DEEPA CHAUDHARY vs ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION

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$~9 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 21st February, 2025 + CONT.CAS(C) 940/2019 DEEPA CHAUDHARY .....Petitioner Through: None versus ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION .....Respondent Through: Mr. Anil Soni, Senior Advocate with Mr. Devvrat Yadav and Ms. Sanchari Banerjee, Advocates for AICTE CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN J U D G M E N T (oral) 1. None appears on behalf of the petitioner. 2. It is noticed that when this matter was taken up by this Court on 17.11.2023, the respondent i.e. All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) had informed that the department had complied with the direction of this Court and accordingly sought time to file a status report in this regard. 3. As per bare contents of the contempt petition, according to petitioner, respondents had committed contempt of order dated 25.07.2019 whereby the respondent-AICTE was directed to decide the appeal filed by the petitioner within four weeks. 4. Learned counsel for respondent-AICTE submits that petitioner had merely filed a representation which has been described somehow as appeal in the aforesaid order. It is submitted that such representation was duly Signature Not Verified CONT.CAS(C) 940/2019 1 Digitally Signed By:SONIA THAPLIYAL Signing Date:24.02.2025 15:53:56 considered by the Standing Complaint Scrutiny Committee on 19.10.2023 and has been disposed of by observing that there was no merit in such representation. 5. So much so, a communication thereof was also sent to petitioner on 01.11.2023. 6. It is, thus, quite apparent that representation of the petitioner has already been disposed of and in case petitioner is aggrieved by such decision, she can always take appropriate action, as permissible under law. 7. Though the decision as above is not