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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA

AT HYDERABAD

THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE LAXMI NARAYANA ALISHETTY

CONTEMPT CASE No.1056 of 2025

DATED: 28.01.2026

Between:

Siddhanthi Apoorva Kumar and another. …Petitioners

AND

P.Venkateshwar Reddy and another. …Respondents

ORDER:

This Contempt Case is filed under Section 10 to 12 of

Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, to punish the respondent for willful,

wanton and deliberate violation of interim Orders granted by this

Court in I.A.No.1 of 2025 in A.S.No.12 of 2025, dated 03.02.2025.

2. Heard Ms.M.Phani Sree, learned Counsel representing Sri

M.Ram Mohan Reddy, learned Counsel for petitioners on record and

Sri B.Raveendra Babu, learned Counsel for respondent.

3. Learned Counsel for the petitioners would submit that

petitioners herein have filed an appeal suit vide A.S.No.12 of 2025,

aggrieved by the Judgment and decree dated 04.12.2024 in

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O.S.No.36 of 2017, passed by learned I-Additional District Judge,

Mahabubnagar, along with an application vide I.A.No.1 of 2025

under Order 39 Rule 1 & 2 of CPC seeking to grant ad-interim

injunction restraining respondents from interfering with the

petitioners’ possession and enjoyment of the suit schedule property

pending disposal of the appeal suit; that by Order dated 03.02.2025,

this Court granted ad-interim injunction as prayed for by the

petitioners and the said interim Order was extended till 24.04.2025

and further extended thereafter.

4. Learned Counsel for the petitioners further submitted that on

13.04.2025, petitioners got information that two cows entered into

their land and on enquiry they came to know that compound wall

was damaged; that on 14.04.2025, when petitioner No.2 tried to

restore the compound wall to prevent the entry of animals,

respondent No.1 and his son obstructed him from restoration of

compound wall claiming that they demolished the compound wall

and if the same is raised again, they will demolish again and also

warned the petitioner No.2 not to restore the compound wall; that

petitioners lodged a complaint on the same day to the Circle

Inspector of Police, II-Town Police Station, Mahabubnagar, however,

Police have not registered the case. He further submitted that

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respondents deliberately violated the Orders passed by this Court

and therefore, respondents are liable to be punished under Section

10 to 12 of Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.

5. Learned Counsel for the respondents by referring to the

Counter would submit that respondents will not come in the way of

administration of justice and that they have has no deliberate or

willful intention to commit violation of Orders passed by this Court

and submitted unconditional and unqualified apology. However, in

the counter, it is specifically admitted that respondents were present

at the suit schedule property on 14.04.2025. Further, it is also stated

that respondents would undertake not to interfere with any kind of

activity in the suit schedule property till the interim Orders of this

Court are in force.

6. Reply affidavit has been filed on behalf of petitioners denying

the averments made by the respondents in the counter affidavit and

prayed to punish the respondents for disobeying the Orders passed

by this Court.

7. It is the specific case of the petitioners that despite ad-interim

injunction granted by this Court, restraining respondents from

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interfering with the suit schedule property, respondents demolished

the compound wall and when petitioners tried to restore the same,

respondents obstructed and threatened the petitioners not to restore

the compound wall and that complaint was also lodged with the

Police. Petitioners have also filed photographs indicating the presence

of respondents in the suit schedule property. Whereas, it is case of

the respondents that they neither demolished the compound wall nor

obstructed the petitioners not to construct the compound wall; that

they lodged complaint against the petitioners, wher