of the learned I Additional Judicial Magistrate Court, Sanga Reddy (for short ‘trial Court’). Order dated 23.01.2025 was passed by this Court suspending the LOC opened against the petitioner for a period of six (6) months. The petitioner was directed to appear before the trial Court within a period of three (3) weeks from the date of the said order. The trial Court was given liberty to impose conditions to ensure that the petitioner cooperates with the trial and appears before the trial Court as and when required. Thereafter, order dated 15.03.2025 was passed by this Court directing the petitioner not to leave India without prior intimation to the trial Court.

5. By alleging that the order dated 23.01.2025 was not complied with, C.C. No.714 of 2025 was filed by the petitioner and respondent No.6 got herself impleaded in the said contempt case. Order dated 16.04.2025 was passed by this Court by recording the submissions of the learned Government Pleader for Home that due to communication gap, the order dated 23.01.2025 in W.P. No.1788 of 2025 was not communicated to the Immigration Department in the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport and immediate steps will be taken to communicate the said order. Consequently, direction was issued to respondent authorities therein to communicate the order dated 23.01.2025 for suspending LOC opened against the petitioner within a period of three (3) weeks.

6. The matter underwent several adjournments, however, to give a quietus to the matrimonial disputes, the petitioner and respondent No.6 were directed to appear before this Court by order dated 17.04.2025 in C.C. No.714 of 2025. On 24.01.2025, the parties appeared before this Court and the respective counsel appearing for them requested the parties to be sent for mediation before the Co-ordinator, Mediation Centre, High Court Legal Services Committee (HCLSC). During the interaction with the parties, this Court enquired the petitioner, if he is willing to pay any amount as interim maintenance to respondent No.6 and minor children. The petitioner agreed to transfer Rs.15,00,000/- to the account of respondent No.6. Order dated 21.04.2025 was passed directing the petitioner to deposit Rs.15,00,000/- to the account of respondent No.6 on the same day. The parties were referred to mediation centre, HCLSC, on

22.04.2025.

7. On 13.06.2025, it was informed to this Court that the petitioner left for the USA and he has violated the order dated 15.03.2025. Subsequently, during further hearing, learned counsel for the petitioner informed this Court that the petitioner has come back to India. When this Court enquired the learned counsel for the petitioner as to the deposit of Rs.15,00,000/- (Rupees fifteen lakhs only), learned counsel submitted that Rs.5,00,000/- (Rupees five lakhs only) has been deposited in the name of respondent No.6 vide D.D. No.508558 dated 24.04.2025. Further, the Fixed Deposit Receipts (FDRs) for Rs.5,00,000/- each have been made in the names of the two (2) minor children and the same were handed over to respondent No.6. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the amount of Rs.15,00,000/- was offered by the petitioner as a sec