Validity of contempt court case in Interim order after Original writ petition is disposed favourably

In a Writ petition seeking promotion filed before the High Court in 2015 The an interim order was issued ordering “Not to promote any Assistant Engineer who was appointed in the said post after [deleted] in preference to the petitioners pending disposal of the writ petition”. Initial interim order was extended until further orders by order dated [deleted]. The petitioners were appointed and continuing as Assistant Engineers from [deleted]. When the writ petition was pending and the interim order was in force the authorities nullified the settled appointment of the petitioners from [deleted] in the post of Assistant Engineer, illegally, in 2018. This was challenged by filing another writ petition. During the pendency of the writ petition and the interim order the authorities promoted some people who were appointed as Assistant engineers only in 2006, without considering the petitioners. This promotion order was issued violating the interim order and without obtaining any orders from the court against the interim order. CCC was filed for violating the interim order. The Hon’ble court found the respondent had committed contemptuous act ordered Chief Engineer to appear in person. Then the respondent submitted a sworn affidavit of unconditional apology pleading ignorance of the existence of the Interim order. This was challenged by the petitioners with proof that the respondent was aware of the existence of the interim order by producing the representations and E mails send to the respondents official address / E mail ID along with the copies of the Interim Order and pressed to initiate contempt proceedings pointing out Perjury also. Then the counsel said that the petitioners were not given promotion because of the pendency of the writ petitions filed in 2018 challenging the illegal reversion of the petitioners and the Judgment in these writ petitions is awaited shortly. Then the Hon’ble judge adjourned the Contempt petition pending pronouncement of Judgments. Now a common Judgment in the writ petitions and the earlier writ petition of 2015 in which the interim order was issued and contempt case is pending, is pronounced by another single bench and the illegal act of nullifying our appointments from [deleted] is set aside restoring our seniority in the post of Assistant engineer from [deleted] and right to get promotion. Kindly advise me on the following: 1) Disposal of the Judgment in the writ petition in which Contempt case is pending makes the contempt petition also automatically gets closed without taking any actions on the contempt or not? 2) Can we press for initiating contempt proceedings if the respondents doesn’t issue orders declaring us as seniors and promoting us from the date our juniors of 2006 batch were promoted? 3) The court on its own can close the contempt of court case without taking any action against the contemnor even if the petitioner presses for action?