Supreme Court - Daily Orders
Bhupinder Singh vs Unitech Ltd. on 28 October, 2021
Bench: D.Y. Chandrachud, M.R. Shah
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ITEM NO.301 COURT NO.4 SECTION XVII-A
S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
Civil Appeal No.10856/2016
BHUPINDER SINGH Appellant(s)
VERSUS
UNITECH LTD. Respondent(s)
(With appln.(s) for IA No.50706/2021 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/
DIRECTIONS, IA No.50683/2021 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA
No.116163/2021 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No.81663/2021 -
APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No.57580/2021 - APPROPRIATE
ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No.112090/2021 - INTERVENTION, IA
No.79304/2020 – INTERVENTION, IA No.50704/2021 – INTERVENTION/
IMPLEADMENT, IA No.81660/2021 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA
No.57581/2021 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT and IA No.5463/2021 -
PERMISSION TO PLACE ADDITIONAL FACTS AND GROUNDS)
Date : 28-10-2021 These matters were called on for hearing today.
CORAM :
HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE D.Y. CHANDRACHUD
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.R. SHAH
For Appellant(s)
Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR
For Respondent(s) Mr. N. Venkataraman, ASG
Ms. Anubha Agrawal, AOR
Ms. Madhvi Divan, ASG
Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv.
Mr. Chinmay Chandra, Adv.
Mr. Prashant Singh B, Adv.
Signature Not Verified
Mr. Siddhant Kohli, Adv.
Digitally signed by
Chetan Kumar
Date: 2021.10.29
16:50:26 IST
Reason:
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Mr. Rajan Kr. Chourasia, Adv.
Mr. Amrish Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Adv.
Mr. Shekhar Vyas, Adv.
Mr. Ayush Puri, Adv.
Ms. Praveena Gautam, Adv.
Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv.
Mr. M.K. Maroria, Adv.
Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR
Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, AOR
Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR
Mr. P.R. Ramasesh, Adv.
Mr. Ankolekar Gurudatta, AOR
Mr. Sanuj Das, Adv.
Mr. Rajendra Koushik, Adv.
Dr. Vinod Kumar Tewari, AOR
Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR
Mr. Amit Agrawal, AOR
Ms. Radhika Yadav, Adv.
Mr. Naman Khatwani, Adv.
Mr. Sonal Jain, AOR
Mr. Vikramjit Banerji, Sr. Adv.
Ms. Adity Gupta, Adv.
Ms. Jasmine Damkewala, AOR
Ms. Vaishali Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Dinesh Chander Trehan, Adv.
Mr. Gaurav Goel, AOR
Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR
Mr. Rajesh Kumar Gautam, AOR
Mr. Anant Gautam, Adv.
Mr. Nipun Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Ravi Solanki, Adv.
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Mr. Arvind Gupta, AOR
Mr. Ravindra Tiwary, Adv.
Mr. Vivek Bhojrajka, Adv.
Mr. Pankaj Singh, Adv.
Mr. Vipin Kumar, Adv.
Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR
Mr. Pradeep Chindra, Adv.
Mr. Rajan Chawla, AOR
Mr. Akshat Kumar, AOR
Mr. D.K. Rustogi, Adv.
Mr. Ravindra Kumar, AOR
Mr. Dhruv Tamta, AOR
Mr. Parag Tripathi, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Kartik Yadav, Adv.
Mr. Parinay Vasandani, Adv.
Mr. Manhar Singh Saini, Adv.
Mr. Mishika Bajpai, Adv.
Mr. Chandra Prakash, Adv.
M/s. D.S.K. Legal
Mr. Manish Kumar Gupta, AOR
Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, AOR
Ms. Vibha Mahajan, Adv.
Ms. Upasana Nath, AOR
Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chaurasia, AOR
Mr. Atul Kumar, AOR
Mr. Utsav Trivedi, Adv.
Mr. Abhinay, AOR
Mr. Milinda Sharma, Adv.
Ms. Unnati Vijay, Adv.
Ms. Shivani Bhushan, Adv.
Ms. Aishwarya Samal, Adv.
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Ms. Shruti Agarwal, AOR
Mr. Pranav Kumar, AOR
Mr. D.S. Chauhan, AOR
Ms. Ruchi Singh, Adv.
Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Deepak M. Nargolkar, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Anant Kumar Vatsya, Adv.
Dr. Avinash Poddar, Adv.
Mr. Shiv Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Ashish Kumar Sinha, Adv.
Mr. Devendra Singh, AOR
Mr. Ritin Rai, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Rajshekhar Rao, Sr. Adv.
Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR
Ms. Zehra Khan, Adv.
Ms. Kritika Bhardwaj, Adv.
Mr. Vinayak Mehrotra, Adv.
Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv.
Mr. Areeb Amanullah, Adv.
Ms. Shreya Choudhary, Adv.
Ms. Vasudha Jain, Adv.
Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Kamal Mohan Gupta, AOR
Mr. Anand Sukumar, Adv.
Mr. S. Sukumaran, Adv.
Mr. Bhupesh Kumar Pathak, Adv.
Ms. Meera Mathur, AOR
Mr. Mohit Paul, AOR
Mr. Mohit Jolly, Adv.
Ms. Chand Chopra, Adv.
Ms. Sunaina Phul, Adv.
Ms. Dipika Jain, Adv.
Mr. Kaustubh Shukla, AOR
Mr. Braj Kishore Mishra, AOR
Mr. Vinod Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Abhishek Yadav, Adv.
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Mr. Utkarsh Sharma, AOR
Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, AOR
Mr. Sharath Sampath, Adv.
Mr. Tarun Mehta, Adv.
Mr. Manikya Khanna, Adv.
Ms. Nidhi Mohan Parashar, AOR
Mr. Pratyaksh Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv.
Mr. Tushar Singh, AOR
Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, AOR
Mr. M.P. Vinod, AOR
Ms. Priyanjali Singh, AOR
Mr. Rahul Rathore, Adv.
Mr. Vikram Hegde, Adv.
Mr. Shantanu Lakhotia, Adv.
Ms. Hima Lawrence, AOR
Mr. Rajiv Mehta, AOR
Mr. Vineet Bhagat, AOR
Mr. Arvind Kumar Tewari, AOR
Ms. Sujata Kurdukar, AOR
Ms. Anshula Vijay Kumar Grover, AOR
Mr. Neeraj Kumar Gupta, AOR
Mr. Jappanpreet Hora, Adv.
Mr. Prabjot Hora, Adv.
Mr. A. Karthik, AOR
Mr. Sudhansu Palo, AOR
Mr. Ravi Panwar, AOR
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Mr. Raj Kamal, AOR
Mr. Amit Shrivastava, AOR
Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Sanjay Bhatt, Adv.
Ms. Akansha Srivastava, Adv.
Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR
Mr. Sunil Fernandes, AOR
Mr. Romy Chacko, AOR
Mr. Kumar Dushyant Singh, AOR
Ms. Rashi Bansal, AOR
Mr. Aman Raj Gandhi, AOR
Mr. Anshay Dhatwalia, Adv.
Mr. Vishnu Mohan Nair, Adv.
Ms. Kumud Nijhawan, Adv.
Mr. Ashwani Kumar, AOR
Mr. Senthil Jagadeesan, AOR
Mr. Shashank Manish, AOR
Ms. Rupy Singh Ahjuja, Adv.
Ms. Hancy Maini, Adv.
Ms. Kritika Sachdeva, Adv.
M/s. Karanjawala & Co.
Mr. Ashish Kamat, Adv.
Mr. Ajay Vazirani, Adv.
Mr. Devmalya Banerjee, Adv.
Mr. Ameya Deosthale, Adv.
Mr. Kartik Bhatnagar, Adv.
Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv.
Mr. Vardaan Wanchoo, Adv.
Ms. Sharanya Mahimtura, Adv.
Ms. Astha Prasad, Adv.
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Mr. C.K. Sasi, AOR
Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, AOR
Mr. P.K. Jain, AOR
Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR
Mr. Dushyant Sarna, Adv.
Mr. Manish Shanker Srivastava, Adv.
Mr. Vivek Srivastava, Adv.
Mr. Abhishek Kumar Singh, AOR
Ms. Pallavi Baghel, Adv.
Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR
Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR
Mr. Dileep Poolakkot, Adv.
Mr. Harshad V. Hameed, AOR
Mrs. Ashly Harshad, Adv.
Mr. Nitin Saluja, AOR
Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR
Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, AOR
Mr. Vipin Kumar Jai, AOR
Mr. Aakarsh Kamra, AOR
Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv.
Ms. Nina Gupta, Adv.
Ms. Ananya Marwah, Adv.
Ms. Ruchika Joshi, Adv.
Mr. P.V. Yogeswaran, AOR
Mr. Nikilesh Ramachandran, AOR
Mr. Pratap Venugopal, Adv.
Ms. Surekha Raman, Adv.
Mr. Akhil Abraham Roy, Adv.
Mr. Vijay Valsan, Adv.
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M/s. K J John And Co.
Mr. Divyesh Pratap Singh, AOR
Mr. Nakul Mohta, Adv.
Ms. Misha Rohatgi, AOR
Mr. Devansh Shrivastava, Adv.
M/s. Udit Kishan And Associates
Mr. Preshit Vilas Surshe, AOR
Mr. Ashish Virmani, AOR
Mr. B. Ramana Murthy, AOR
Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR
Mr. V.K. Monga, AOR
Ms. Astha Tyagi, AOR
Mr. Abhisth Kumar, AOR
Ms. Vibha Datta Makhija, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Shariq Ahmed, Adv.
Mr. Tariq Ahmed, Adv.
Mr. Praveen Gaurav, Adv.
Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR
Petitioner-in-person
Mr. M.L. Lahoty, Adv.
Mr. Paban K. Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Anchit Sripat, Adv.
Ms. Shikha Dixit, Adv.
Mr. Janak Dwarkadas, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Chitranshul A Sinha, Adv.
Mr. Anil Agarwal, Adv.
Mr. Chirag Kamdar, Adv.
Mr. Jaskaran Singh Bhatia, Adv.
M/s. Dua Associates
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Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv.
Ms. Varuna Bhanrale, Adv.
Mr. Sumit Nagpal, Adv.
Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Sr. Adv.
Ms. Pritha Srikumar Iyer, Adv.
Mr. Naveen Hegde, Adv.
Ms. Mansi Binjrajka, Adv.
Mr. Vikram Nankani, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Vipin Jain, Adv.
Mr. Shwetabh Sinha, Adv.
Mr. Ujjal Banerjee, Adv.
Mr. Ashish Rao, Adv.
Mr. Akash Khurana, Adv.
UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following
O R D E R
IA No 50683/2021 in CA No 10856/2016 1 Mr N Venkataraman, learned Additional Solicitor General has submitted a report titled ‘Action Taken Report – II’ in pursuance of the previous order of this Court dated 21 October 2021.
2 Since the report contains averments in relation to the agreements which have been entered into by Suraksha ARC with ICICI group entities and with the erstwhile management of Unitech Limited, we consider it appropriate to grant some time to the learned counsel for Suraksha ARC to take instructions and respond to the Action Taken Report – II.
3 We permit the new Board of Management of Unitech Limited constituted by the Government of India to proceed ahead with the appointment of Project Management Consultants for Part A of the Scope of Work, except the Award of Contracts. Part A of the work to be done by the PMCs at this stage shall cover the following items (except vii below):
CA 10856/2016 10(i) Complete the process of verification of present status of each project site and finalization of accounts of the existing contractors;
(ii) Undertake and complete the process of fore-closure/ abrogation of the existing contracts and handing over and taking over of Works;
(iii) Preparation of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for the balance works of each project, comprising the Bill of Quantities (BOQs) and the Cost Estimates of balance works;
(iv) Preparation of the Tender Documents for the balance works of all the project sites;
(v) Preparation of budget, cash flow requirements and time-
lines for Completion Programme of each project;
(vi) Appraise the need for preparation and submission of revised layout plans/ building plans and assist in submission and approval of such revised layouts/ building plans from the respective competent authorities;
(vii) Complete the Bid management process (including Preparation of bid document, invitation of bids and their evaluation) and submit recommendations to the Management;
(viii) Prepare the completion schedule along with budget and cash-flow requirements for completion of the projects;
(ix) Develop the Management Information System and CA 10856/2016 11 Reporting formats covering the complete scope of work for creation and maintenance of records and effective monitoring of the progress of work.
4 We clarify that at this stage, no award of contracts shall be undertaken by the PMCs without the express prior permission of this Court. The ambit of the work of PMCs shall exclude item (vii) above at the present stage. The above permission shall be without prejudice to the rights and contentions of all the secured creditors.
5 Paragraph 4 of the affidavit dated 16 August 2021 filed by the Chief Operating Officer on behalf of the new Board of Management clarifies that the fees payable to the PMCs for Part A of the Scope of Work (Pre-Project Activities) is 0.45% of the initially estimated costs. The estimated costs on the basis of which 0.45% is to be computed are Rs 5,000 crores, subject to finalization.
6 List the application on 10 November 2021 at 3.00 pm. IA 57580 and 57581 of 2021 in Civil Appeal No 10856 of 2016, IA 81660 and 81663 of 2021 in Civil Appeal No 10856 of 2016, IA No 112090 of 2021 IA 50704 and 50706 of 2021 in Civil Appeal No 10856 of 2016 with IA Nos 79304 of 2020 and IA No 5463 of 2021 1 List the applications at 3 pm on 10 November 2021.
(CHETAN KUMAR) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR)
A.R.-cum-P.S. Court Master