Can court judgment and orders be afforded not to be given due regard and not implemented especially when court orders are in favour of a petitioner who had felt to have been wronged? The Division Bench of High Court, while dealing with a contempt petition viewed seriously non implementation of a 3 year old judgment . It felt that in case after case , ”hapless citizens are tormented by the officials on account of non- compliance of court orders”. It held the management of Sher-e- Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, (SKIMS) Soura Srinagar guilty of contempt of court .”valuable time of the court has been wasted”, since the filing of the petition , was how the non compliance has been viewed.
The court while granting one more opportunity to SKIMS to implement the court order, imposed a penalty of Rs.1500 for every date the management of SKIMS had taken an adjournment from May 22, 2018 to date. The Court directed that the “costs shall be deposited within two weeks ” from the date of the order and proof of deposit to be brought on record. That the court orders should travel fast within concerned departments , the DB directed that a system was urgently required whereby online intra department notification of the court order was affected.
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