madurai madras high court has sentenced a retired chief educational officer ceo to two weeks simple imprisonment in a contempt case for not complying with its earlier order to approve the appointment of a sewing teacher in a government aided school justice battu devanand also imposed a fine of rs 1000 on samy sathiyamoorthy who was working as the district elementary educational officer deeo of devakottai in sivaganga districthe will undergo three more days of simple imprisonment if he fails to pay the fine however taking into account the request from sathiyamoorthys counsel the judge suspended the sentence for two weeksin 2015 the correspondent of st josephs middle school at sarugani in sivaganga filed a petition before the madurai bench of the high court seeking to approve the appointment of a sewing teacher in 2018 a single bench directed sathiyamoorthy the then deeo to approve the appointment within six weeks in 2019 the correspondent filed a contempt petition before the court seeking action against sathiyamoorthy since the earlier order was not complied within his counter filed in july 2023 sathiyamoorthy stated that after getting legal opinion he filed an appeal against the order of the single bench and the same was pending in 2020 he was promoted and posted as ceo of kancheepuram district and was subsequently transferred to various places he had retired from service on superannuation in july 2022 he submitted that he has taken earnest steps to prosecute the appeal and subsequently due to his transfer and retirement he could not proceed furtherjustice battu devanand observed that this court while hearing the contempt petitioner earlier in 2021 had directed sathiyamoorthy to comply with the courts order however he did not except saying that an appeal was filed and it was pending no proper and acceptable answer was given by sathiyamoorthy hence sathiyamoorthy wilfully disobeyed the order passed in 2018 and he is liable for punishment under the provision of contempt of court act refusing to accept the unconditional apology tendered by sathiyamoorthy the judge imposed the sentence and fine on him