Pitambar Banchhor @ Adbang v. Surendra Kumar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK

CONTC No.6031 of 2020 Pitambar Banchhor @ Adbang .... Petitioner Mr. Bijaya Kumar Behera-1, Advocate -versusSurendra Kumar, Principal Secretary, Department of Water Resources, Government Odisha, Odisha Secretariat, Bhubaneswar, Khurda and Another .... Contemnors/ Opp. Parties Mr. P. K. Mohanty, ASC

CORAM:

JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH JUSTICE M.S. SAHOO ORDER (Oral) 08.12.2022 (Hybrid Mode) Order No.

01.

1.

The present Contempt Petition has been filed for the alleged willful disobedience of the order dated 9th September, 2020 passed by this Court in W.P.(C) No.21049 of 2020.

2.

Mr.

Mohanty, learned Additional Standing Counsel states that the order passed by this Court stands complied with as the amounts to be disbursed were sanctioned vide order dated 3rd March, 2021 issued by the Department of Water Resources, Government of Odisha directing the release of the sanction amount in L.A.R. No.53/2012 subject to verification and supply of particulars by the

// 2 // petitioner. He has placed on record a copy of the order dated 3rd March, 2021, which has been supplied to the counsel for the petitioner as well. Thus, the petitioner upon supplying necessary information and documents is free to collect his admissible amounts of enhanced compensation.

3.

In view of the above, the present Contempt Petition stands dismissed as infructuous.

(Jaswant Singh) Judge (M.S. Sahoo) Judge Sipun 8th December, 2022 Cuttack