Supreme Court - Daily Orders
Justice K.S.Puttaswamy(Retd) And Anr. vs Union Of India And Ors. on 18 January, 2018
Bench: Chief Justice, A.K. Sikri, A.M. Khanwilkar, D.Y. Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan
WP(C) 494/2012
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ITEM NOS.501+509 COURT NO.1 SECTION PIL-W
S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
Writ Petition (Civil) No. 494/2012
JUSTICE K.S.PUTTASWAMY(RETD) & ANR. Petitioners
VERSUS
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondents
(IA No.141212/2017-impleading party and IA No.141215/2017-
CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION and IA No.5311/2018-impleading party and IA
No.5312/2018-CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION and IA No.5890/2018-
INTERVENTION APPLICATION)
WITH
T.C.(C) No. 151/2013 (XVI -A)
T.C.(C) No. 152/2013 (XVI -A)
W.P.(C) No. 833/2013 (PIL-W)
W.P.(C) No. 829/2013 (PIL-W)
T.P.(C) No. 1797/2013 (XVI -A)
W.P.(C) No. 932/2013 (PIL-W)
T.P.(C) No. 1796/2013 (XVI -A)
CONMT.PET.(C) No. 144/2014 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (PIL-W)
T.P.(C) No. 313/2014 (XVI -A)
T.P.(C) No. 312/2014 (XVI -A)
SLP(Crl) No. 2524/2014 (II-A)
W.P.(C) No. 37/2015 (PIL-W)
W.P.(C) No. 220/2015 (PIL-W)
CONMT.PET.(C) No. 674/2015 In W.P.(C) No. 829/2013 (PIL-W)
T.P.(C) No. 921/2015 (XVI -A)
CONMT.PET.(C) No. 470/2015 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (PIL-W)
CONMT.PET.(C) No. 444/2016 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (PIL-W)
CONMT.PET.(C) No. 608/2016 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (PIL-W)
W.P.(C) No. 797/2016 (PIL-W)
(FOR PERMISSION TO FILE ANNEXURES ON IA 4/2016, FOR DIRECTIONS ON
IA 5/2017, FOR STAY APPLICATION ON IA 6/2017)
CONMT.PET.(C) No. 844/2017 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (PIL-W)
W.P.(C) No. 342/2017 (PIL-W)
(FOR INTERIM PRAYERS FOR GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF ON IA 1/2017 and
IA No.129017/2017-impleading party and IA No.129021/2017-
CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION and IA No.129027/2017-impleading party and
IA No.129032/2017-CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION
Signature Not Verified and IA No.1551/2018
-impleading party and IA No.6537/2018-INTERVENTION APPLICATION and
Digitally signed by
CHETAN KUMAR
Date: 2018.01.18
IA No.6666/2018-INTERVENTION APPLICATION)
16:56:50 IST
Reason:
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W.P.(C) No. 372/2017 (X)
W.P.(C) No. 1058/2017 (PIL-W)
W.P.(C) No. 966/2017 (PIL-W)
(FOR ADMISSION and IA No.102155/2017-GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF)
W.P.(C) No. 1014/2017 (PIL-W)
(FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.107091/2017-GRANT OF INTERIM
RELIEF and IA No.122999/2017-impleading party)
W.P.(C) No. 1002/2017 (PIL-W)
W.P.(C) No. 1056/2017 (X)
(and IA No.6196/2018-PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS)
CONMT.PET.(C) No. 34/2018 in W.P.(C) No. 1014/2017 (PIL-W)
(FOR ADMISSION)
W.P.(C) No. 231/2016
Date : 18-01-2018 This petition was called on for hearing today.
CORAM :
HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.K. SIKRI
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.M. KHANWILKAR
HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE D.Y. CHANDRACHUD
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ASHOK BHUSHAN
For Petitioners
Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR
Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Adv.
Mr. R.K. Rajwanshi, Adv.
Mr. Chandrashekhar Suman, Adv.
Ms. Rita Gupta, Adv.
Mr. Rajender Kumar Singh, Adv.
Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR
Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Pratap Venugopal, Adv.
Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, Adv.
Mr. Prasanna S., Adv.
Ms. Samiksha Godiyal, Adv.
Ms. Kritika Bharadwaj, Adv.
Ms. Kanika Kalaiyarasan, Adv.
M/s. K J John And Co, AOR
Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR
Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv.
Dr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR
Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, Adv.
Ms. Vidyottma, Adv.
Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR
Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv.
Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv.
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Mr. Talha Rahman, Adv.
Mr. Prateek Chadha, Adv.
Mr. Hitesh Saini, Adv.
Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR
Mr. P.B. Suresh, Adv.
Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, Adv.
Mr. S. Prasanna, Adv.
Ms. Samiksha Godiyal, Adv.
Mr. Abhay Pratap Singh, Adv.
Mr. Prithu Garg, Adv.
Mr. Govind Manoharan, Adv.
Mr. V.K. Biju, Adv.
Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR
Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR
Mr. Koshy John, Adv.
Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv.
Mr. Devanohu Sajlan, Adv.
Mr. Aditya P. Arora, Adv.
Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR
Mrs. N.S. Nappinai, Adv.
Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv.
Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv.
Mr. Prasanna, Adv.
Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR
Mr. K.V. Vishwanathan, Sr. Adv.
Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv.
Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv.
Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv.
Mr. T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR
Mr. P. Chidambaram, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Vikramaditya Singh, Adv.
Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv.
Mr. Muhammad A. Khan, Adv.
Mr. R.V. Prabhat, Adv.
Mr. Omar Hoda, Adv.
Mr. Koshy John, Adv.
Mr. Raghan Tankha, Adv.
Ms. Namrah Nasir, Adv.
Mr. Gautam Talukdar, Adv.
Petitioner-in-person
Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR
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Mr. Shashwat Goel, Adv.
Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv.
Ms. Ananya Ghose, Adv.
Mr. Gotam Bhatia, Adv.
Ms. Bhavna Das, Adv.
Mr. Anand Kr. Setia, Adv.
M/s. Meharia & Company
Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR
Ms. Cheryl D’Souza, Adv.
Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR
Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv.
Gp. Capt. Karan Singh Bhati, Adv.
Ms. Vaidruti Mishra, Adv.
Ms. Wimbie T. Sangma, Adv.
Mr. Anirben Sen, Adv.
Mr. P. Sriram, Adv.
Mr. Gopal Thiruman, Adv.
Mr. Anando Mukherjee, Adv.
Mr. Prasanna, Adv.
Ms. Stuti Vatsa, Adv.
Ms. Priyam Cherian, Adv.
Ms. Shrinidhi Rao, Adv.
Mr. Kumar Shivam, Adv.
Ms. Anindita Pujari, Adv.
Ms. Kavita Bhardwaj, Adv.
For Respondents/
Applicants Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG
Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG
Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR
Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv.
Ms. Ankur Talwar, Adv.
Ms. Shradha Deshmukh, Adv.
Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv.
Mr. Piyush Gohal, Adv.
Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv.
Mr. Fahad M. Khan, Adv.
Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv.
Ms. Aarti Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, Adv.
Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR
Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv.
Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.
Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv.
Ms. Tannishtha Singh, Adv.
Mr. Amit Meharia, Adv.
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Mr. Akhil Aggarwal, Adv.
for M/s. Meharia & Company
Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv.
Mr. Pratibhanu Sikngh Kharola, Adv.
Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Madhavam Sharma, Adv.
Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR
Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR
Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR
Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR
Ms. Fauzia Shakil, Adv.
Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv.
Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan, Adv.
Mr. Dinkar Kalra, AOR
Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR
Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv.
Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR
Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv.
Mr. H. S. Parihar, AOR
Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR
Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR
Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv.
Ms. Bina Madhavan, Adv.
Mr. Prasanth S., Adv.
Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv.
Ms. Vaishali Verma, Adv.
Ms. Shreyasi Kunwar, Adv.
for M/s. Lawyer's Knit & Co.
Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR
Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv.
Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR
Mr. Mohd. Waquas, Adv.
Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv.
Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Adv.
Ms. Savita Singh, AOR
Mr. Shrutunjay Bhardwaj, Adv.
Ms. Veera Mahuli, Adv.
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Ms. Shanee Agrawal, Adv.
Ms. Pooja Dhar, Adv.
Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR
Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR
Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv.
Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv.
Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv.
Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv.
Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR
Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR
Mr. Daniel S. Lyngdoh, Adv.
Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Adv.
Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv.
Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR
Mr. V. G. Pragasam, AOR
Mr. S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv.
Mr. S. Manuraj, Adv.
Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR
Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR
Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR
Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR
Mr. Manish Vashishtha, AOR
Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR
Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR
Mr. S. Mukerjee, Adv.
Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR
Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv.
Mr. A. Mariarputham, AG
Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv.
Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv.
Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv.
Ms. Simran Jeet, Adv.
M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co.
Mr. J.S. Attri, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR
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Mr. Chandra Nand Jha, Adv.
M/s. Corporate Law Group
Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR
Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR
Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR
Mr. R. Sudhinder, Adv.
Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR
Ms. Amrita Sarkar, Adv.
Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR
Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv.
Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR
Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv.
Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv.
Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv.
Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR
Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, AOR
Mr. Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Adv.
Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR
Ms. Shikha Agrawal, Adv.
Intervenor-in-person, AOR
Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR
Mr. Dipesh Sinha, Adv.
Ms. Ayiala Imti, Adv.
Applicant-in-person, AOR
Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR
Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR
Mr. Wills Mathews, Adv.
Mr. Ashish Kumar Sinha, Adv.
Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR
M/s. Khaitan & Co.
Mr. Harsh Kaushik, AOR
Mr. K. R. Sasiprabhu, AOR
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Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv.
Ms. Nina Gupta, Adv.
Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR
Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv.
Mr. Tushar Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Julien George, Adv.
Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv.
Ms. Arundhati Gopal, Adv.
Mr. Nikhil Nayar, Adv.
Mr. Nishe Rajan Shonker, Adv.
Mrs. Anu K. Joy, Adv.
Mr. Manav Vohra, Adv.
Mr. Krishna Dev, Adv.
Mr. Amit Krishna, Adv.
Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.A., Adv.
Ms. Svadha Shankar, Adv.
Mr. Alam Anwar, Adv.
Mr. Reegan S. Bel, Adv.
Mr. K.T.S. Tulsi, Sr. Adv.
Ms. Ashima Mandla, Adv.
Ms. Pallavi Malhotra, Adv.
Mr. Fuzail Ahmed Ayubbi, Adv.
Mr. Ibad Mushtaq, Adv.
Mr. Jawad Tarik, Adv.
Mr. Siddhant Sharma, Adv.
Ms. Mandakini Singh, Adv.
Ms. Deepali Dwivedi, Adv.
Mr. Gaurave Bhargava, Adv.
Mr. Kuber Boddh, Adv.
Ms. Priyanka Aggarwal, Adv.
Mr. A. Faraz Khan, Adv.
Mr. Navandeep Singh Matta, Adv.
Mr. Varun Mishra, Adv.
Mr. Abdul Qadir, Adv.
Ms. Aditi Gupta, Adv.
Mr. J.M. Kalia, Adv.
Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv.
Ms. Shivani Khandekar, Adv.
Mr. Aman Shukla, Adv.
Mr. Samar Kachwaha, Adv.
Mr. B. Vivekananda, Adv.
Mr. Divyanshu Srivastava, Adv.
Mr. Viren Sibal, Adv.
Mr. Edward Belho, Adv.
Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv.
Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.
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Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv.
Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv.
Mrs. G. Indira, Adv.
Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv.
Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv.
Mr. K.V. Vijayakumar, Adv.
Ms. Maitreyee Mishra, Adv.
Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv.
Mr. Devadatt Kamat, Adv.
Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv.
Mrs. Priya Aristotle, Adv.
Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv.
Mr. Ashish Yadav, Adv.
Mr. P.V. Surendranath, Sr. Adv.
Mr./Ms. Resmitha R. Chandran, Adv.
Mr. Ajay Bansal, Adv.
Mr. Gaurav Yadava, Adv.
Mrs. Veena Bansal, Adv.
Mr. Kuldip Singh, Adv.
UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following
O R D E R
Mr. Shyam Divan, learned senior counsel for the petitioners resumed his arguments.
Put up for further hearing on 23.1.2018.
(Deepak Guglani) (H.S. Parasher) Court Master Assistant Registrar