S. G. Vombatkere vs. Union Of India Ministry Of Home Affairs Secretary

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.) AND ANR. Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. Respondent(s)

(With appln.(s) for impleading party, clarification/direction and intervention)

WITH W.P.(C) No.833/2013 (PIL-W)

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Date : 24-01-2018 These petitions were 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 Petitioner(s) Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. R.K. Rajwanshi, Adv. Mr. R.K. Rajwanshi, Adv. Mrs. Rita Gupta, Adv. Mr. Rajender Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Deepshikha Bharati, Adv. Ms. Harsha Manav, Adv. Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pratap Venugopal, Adv. Mr. Anuj Sarma, Adv. Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Prasanna S., Adv. Ms. Samiksha Godiyal, Adv. Ms. Kritika Bharadwaj, Adv. Ms. Kanika Kalaiyarasan, Adv. for M/s. K J John And Co., AOR Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Mr. Ravinder Lokhande, Adv. Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Talha Rahman, 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. V.K. Biju, Adv. Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR

Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Prasanna S., Adv. Ms. Stuti Vatsa, Adv. Mr. Kumar Anurag Singh, Adv. Mr. Kumar Shivam, Adv. Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR Mr. Koshy John, Adv. Mr. Arvind P. Datar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Prasanna S., Adv. Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, 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 Petitioner-in-person Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv. Ms. Ananya Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Ms. Bhavna Das, Adv. Mr. Anand Kumar Sethi, Adv. M/s. Meharia & Company Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Ms. Cheryl D'Souza, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv. Mr. Gopal Subramaniam, Sr. Adv. Ms. Vaidruti Mishra, Adv. Ms. Wimbie V.T. Sangma, Adv. Mr. P. Sriram, Adv. Gp. Capt. Karan Singh Bhati, Adv. Mr. Gopal Thiruman, Adv. Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. Muhammad Ali Khan, Adv. Mr. R.V. Prabhat, Adv. Mr. Vikramaditya Singh, Adv. Mr. Omar Hoda, Adv.

Ms. Priyanka Rao, Adv. Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv. Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR For Respondent(s) Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR Ms. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Ms. Shradha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv. Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv. Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. Fahad M. Khan, Adv. Mr. Kano Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv. Ms. Aarti Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv. Mr. Prashant Rawat, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, Adv. Ms. Bina Madhavan, Adv. Ms. Swati Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Piyush Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Prateek Dhir, Adv. Ms. Ramandeep Kaur, Adv. Ms. Shreyasi Kunwar, Adv. M/s. Lawyer S Knit & Co. Mr. Amit Meharia, Adv. Ms. Tannishtha Singh, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv. Ms. Ayushi Gupta, Adv. Mr. Akhil Agarwal, Adv. for M/s. Meharia & Company, Advs. Mr. Sajan Poovayya, Sr. Adv. Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Pratibhanu Sikngh Kharola, Adv. Mr. Saransh Jain, Adv. Mr. Madhavam Sharma, Adv. for 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. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR 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. Mr. Shanu Agrawal, 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. Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv. Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Daniel Stone 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. William Vinoth Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sampath Kumar C., 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. Anil Grover, Adv. Ms. Noopur Singhal, Adv. Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, Adv. Mr. L. Mohapatra, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co. Mr. J.S. Attri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Suman Rani, Adv. Mr. Chandra Nand Jha, Adv. Mr. Varinder Kr. Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Adv. M/s. Corporate Law Group Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR Mr. Avnish M. Oza, Adv. Mr. Chirag Jain, Adv. Charudatta Mahindrakar, Adv. Mr. A Selvin Raja, Adv. Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR Mr. R. Sudhinder, Adv. Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Ms. Amrita Sarkar, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR

Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hussain, Adv. Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, AOR Intervenor-in-person Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Mr. Dipesh Sinha, Adv. Ms. Ayiala Imti, Adv. Applicant-in-person, AOR Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv. Mr. Navnit Saxena, Adv. Mr. Devanshu Sajlan, Adv. Mr. Aditya P. Arora, Adv. Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR Mr. Wills Mathews, Adv. Mr. Ginesh P., Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Singha, Adv. Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR Ms. Vanita Bhargava, Adv. Mr. Ajay Bhargava, Adv. Mr. Abhisaar Bairagi, Adv. for M/s. Khaitan & Co., Advs. Mr. Harsh Kaushik, AOR Mr. K. R. Sasiprabhu, AOR Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv. Ms. Nina Gupta, Adv. Mr. Tushar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv.

Mr. Nishe Rajan Shonker, Adv. Mrs. Annu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Alam Anwar, Adv. Mr. Reegan S. Bel, Adv. Mr. Manav Vohra, Adv. Mr. Krishna Dev J., Adv. Mr. Amith Krishnan, Adv. Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.A., Adv. Ms. Svadha Shankar, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Ms. Anindita Pujari, Adv. Ms. Kavita Bhardwaj, Adv. Ms. Ashima Mandla, Adv. Mr. Fuzail Ahmed Ayubbi, Adv. Ms. Mandakini Singh, Adv. Mr. Sidhant Sharma, Adv. Ms. Deepali Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Gaurave Bhargava, Adv. Mr. Kuber Boddh, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Nayandeep Singh Matta, Adv. Mr. I. Mushtaq, Adv Mr. J.M. Kalia, Adv. Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv. Ms. Shivani Khandekar, Adv. Mr. Aman Shukla, Adv. Mr. B. Vivekananda, Adv. Mr. Edward Belho, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv. Mr. Sayooj Mohandas M., Adv. Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv. Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Mrs. G. Indira, Adv. Mr. K.V. Vijayakumar, Adv. Ms. Maitreyee Mishra, Adv. Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv. Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Chitta Ranjan Mishra, Adv.

Mr. Rahul Baid, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. S. Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, Adv. Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv. Mr. Leishangthem Roshmani Kh., Adv. Ms. Haibam Babina, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv. Mr. A. Mariarputham, Sr. Adv. Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Ms. Simran Jeet, Adv. Mr. Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Adv. Mr. Chanchal K. Ganguli, Adv. Ms. Shikha Aggrawal, Adv. Mr. Raja Chatterjee, Adv. Mr. Piysh Sachdeva, Adv. Ms. Narmada, Adv. Mr. Leishangthem Roshmani Kh., Adv. Ms. Naibam Babina, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Devadatt Kamat, Addl. Adv. Gen. Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv. Mrs. Priya Aristotle, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv. Mr. Ashish Yadav, Adv. Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv. Mr. Saikrisha Rajagopala, Adv. Mr. Julien George, Adv. Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv. Ms. Arundhati Gopal, Adv. Ms. Vaneesha Jain, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Wadhwa, Adv. Mr. Atul Shankar Vinod, Adv. Mr. M.P. Vinod, Adv. Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv. Mr. Ratan Kumar Chaudhuri, Adv. Mr. Sriram P., Adv. Ms. Khushbu Jain, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Shankar M.S., Adv. Ms. Athira G. Nair, Adv.

Mr. P.V. Surendranath, Sr. Adv. Ms. Reimitha R. Chandran, Adv.

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

Mr. Shyam Divan, learned senior counsel continued his arguments.

Matter be listed on Tuesday, the 30th January 2018 for further hearing.

(Subhash Chander) (H.S. Parasher) A.R.-cum-P.S. Assistant Registrar