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Karnataka High Court:<\/strong> While dismissing a petition presented to initiate contempt of court\u00a0proceedings against the accused for wilful disobedience of Karnataka High Court\u2019s order in\u00a0Muslim Jamath Committee v. Karnataka State Board Of Wakfs, Writ Petition No. 8589 of\u00a02016, the Division Bench of H.G. Ramesh, K.N. Phaneendra, JJ. held that a petition to initiate\u00a0action for civil contempt can be presented only by an aggrieved party.<\/p>\n

In the aforesaid writ petition, the Court had allowed the petitioner to hold Uroos\u00a0celebrations, provided that the expenses were borne by the petitioner itself. The petitioner\u00a0was barred from taking any contributions from the devotees. The Court had also directed\u00a0the third respondent, Administrator of Masjid, to ensure that no body collects any\u00a0contributions from the devotees unlawfully. Later, the complainant, in his personal\u00a0capacity, filed a contempt petition alleging that the accused had forcefully collected amount\u00a0from devotees in wilful disobedience of Court\u2019s order. The complainant was working as the\u00a0Administrator of Masjid on the date of Court\u2019s order, but on the date of presentation of the\u00a0Contempt Petition, he was working as Assistant Director of Land Records.<\/p>\n

The court noted that except where the Court has given liberty to third parties to initiate\u00a0action for contempt of court, a petition to initiate action for civil contempt can be presented\u00a0only by an aggrieved party. Since the complainant was not a party to the order in his\u00a0personal capacity, and he had presented the contempt petition in his personal capacity, he\u00a0cannot be said to be a \u2018party aggrieved\u2019. Moreover, in the order, no liberty was given to any\u00a0third party to initiate action for contempt of court. The petition, therefore, was accordingly\u00a0dismissed. [Shamshuddin v. Sri Haris M.Y., 2016 SCC OnLine Kar 6468<\/a>,\u00a0November 9, 2016]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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