VIJAY KUMAR SHARMA vs R.P. SATI

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$~4 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 01.05.2025 + CONT.CAS(C) 296/2023 VIJAY KUMAR SHARMA .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Jai Sahai Endlaw and Mr.Zubin John, Advs. versus R.P. SATI & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr.Nirvikar Verma, ASC with Ms.Ranjana Cheema, DD (Legal) for NDMC CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MINI PUSHKARNA NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) 1. This Contempt Petition has been filed by the petitioner complaining of the breach of the Order dated 15.11.2022 passed by this Court in LPA 470/2022 titled New Delhi Municipal Council v. Vijay Kumar Sharma. The said Order reads as under: “1. Learned Counsel for the Appellant has stated in the open Court that Order dated 02.11.2022 regularizing the service of the Respondent herein and for payment of dues to the Respondent has been passed subject to the final outcome of the instant LPA. 2. When confronted with the aforesaid situation, learned Counsel for the Respondent prays for four weeks’ time to enable the Respondent to join on the post on which he has been regularized and receive all the Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed CONT.CAS(C) 296/2023 Page 1 of 3 By:RENUKA NEGI Signing Date:07.05.2025 19:09:43 consequential benefits. 3. Time, as prayed for, is granted. 4. List on 06.03.2023.” 2. It is the complaint of the petitioner that though the New Delhi Municipal Council has paid approximately Rs.52 lacs as the dues owed, the New Delhi Municipal Council has still not paid the interest component, awarded by the learned Single Judge, nor has it paid the other dues apart from the Basic Pay and the Dearness Allowance. 3. On the other hand, the leaned counsel for the respondents submits that the entire dues, in so far as the old record could be verified, have been paid to t