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(s)(Civil) No(s).494/2012

JUSTICE K.S.PUTTASWAMY(RETD) & ANR. Petitioner(s) VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)

([FOR FURTHER HEARING] [TO BE TAKEN UP AS ITEM NO.501 ]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) WITH W.P.(C) No.833/2013 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.829/2013 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.932/2013 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.37/2015 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.220/2015 (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 additional grounds) W.P.(C) No.797/2016 (PIL-W) [For (permission to file Annexures) on IA 4/2016 for (directions) on IA 5/2017 for stay application on IA 6/2017) 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-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.841/2015 (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) S.L.P.(Crl) No.2524/2014 (II-A) T.C.(C) No.151/2013 (XVI -A) Digitally signed by SATISH KUMAR YADAV Date: 2018.02.07 16:37:51 TLT Reason: Signature Not Verified

T.C.(C) No.152/2013 (XVI -A) T.P.(C) No.1797/2013 (XVI -A) T.P.(C) No.1796/2013 (XVI -A) T.P.(C) No.313/2014 (XVI -A) T.P.(C) No.312/2014 (XVI -A) T.P.(C) No.921/2015 (XVI -A) CONMT.PET.(C) No.144/2014 In W.P.(C) No.494/2012 (PIL-W) CONMT.PET.(C) No.674/2015 In W.P.(C) No.829/2013 (PIL-W) CONMT.PET.(C) No.470/2015 In W.P.(C) No.494/2012 (PIL-W) 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) CONMT.PET.(C) No.844/2017 In W.P.(C) No.494/2012 (PIL-W) CONMT.PET.(C) No.34/2018 In W.P.(C) No.1014/2017 (FOR ADMISSION Contempt. Pet.(C)No.34/2018 is to be shown in W.P. (C)No.1014/2017)

Date : 07-02-2018 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.Kapil Sibal, Sr.Adv. (In WP(C)966/17) Mr. Koshy John, Adv. Mr.Md.Nizam Pasha, Adv. Ms.Anusha Nagarajan, Adv. Mr.Adit Pujari, Adv. Mrs.Pragya Baghel, AOR Ms.Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Adv. Mr.Samtan Doma, Adv.
• In WP(C) 841/2017 Mr.Kapil Sibal, Sr.Adv. Mr.Kalyan Bandhopadhya, Sr.Adv. Mr.Raja Chatterjee, Adv. Mr.Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, Adv. Mr.Piyush Sachdev, Adv. Mr.Adeel Ahmed, Adv. Mr.Runa Bhuyan, Adv.
  • Mr.Gopal Subramaniam, Sr.Adv. Mr.Pavan Bhushan, Adv. Ms.Jayavardhan Singh, Adv. Mr.Talha Rahman, Adv. Mr.Prateek, Adv. Mr.Atin, Adv. Mr.Hitesh, Adv. Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, Adv.[AOR]

Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pratap Venugopal, Adv. Mr. Anuj Sarma, Adv. Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Prasanna S., Adv. Ms. Samiksha Bodiyal, Adv. Ms. Kritika Bharadwaj, Adv. Ms. Niharika, Adv. Ms. Kanika Kalaiyarasan, Adv. for M/s. K J John And Co., Advs. [AOR] Mr.Shyam Diwan, Sr.Adv. Dr.Abhishek Atrey, Adv. Ms.Vidyottma, Adv. Mr.Ravinder Lokhande, Adv. Mr.Gopal Subramaniam, Sr.Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR Mr.Jaideep Singh, Adv. Ms. Vaidruti Mishra, Adv. Mr.Anirben Sen, Adv. Ms. Wimbie V.T. Sangama, Adv. Mr. Gopal Thiruman, Adv. Ms.Chitrangda R., Adv. Mr.Vishwajeet Singh, Adv. Gp. Capt. Karan Singh Bhati, Adv. Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Mr.Bhanu Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv. Mr. Namit Saxena, Adv. Mr. Devanshu Sailan, Adv. Mr. Aditya P. Arora, Adv. Mr.D.K.Deo, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Pratap, Adv. [AOR] Mrs. Nappiani, Adv. Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Prasanna S., Adv. Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr.Deepayan Mandal, Adv.

Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv. Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv. Mr. T. V. S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR Petitioner-in-person Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR Mr. Amit Mohan Meharia, Adv. Ms. Tannishta Singh, Adv. Ms. Ayushi Gupta, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv. For M/s. Meharia & Company, Advs. [AOR] Mr.Prashant Bhushan, Adv. Ms.Cheryl D'Souza, Adv. Mr.O.Kuttan, Adv. Mr.Suahaker, Adv. Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR Mr.P.R.Kovilan, Adv. Ms. Geetha Kovilan, Adv. Dr.Anindita Pujari, Adv. Mr.Kavita Bharwaj, Adv. Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, Adv. For Respondent(s)/ Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG Applicant(s) Mr.Tushar Mehta, ASG Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR Ms. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv. Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv. Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv. Mr.Fahad M.Khan, Adv. Ms.Bhavita Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv. Ms. Aarti Sharma, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr.Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR

Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Ms.Shodhika Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sajan Poovayya, Sr. Adv. Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Madhavam Sharma, Adv. Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Pratibhanu S. Kharola, Adv. For Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv. Mr. H. S. Parihar, AOR Mr. J.S. Attri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Chandra Nand Jha, Adv. Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Ms. Simran Jeet, Adv. Ms.Bina Madhavan, Adv. Mr.Mrityunjai Singh, Adv. Ms.Swati Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr.Piyush Dwivedi, Adv. Mr.Prateek Dhir, Adv. Ms.Ramandeep Kaur, Adv. Ms.Shreyasi Kunwar, Adv. Ms.Vaishali Verma, Adv. For M/s. Lawyer S Knit & Co., Advs. [AOR] Mr.Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Ms.Rohini Musa, Adv. Mr.R.N.Katneshwarkar, Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar, 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, Adv. Mr.Rituraj Biswas, Adv.

Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR

Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR

Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, Adv. Ms.Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Mohd. Waquas, Adv. Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv. Ms. Savita Singh, AOR Mr.Shrutunjay Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr.Veera Mahuli, Adv. Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR Ms. Meenakshi Chatterjee, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv. Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv. Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv. 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. 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, AAG Ms. Noopur Singhal, Adv. Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR

Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. [AOR]

Mr. S. Mukerjee, Adv. Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv. Mr.Ashish Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, Adv. Mr.Avnish M.Oza, Adv. Mr.Chirag Jain, Adv. Mr.A.Selvin Raja, Adv. Mr.Charudatta Mahindrakar, 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 Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, AOR Intervenor-in-person Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Applicant-in-person Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR Mr. Harsh Kaushik, AOR Mr. K. R. Sasiprabhu, AOR Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR Mr. Nishe Rajan Shonker, Adv. Mr. Manav Vohra, Adv. Mrs. Annu K. Joy, 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. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Edward Belho, 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.Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, Adv. Ms.Ashima Mandla, Adv. Mr.Gaurav Bhargava, Adv. Mr.Kuber Boddh, Adv. Ms.Priyanka Aggarwal, Adv. Mr.Ibad Mushtaq, Adv. Mr.Siddhant Sharma, Adv. Mr.A.F.Khan, Adv. Mr. Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Adv. Mr.Chanchal K.Ganguli, 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. Javedur Rehman, Adv. Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Wadhawa, Adv. Mr. Atul Shankar Vinod, Adv. Mr. Dileep Pillai, Adv. Mr.Bhargav Thali, Adv. Mr. M.P. Vinod, Adv. Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv. Mr. Ratan Kumar Choudhuri, Adv. Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, Adv. Mr. Yogesh Kanna, Adv. [AOR] M/s Khaitan & Co., Adv.

Mr.Varinder Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr.Sanjeev Kumar, Adv. Mr.Saikrishna Rajagopal, Adv. Ms.Julien George, Adv. Mr.Arjun Ranganathan, Adv. Ms.Arundhati Gopal, Adv. Ms.Vaneesha Jain, Adv. Mr.Nikhil Nayyar, Adv. Mr.Varinder K.Sharma, Adv. Ms.Mandakini Singh, Adv. Ms.Parul Sharma, Adv.

Syed Jafar Alam, Adv. Ms.Shivani Khandekar, Adv. Mr.Aman Shukla, Adv.

Ms.Radhika Chautervedi, Adv. Mr.Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr.S.K.Rajora, Adv.

Mr.Jawahar Raja, Adv. Mr.Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Ms.Rahat Sharma, Adv.

Mr.V.G.Pragasam, Adv. Mr.S.Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Mr.S.Manuraj, Adv.

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

Mr.Kapil Sibal, learned senior counsel for the petitioner in W.P.(C)No.841 of 2017 and W.P.(C)No.966 of 2017 continued his arguments, which remained inconclusive.

The matters be listed on 08.02.2018 for further hearing.

(Chetan Kumar ) (H.S.Parasher) Court Master Assistant Registrar