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MADURAI: Madras high court, hearing contempt petitions filed over non-compliance of its earlier order on lighting of Karthigai Deepam at the deepathoon atop a Thiruparankundram hill in Madurai district, said on Friday that charges would be framed against the contemnors if they failed to show cause for not complying with the directive, reports K Kaushik. Madurai district collector K J Praveen Kumar, police commissioner J Loganathan, executive officer of Subramaniya Swamy temple Yagna Narayanan and Madurai South DCP A G Inigo Divyan, who are contemnors in the case, were present in court. The collector as well as DCP informed the court that they acted entirely on their own. Justice G R Swaminathan of Madurai bench of HC observed that the contemnors had not shown cause as to why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them. “Unless proper cause is shown, charges will be framed… on Feb 2,” the judge said. The state informed the court that Letters Patent Appeals were filed against contempt proceedings and they were yet to be taken up by the division bench. The matter was posted for further hearing on Feb 6.