Meghana Verulkar v. Jambopay Express Private Limited

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION CONTEMPT PETITION (ST) NO. 344 OF 2025 Bhumika Rupani

...Petitioner

Versus

Jambopay Express Private Limited & Ors.

...Respondents

WITH CONTEMPT PETITION (L) NO. 35130 OF 2024 IN COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION PETITION NO. 360 OF 2024 WITH CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 1 OF 2025 IN COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION PETITION NO. 365 OF 2024 WITH CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 9 OF 2025 IN COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION PETITION NO. 367 OF 2024 WITH CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 10 OF 2025 _______ Mr. Ankit Lohia a/w. Mr. Kunal Vaishnav and Mr. Vijeet Trivedi i/b Ganesh & Co., for the Petitioner.

Mr. Aditya Raut a/w. Ms. Rivya Singh, Ms. Laura Demello and Ms. Riyanshi Jain, for Respondent Nos. 1 to 4.

Respondent Nos. 2 to 4, present virtually.

_______ CORAM : ARIF S. DOCTOR, J.

th MARCH, 2026 DATE : 24 P.C.

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Mr. Raut, learned counsel appearing on behalf of Respondent Nos. 1 to 4 has today tendered an affidavit filed by Respondent No.2, which sets out how

2/3 Respondent No.2 proposes to raise and thereafter earmark an amount of Rs.1,65,80,748/-, which he submits would be in compliance of the five orders th September 2024.

dated 13 2.

Mr. Lohia, learned counsel for the Petitioner, at the outset, objects by pointing out that, firstly, given that a show cause notice has been issued in the present Contempt Petition, it was expected that each of the Respondents would have to file their individual affidavits setting out how they propose to purge the contempt.

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Mr. Raut submits that the Respondents shall do so. 4.

Mr. Lohia then also submits that the Respondents, in the said affidavit which they now propose to file, must also disclose their assets from the year 2024 onwards. He submits that what is proposed by way of the present affidavit is to raise funds from the sale / mortgage of the ancestral property belonging to the father of Respondent No.2. He further submits that this course of action is fraught with problems, given their ancestral property cannot be alienated in the manner which is propose in the affidavit. He submits that the Court having noted the contempt on the part of the Respondents, has passed a self-operative order that if, by the next date, the Respondents do not purge the contempt, then those of whom do not purge a contempt would be committed to civil imprisonment.

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Mr. Raut, learned counsel for Respondent Nos. 1 to 4 assures the Court that the Respondents shall individually file affidavits disclosing their personal assets from 2024 onwards as also giving the requisite undertakings to ensure

3/3 that the contempt is purged within the period of five weeks. For this purpose, he prays for and is granted two days' time.

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Let the disclosure affidavits be filed in the Registry before the next date. th March 2026.

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Stand over to 27 [ARIF S. DOCTOR, J.]