ITEM NO.23+32 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 (Criminal) No.428/2020

CITIZENS FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ANR. Respondent(s)

(With IA No.135049/2020 - EX-PARTE STAY, IA No.135052/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No.26539/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No.7691/2021 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION and IA No. 26535/2021 - STAY APPLICATION)

WITH W.P.(C) No.63/2022 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.40/2023 (PIL-W) (With IA No.8306/2023-EX-PARTE STAY) W.P.(Crl.) No.14/2023 (PIL-W) (With IA No.10891/2023-STAY APPLICATION) S.L.P.(C) No.22733/2022 (IV-C) (With IA No.193242/2022-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) S.L.P.(C) Nos.19945-19946/2021 (III) (FOR I.R. and IA No.189377/2022 - STAY APPLICATION) T.P.(C) No.199/2023 (XVI-A) W.P.(Crl.) No.36/2023 (PIL-W) (With IA No.23571/2023-STAY APPLICATION) Crl.A. Nos.1033-1034/2022 (II) (With IA No 46177/2019 - APPLICATION FOR FILING THE PETITION WITHOUT DISCLOSING THE IDENTITY OF THE PETITIONER/RESPONDENT, IA No.193843/2019 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. and IA No.46176/2019 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) W.P.(C) No. 124/2023 (PIL-W)

T.P.(C) Diary No.3670/2023

Date : 17-03-2023 These matters were called on for hearing today. Digitally signed by CHETAN KUMAR Date: 2023.03.22 17:51:36 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

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CORAM :
	HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE<br>HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA<br>HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J.B. PARDIWALA
For Petitioner(s)<br>WPR 428/2020 &<br>WPR 14/2023	Mr. Chander Uday Singh, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Srishti Agnihotri, AOR<br>Mr. Amjid Maqbool, Adv.<br>Ms. Viddusshi Shandilya, Adv.<br>Mr. Zubin John, Adv.<br>Ms. Bidya Mohanty, Adv.<br>Ms. Sanjana Grace Thomas, Adv.<br>Ms. Mantika Vohra, Adv.
WPC 63/2022	Mr. Ashwani Kumar Dubey, AOR
WPC 40/2023	Mr. Shahid Nadeem, Adv.<br>Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, AOR<br>Mr. Saif Zia, Adv.
SLPC 22733/2022	Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG<br>Mr. Saurabh Mishra, AAG<br>Mr. Bharat Singh, AAG<br>Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR<br>Mr. Abhimanyu Singh, Adv.
SLPC 19945-46/2021	Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR<br>Ms. Devyani Bhatt, Adv.
TPC 199/2023	Ms. Nupur Kumar, AOR
WPR 36/2023	Ms. Vrinda Grover, Adv.<br>Mr. Aakarsh Kamra, AOR
Crl.A.1033-34/2022	Mr. Santosh Paul, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Sanbha Rumnong, Adv.<br>Mr. Jaiwant Patankar, Adv.<br>Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., AOR
WPC 124/2023	Mr. Sanjay Parikh, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Abhimanue Shrestha, AOR

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TPC D.3670/2023	Mr. M.R. Shamshad
For Respondent(s)	Mr. Arijit Sarkar, Adv.<br>Ms. Nabeela Jamil, Adv.<br>Mr. Niaz A. Farooqui, Adv.<br>Mr. M. R. Shamshad, AOR
	Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR
	Mr. Anas Tanwir, AOR
	Ms. Ruchira Goel, AOR
	Mr. Saurabh Mishra, AAG<br>Mr. Bharat Singh, AAG<br>Mr. D.S. Parmar, AAG<br>Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR<br>Mr. Abhimanyu Singh, Adv.
	Mr. Krishnam Mishra, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajeev Kumar Dubey, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashiwan Mishra, Adv.<br>Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, AOR
	Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, AOR<br>Mr. Abhishek Chaterjee, Adv.<br>Ms. Rachna Ghandhi, Adv.
	Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR<br>Mr. Akshay C. Shrivastava, Adv.<br>Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv.<br>Mrs. Pratishtha Vij, Adv.
	Mr. Bijan Kumar Ghosh, AOR
	Dr. A.P. Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. V.P. Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Geeta Chauhan, Adv.<br>Ms. Richa Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Pratima Rani, Adv.<br>Mr. Sadashiv, AOR

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Ms. Priya Aristotle, AOR Ms. Jyoti Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Shekhawat, Adv. Ms. Sheela Washington, Adv. Mr. Anas Tanwir, AOR Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Mr. Dhiraj Abraham Philip, AOR Mr. Saurabh Mishra, AAG Mr. Bharat Singh, AAG Mr. D.S. Parmar, AAG Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mr. Abhimanyu Singh, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Mishra, AOR Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, AOR Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv. Ms. Rajshri Dubey, Adv. Mr. H.B. Dubey, Adv. Mr. Amit P. Shahi, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gaganmeet Singh Sachdeva, Adv. Mr. Manish Dheengra, Adv. Ms. Ramya Khanna, Adv. Mr. Syed Mehdi Imam, AOR Mr. Parvez Dabas, Adv. Mr. Uzmi Zamil Husain, Adv. Mr. Tabrez Ahmad, Adv. Mr. Huzefa Ahmadi, Sr. Adv. Ms. Shahrukh Alam, Adv. Ms. Akriti Chaubey, AOR Mr. Shantanu Singh, Adv. Mr. C.U. Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. P.V. Dinesh, Adv. Ms. Sumita Hazarika, AOR Mr. Ashwani Bhardwaj, AOR

Mr. Charudatta Vijayrao Mahindrakar, AOR Mr. R Venkataramani, AG Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. Jayant K Sud, ASG Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Navanjay Mahapatra, Adv. Mr. Pratyush Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Anandh Venkataramani, Adv. Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Venkataramani, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Mehrotra, Adv. Mr. Masi Sood, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Ms. Sneha Kalita, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Nirmal Kumar Ambastha, AOR Ms. Ashmita Bisarya, Adv. Mr. Vishal Prasad, AOR Mr. Vinay Kumar Garg, Sr. Adv. Mr. Atulesh Kumar, AOR Mr. K S Rekhi, Adv. Mr. Parav Garg, Adv. Mr. Pawas Kulshrestha, Adv. Respondent-in-person Mr. Kaustubh Shukla, AOR Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Mr. Gaichangpou Gangmei, AOR Mr. Santosh Pauls, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Arjun D. Singh, Adv. Mr. Yashvir Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kaustubh Shukla, AOR Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Barr, Adv. Mr. Raju Ramachandran, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanbha Rumnong, Adv. Mr. Jaiwant Patnakar, Adv. Mr. M.F. Philip, Adv. Ms. Purnima Krishna, AOR Mr. Karamveer Yadav, Adv. Mr. Sharan Dev Thakur, A.A.G. Mr. Sarvesh Singh Baghel, AOR Mr. Adeel Ahmed, AOR Mr. Rakesh Mishra, AOR Mr. Aditya Sharma, AOR Mr. Aakarsh Kamra, AOR Mr. P. Wilson, Sr. Adv. Mr. D. Kumanan, Adv.

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

• 1 The State governments have already been directed to file their counter affidavits. The State of Himachal Pradesh has filed its counter affidavit in Writ Petition (Crl) No 428 of 2020.
• 2 For procedural convenience, we direct that where a State has more than one petition and is impleaded as a respondent in respect of a challenge to the same statute, it would be open to the concerned State to file one common counter affidavit and to adopt that affidavit in respect of other petitions.

Service shall be effected on all the concerned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners in relation to that State.

• 3 Time for the filing of counter affidavits shall stand extended by a period of three weeks. Rejoinder affidavit, if any, be filed within a period of two weeks thereafter. The same modalities may be followed by the States while filing their response to the transfer petitions.
• 4 List the Petitions on a non-miscellaneous day on 25 April 2023.
• 5 The States who are respondents in the respective proceedings shall file their counter affidavits in the meantime.

IA Nos 19997/2023 & 23885/2023 In SLP (C) No 22733/2022

1 The applications for intervention stand allowed.

(CHETAN KUMAR) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR) A.R.-cum-P.S. Assistant Registrar