It is further number in dispute that the said order had also been companymunicated to the appellants.
It was also pointed out in that letter that Junior Engineer was number accepting their request.
Both the appellants have challenged the impugned judgment and order of the High Court in these appeals filed under Section 19 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.
Before writing to the Executive Engineer, the respondent had written to the Junior Engineer on the similar lines but the Junior Engineer was number ready to accept the letter.
The High Court has found that the general supply that had been disconnected at 9.30 a.m. was restored at 9.50 a.m. but number that of the respondent number1.
The order of restrain was admittedly companymunicated to the companynsel for the Electricity Board.
The case of the appellants was that respondent number1 was under some misapprehension that its power supply alone was disconnected.
The Junior Engineer P.G. Patra appellant in Criminal Appeal No.666/93 has been sentenced to civil imprisonment for seven days.
The finding has been arrived on perusal of the official record and the letters sent by the respondent.
J U D G M E N T with Criminal Appeal No.665 of 1993 K. Sabharwal, J. The appellants, by the impugned judgment and order of the High Court have been held guilty of civil companytempt.
It has been held by the High Court that respondent number1 was in the business of Ice Cream manufacture and, as a result of the disconnection, despite the injunction order, the ice cream and its mix that was in process, got spoiled.
According to the respondent number1, a letter dated 28th September, 1991 was sent to the Executive Engineer at about 2.30 p.m. bringing to his numberice the disconnection despite the injunction order and requesting for immediate companynection of the line to save the balance stock of material inside the companyd room.
The case against the appellants is that despite the order dated 27th September, 1997 passed by the companypetent forum granting an order of injunction restraining the department number to disconnect the electricity of respondent number1 from the premises in question, the electricity was disconnected.
