Supreme Court - Daily Orders
Justice K.S.Puttaswamy(Retd) vs Union Of India on 24 April, 2018
Bench: Chief Justice, A.K. Sikri, A.M. Khanwilkar, D.Y. Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan
WP(C) 494/2012 etc.
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ITEM NO.501 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 and IA No.10105/2018-INTERVENTION
APPLICATION and IA No.10355/2018-impleading party and IA
No.13628/2018-impleading party and IA No.24406/2018-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)
(and IA No.22171/2018-INTERVENTION APPLICATION and IA
No.22174/2018-PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON)
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)
W.P.(C) No. 231/2016 (PIL-W)
(FOR ON IA 1/2016 - DIRECTION FOR ON IA 2/2016 - PERMISSION TO
AMEND WRIT PETITION AND RAISING ADDTIONAL GROUNDS))
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)
Signature Not Verified
(FOR PERMISSION
Digitally signed by
DEEPAK GUGLANI
TO FILE ANNEXURES ON IA 4/2016,
FOR DIRECTIONS ON IA 5/2017, FOR STAY APPLICATION ON IA 6/2017)
Date: 2018.04.24
16:45:43 IST
Reason:
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-
WP(C) 494/2012 etc.
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CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION and IA No.129027/2017-impleading party and
IA No.129032/2017-CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION and IA No.1551/2018-
impleading party and IA No.6537/2018-INTERVENTION APPLICATION and
IA No.6666/2018-INTERVENTION APPLICATION)
W.P.(C) No. 372/2017 (X)
W.P.(C) No. 841/2017 (X)
(FOR ADMISSION and IA No.119235/2017-AMENDMENT OF THE PETITION)
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)
Date : 24-04-2018 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. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR
Ms. Vidyottma, Adv.
Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR
Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv.
Mr. Anirben Sen, Adv.
Mr. Gopal Thiruman, Adv.
Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv.
Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv.
Ms. Vaidruti Mishra, Adv.
Mr. Amit Verma, Adv.
Mr. Vishwajeet Singh, Adv.
Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv.
Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv.
Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv.
Mr. T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR
Mr. Muhammad Ali Khan, Adv.
Mr. Vikramaditya Singh, Adv.
Mr. R.V. Prabhat, Adv.
Mr. Gaurav Gupta, Adv.
WP(C) 494/2012 etc.
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Mr. Omar Hoda, Adv.
Mr. Jaspal Singh, Adv.
Mr. Zafar Khurshid, Adv.
Ms. Prianka Rao Khan, Adv.
Mr. Abishek Jebraj, Adv.
Mr. Namra Nasir, Adv.
Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR
State of W.B. Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Adv.
Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Harsh Hiroo Gursahani, Adv.
Mr. Vishal Prasad, Adv.
Mr. Amit Verma, Adv.
for M/s. PLR Chambers And Co., AOR
Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR
Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Adv.
Mr. Rajendra Kumar Singh, Adv.
Mrs. Rita Gupta, Adv.
Ms. Deepshikha Bharati, Adv.
Ms. Harsha, Adv.
Dr. Anindita Pujari, Adv.
Ms. Kavita Bhardwaj, Adv.
Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv.
Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR
Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv.
M/s. K.J. John And Co, AOR
M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR
Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR
Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR
Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR
Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR
Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR
Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR
Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR
Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR
Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR
Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR
WP(C) 494/2012 etc.
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Petitioner-in-person
For Respondents/
Applicants Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG
for UOI Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG
Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv.
Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv.
Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv.
Ms. Charanya L., Adv.
Mr. Rohit Bhat, Adv.
Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.
Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv.
Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv.
Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv.
Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv.
Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv.
Ms. Bhavita Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Vivek Gurnani, Adv.
Ms. Priyanka Walesha, Adv.
Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv.
Mr. Harish V. Shenkar, Adv.
Ms. Rukmani Bobde, Adv.
Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv.
Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv.
Mr. M.K. Maroria, Adv.
for UIDAI Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR
Ms. Sanskriti Pathak, Adv.
Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv.
State of Gujarat Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR
Ms. Sanskriti Pathak, Adv.
Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv.
Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR
State of Kerala Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Nishe Rajan Shonker, Adv.
Ms. Annu K. Joy, Adv.
Mr. Manav Vohra, Adv.
Mr. Krishna Dev J., Adv.
Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.A., Adv.
Ms. Svadha Shankar, Adv.
Mr. Amith Krishna, Adv.
Mr. Alim Anwar, Adv.
Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Adv.
Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv.
Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv.
Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, AOR
WP(C) 494/2012 etc.
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State of Jharkhand Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR
Mr. Mohd. Naquas, Adv.
Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv.
Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv.
Mr. Ratan Kumar Choudhuri, Adv.
Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR
Mr. Avnish M. Oza, Adv.
Mr. Chirag Jain, Adv.
Mr. Shamit Mukherjee, Adv.
Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR
Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv.
Mr. Ashish Kumar Mishra, Adv.
State of W.B. Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Adv.
Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Harsh Hiroo Gursahani, Adv.
Mr. Vishal Prasad, Adv.
Mr. Amit Verma, Adv.
for M/s. PLR Chambers And Co., AOR
State of Haryana Mr. Anil Grover, AAG, Haryana
Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR
State of Uttarakhand Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR
Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv.
State of Maghalaya Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR
Mr. Daniel Stone Lyngdoh, Adv.
Mr. K.V. Kharlyngdoh, Adv.
State of Assam Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv.
Mr. Sayooj Mohandas M., Adv.
State of Tripura Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv.
Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv.
For TRAI Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR
Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv.
Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv.
Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv.
For RBI Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv.
Mr. H.S. Parihar, AOR
State of T.N. Mr. K.V. Vijayakumar, AOR
Ms. Maitreyee Mishra, Adv.
Ms. Kiran Karan Chawla, Adv.
WP(C) 494/2012 etc.
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State of Mizoram Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Adv.
Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv.
Mr. T.G. Narayanan Nair, AOR
State of Nagaland Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv.
Mr. Edward Belho, AAG, Nagaland
Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.
Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv.
Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv.
State of Karnataka Mr. Devadatt Kamat, AAG, Karnataka
Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv.
Mrs. Priya Aristotle, Adv.
Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv.
Mr. Javedur Rehman, Adv.
Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv.
State of Punjab Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv.
State of Sikkim Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv.
Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv.
Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv.
M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR
Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR
Ms. Fauzia Shakil, Adv.
Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv.
Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan, Adv.
UT of A&N Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv.
Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv.
Mrs. G. Indira, AOR
State of Telangana Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR
Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv.
UT of Puducherry Mr. V.G. Pragasam, AOR
Mr. S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv.
Mr. S. Manuraj, Adv.
State of Manipur Mr. Leishangthem Roshmani Kh., Adv.
Ms. Maibam Baibna, Adv.
Mr, Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Adv.
Ms. Savita Singh, AOR
Ms. Shanu, Adv.
Mr. Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj, Adv.
Ms. Veera Mahuli, Adv.
State of Andhra Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR
Pradesh Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv.
WP(C) 494/2012 etc.
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Mr. Wills Mathews, Adv.
Mr. Shaji Sebastian, Adv.
Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR
M/s. Lawyers Knit & Co, AOR
M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR
Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR
Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR
Mr. Dinkar Kalra, AOR
Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR
Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR
Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR
Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR
Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR
Mr. T.G. Narayanan Nair, AOR
Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR
M/s. Corporate Law Group, AOR
Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR
Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR
Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR
Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR
Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR
Applicant-in-person, AOR
Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR
Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR
Intervenor-in-person, AOR
Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR
Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR
WP(C) 494/2012 etc.
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Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR
Mr. Manish Vashishtha, AOR
Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR
M/s. Khaitan & Co., AOR
Mr. Harsh Kaushik, AOR
Mr. K.R. Sasiprabhu, AOR
Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR
Mr. M.P. Vinod, AOR
I.A. 6537/2018 & Mr. P.V. Surendra Nath, Sr. Adv.
6666/2018 Ms. Resmitha R. Chandran, Adv.
Ms. Lekha Sudhakaran, Adv.
Mr. Sriram P., Adv.
Ms. Khusbu Jain, Adv.
Mr. Vishnu Shankar M.S., Adv.
Ms. Athira G. Nair, Adv.
I.A. 1551/2018 Mr. Sajan Poovayya, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv.
Mr. Pratibhanu Singh Kharola, Adv.
Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Saransh Jain, Adv.
Mr. Madhavam Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Meka Venkata Ram Krishna, Adv.
Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR
Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR
Mr. R. Sudhinder, Adv.
Ms. Saumya Mehrotra, Adv.
Ms. Amrita Sarkar, Adv.
Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR
Mr. Mohd. Shahid Hussain, Adv.
Mr. Saikrishna Rajgopal, Adv.
Mr. Julien George, Adv.
Ms. Arundhati Gopal, Adv.
Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv.
Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Adv.
I.A. 5890/2018 Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv.
Ms. Shivani Khandekar, Adv.
WP(C) 494/2012 etc.
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I.A. 24406/2018 Ms. Aparna Bhat, Adv.
Mr. Mayank Sapra, Adv.
I.A. 10105/2018 Mr. Jawahar Raja, Adv.
Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Chinmay Kanojia, Adv.
Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv.
Ms. Nina Gupta, Adv.
Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv.
Ms. Shrieen Shukla, Adv.
Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR
UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following
O R D E R
Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, learned senior counsel appearing for the State of Gujarat and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) continued his arguments, which remained inconclusive.
Put up for further hearing tomorrow (25.4.2018).
(Deepak Guglani) (H.S. Parasher)
Court Master Assistant Registrar