Union Of India vs. Edelweiss Rural And Corporate Services Ltd

ITEM NO.3 COURT NO.4 SECTION III

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No(s).13958/2020

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 23-01-2020 in SCA No. 726/2018 passed by the High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad)

UNION OF INDIA & ANR. Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

M/S MOHIT MINERALS PVT. LTD. THROUGH DIRECTOR Respondent(s)

(WITH IA No. 119577/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT, IA No. 113728/2021 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 113334/2021 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 112877/2021 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 74108/2021 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 118754/2021 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION)

WITH SLP(C) No. 16071/2020 (III) (WITH IA No. 136554/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT)

SLP(C) No. 3540/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 28816/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT)

SLP(C) No. 3680/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 29739/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT, IA No. 89398/2021 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES)

SLP(C) No. 17303/2021 (XV)

SLP(C) No. 28621/2019 (III)

SLP(C) No. 30152/2019 (III)

SLP(C) No. 14277/2020 (III) (WITH IA No. 122355/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT)

SLP(C) No. 15994/2020 (III) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R.) Digitally signed by Sanjay Kumar Date: 2021.12.15 16:59:54 IST Reason:

Signature Not Verified

Diary No(s). 27016/2020 (III) (WITH IA No. 1682/2021 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING) Diary No(s). 27023/2020 (III) (WITH IA No. 135983/2020 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING IA No. 135984/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 1788/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 12904/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) Diary No(s). 27027/2020 (III) (WITH IA No. 136025/2020 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING, IA No. 136026/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 16033/2020 (III) (WITH IA No. 136001/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 439/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 2384/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 16012/2020 (III) (WITH IA No. 135728/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 3081/2021 (III) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.25059/2021-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT, IA No. 119133/2021 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) SLP(C) No. 44/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 356/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 16079/2020 (III) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.136666/2020-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) Diary No(s). 27234/2020 (III) (WITH IA No. 132802/2020 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING, IA No. 132804/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 15995/2020 (III) (WITH IA No. 135558/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 598/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 3107/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 1281/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 8669/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT)

SLP(C) No. 16093/2020 (III) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.136929/2020-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 292/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 1025/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 843/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 4963/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 1100/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 6510/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 1277/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 8589/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 1268/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 8426/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 660/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 3478/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 1798/2021 (III) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.12995/2021-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 1625/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 11508/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 2183/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 16418/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 2242/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 17148/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 2198/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 16605/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 2736/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 21207/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT)

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SLP(C) No. 3283/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 26976/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 3462/2021 (III) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.28606/2021-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 3654/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 29566/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 3760/2021 (III) (WITH IA No. 30536/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 4366/2021 (III) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.37491/2021-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 16779/2021 (XV) Date : 15-12-2021 These matters were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE D.Y. CHANDRACHUD HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKRAM NATH For Petitioner(s) Mr. N. Venkataraman, ASG Ms. Nisha Bagchi, Adv. Mr. Rupesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, Adv. Mr. Sharath Narayan Nambiar, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR For Respondent(s) Mr. Harish N Salve, Sr. Adv. SLP 13958/20, 15994/20, Mr. J.K. Mittal, Adv. 1788/21, 16079/20, Ms. Vandana Mittal, Adv. 292/21, 1100/21 & Ms. Aashna Suri, Adv. 1268/21 Ms. Neeha Nagpal, Adv. Mr. Malak Manish Bhatt, AOR SLP 13958/2020 Mr. Tarun Gulati, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sparsh Bhargava, Adv. Mr. Ankit Sachdeva, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Mathur, Adv. Mr. Kamal Kumar Arya, Adv. Ms. Anishka Gupta, Adv. Mr. Rahul Jain, AOR

SLP 13958/2020	Mr. G. Natarajan, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajesh Kumar Gautam, AOR<br>Mr. Kartik Jindal, Adv.<br>Ms. Pallavi Ganesh, Adv.<br>Mr. Parmeet Singh, Adv.
SLP 16071/2020	Mr. Joseph Pookkatt, Adv.<br>Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Nilesh Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Dhawesh Pahuja, Adv.<br>M/s. AP & J Chambers
SLP 3540/21, 1281,<br>1277,2242,2198,2736/21	Mr. Uchit Sheth, Adv.<br>Mr. Santosh Krishnan, AOR
SLP 3680/2021	Dr. C. Manickam, Adv.<br>Mr. Ranjan Kumar, AOR<br>Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Kapil Dev Yadav, Adv.<br>Ms. Neetu Rani, Adv.
SLP 17303/2021	Mr. Rishabh Sancheti, Adv.<br>Mr. Sharad Kothari, Adv.<br>Ms. Padma Priya, Adv.<br>Mr. Anchit Bhandari, Adv.<br>Mr. Sushant Rao, Adv.<br>Mr. K. Paarivendhan, AOR
SLP 28621/2019	Mr. Anurag Rawat, Adv.<br>Mr. Shoaib Khan, Adv.<br>Ms. Lara Siddiqui, Adv.<br>Mr. Arvind Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Prahlad Narayan Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Vivek Mishra, Adv.<br>Ms. Mansha Shukla, Adv.<br>Mr. Sameer Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Devendra Singh, AOR
SLP 30152/2019	Mr. Prasad Paranjape, Adv.<br>Mr. Arun Jain, Adv.<br>Mr. Jasdeep Singh Dhillon, Adv.<br>Mr. Rahul Gupta, AOR<br>Mr. Prabhat Kumar Chaurasia, Adv.
SLP 14277/2020	Mr. Devashish K Trivedi, Adv.<br>Ms. Shagufa Salim, AOR<br>Mr. Jatin Chaudhary, Adv.
SLP D.27016/2020	Mr. Shamik Shirishbhai Sanjanwala, AOR
SLP 16033/2020 &<br>SLP 3283/2020	Mr. Tarun Gulati, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Kumar Visalaksh, Adv.<br>Mr. Udit Jain, Adv.

	Ms. Ruchita Shah, Adv.<br>Mr. Gopal Mundhra, Adv.<br>Mr. Parth Parekh, Adv.<br>Mr. Archit Gupta, Adv.<br>Mr. Ajitesh Dayal Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Arihant Tater, Adv.<br>Mr. Abhishek Vikas, AOR
SLP 3081/21, 1625/21 &<br>3760/21	Mr. V. Sridharan, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Aditya Bhattacharya, Adv.<br>Ms. Apeksha Mehta, Adv.<br>Mr. Sriram Sridharan, Adv.<br>Mr. Anand Nainawati, Adv.<br>Mr. Sahil Parghi, Adv.<br>Ms. Mounica Kasturi, Adv.<br>Mr. Akash Pratap Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Charanya Lakshmikumaran, AOR
SLP 598/2021	Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR
SLP 16093/2020	Mr. Simranjeet Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Rhea Dube, Adv.<br>Ms. Rudrakshi Deo, Adv.<br>Mr. Mizan Siddiqui, Adv.<br>Mr. Sudhir Kumar Gupta, AOR<br>Mr. Manish Gupta, Adv.
SLP 843/2021	Mr. Vikram Nankani, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Anshuman Srivastava, Adv.<br>Mr. Rohan Talwar, Adv.<br>Mr. Abhinabh Garg, Adv<br>Mr. E.C. Agarwala, AOR
SLP 660/2021<br>13958/2020	Mr. Abhishek A Rastogi, Adv.<br>Mr. Pratyushprava Saha, Adv.<br>Mr. Mahir Chablani, Adv.<br>Mr. Rohit Ghosh, Adv.<br>M/s. Khaitan & Co.
SLP 1798/2021	Mr. Shashank Shekhar, Adv.<br>Mr. Tushar Joshi, Adv.<br>Mr. Pranav Bansal, Adv.<br>Mr. Aman Bansal, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajat Mittal, AOR
SLP 2183/2021	Mr. Parijat Sinha, AOR<br>Mr. Devesh Mishra, Adv.<br>Ms. Pallak Bhagat, Adv.<br>Ms. Reshmi Rea Sinha, Adv.<br>Ms. Akriti Jain, Adv.

SLP 3462/2021	Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Harish Bindumadhavan, Adv.<br>Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv.<br>Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, AOR<br>Mr. Ashwini Chandrasekharan, Adv.
SLP 16779/2021<br>13958/2020	Mr. Vinay Shraff, Adv.<br>Mr. Ravi Bharuka, AOR<br>Mr. Ankit Kanodia, Adv.<br>Mr. Ankit Agarwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Prateek Gattani, Adv.

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

• 1 Arguments heard in part.
• 2 List the Special Leave Petitions tomorrow (16 December 2021) on the top of the Board.

AR-CUM-PS COURT MASTER

(SANJAY KUMAR-I) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR)