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)

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)
W.P.(C) No.797/2016 (PIL-W)
W.P.(C) No.342/2017 (PIL-W)
W.P.(C) No.372/2017 (X)
W.P.(C) No.841/2015 (X)
W.P.(C) No.1058/2017 (PIL-W)
W.P.(C) No.966/2017 (PIL-W)
W.P.(C) No.1014/2017 (PIL-W)
W.P.(C) No.1002/2017 (PIL-W)
W.P.(C) No.1056/2017 (X)
S.L.P.(Crl) No.2524/2014 (II-A)
T.C.(C) No.151/2013 (XVI -A)
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<br>In W.P.(C) No.1014/2017

Date : 13-02-2018 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 Petitioner(s) Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Adv Mr. Chandra Shekhar Suman, Adv. Mr. R.K. Rajwanshi, Adv. Ms. Rita Gupta, Adv. Ms. Deepshikha Bharati, Adv. Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pratap Venugopal, Adv. Anuj Sarma, Adv. Udayaditya Banerjee, Adv. Ms. Prasanna S., Adv. Ms. Samiksha Gadiyal, Adv. Ms. Kritika Bharadwaj, Adv. Ms. Kanikat Kalaiyarasan, Adv. M/s. K J John And Co, AOR Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Ms. Vidyottma, Adv. Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Talha Rahman, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Saini, Adv. Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Koshy John, Adv. Md. Nizam Pasha, Adv. Ms. Anusha Nagarajan, Adv. Mr. Adit Pujari, Adv. Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR

Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Adv. Ms. Samten Doma, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv. Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv. Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. T. V. S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR Petitioner-in-person Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR Mr. Amit Meharia, Adv. Ms. Tannishtha Singh, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv. Ms. Ayushi gupta, Adv. M/s. Meharia & Company Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Ms. Cheryl D'souza, Adv. Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Sr. 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. Ms. Wimbie V.T. Sangma, Adv. Ms. Chitrangada Rashtravarde, Adv. Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR For Respondent(s) Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR Ms. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv. Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv. Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. Fahad Khan, Adv. Ms. Bhavita Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv. Ms. Aarti Sharma, Adv.

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Ms. Mishi Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Vaishali Verma, Adv. M/s. Lawyer S Knit & Co. M/s. Meharia & Company Mr. Sajan Poovayya, Sr. Adv. Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Pratibhanu Kharola, Adv. Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Saransh Jain, Adv. Mr. Madhavam Sharma, Adv. Mr. Meka Venkata Rama Krishna, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR 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 Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR Mohd. Waquas, Adv. Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv. Ms. Savita Singh, AOR Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR Ms. Meenakshi Chatterjee, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv. Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv.

Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv. Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Ms. Deepa Kulkarni, Adv. Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. S. Bhawani, Adv. Ms. Garima Bose Dey, Adv. 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. S. Manuraj, 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 Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. S. Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Ms. Simran Jeet, Adv. M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co. Mr. J.S. Attri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR

Mr. Chandra Nand Jha, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Adv. M/s. Corporate Law Group Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR 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. Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Dr. (Mrs. ) Vipin Gupta, AOR Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Koshy John, Adv. Md. Nizam Pasha, Adv. Ms. Anusha Nagarajan, Adv. Mr. Suhaan Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Adit Pujari, Adv. Mr. Raja Chatterjee, Adv. Mr. Piyush Sachdev, Adv. Ms. Runa Bhuyan, Adv. Mr. Adeel Ahmed, Adv. Ms. Shikha Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Adv. Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Ms. Shikha Aggarwal, Adv. Intervenor-in-person, AOR Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Applicant-in-person, AOR

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Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv. Mr. Namit Saxena, Adv. Mr. Devanshu Sajlan, Adv. Mr. Aditya P. Arora, Adv. Mr. Digant Kallol Dev, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR Mr. Wills Mathews, Adv. Mr. Giensh P., Adv. Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR M/s. Khaitan & Co. Mr. Harsh Kaushik, AOR Mr. K. R. Sasiprabhu, AOR Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR 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. Mr. Leishangthem Roshmani Kh., Adv. Mr. Saikrishna Rajgopal, Adv. Mr. Julien George, Adv. Ms. Arundhati Gopal, Adv. Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Adv. Mr. P.R. Kovilan, Adv. Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, Adv. Mr. P.V. Surendranath, Sr. Adv. Ms. Lekha Sudhakrana, Adv. Ms. Resmitha R. Chandran, Adv. Mr. Ratan Kr. Choudhuri, Adv. Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv.

Mr. Edward Belho, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sejma, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv. Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv. Ms. Shivani Khandekar, Adv. Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv. Mr. Prasanna S., Adv. Ms. Stuti Vatsa, Adv. Mr. Kumar Shivam, Adv. Ms. Srinidhi Rao, Adv. Mr. Priyam Liz Cherian, Adv. Ms. Nehmat Kaur, Adv. Dr. Anindita Pujari, Adv. Ms. Kavita Bhardawaj, Adv. Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv. Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Mrs. G. Indira, Adv. Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv. Ms. Shardha Deshmukha, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Ms. R. Bala Subramaniyam, Adv. Mr. Zohib Hussain, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Wadhawa, Adv. Mr. Atul Shankar Vinod, Adv. Mr. Dileep Pillai, Adv. Mr. Bharghav Thali, Adv. Mr. M.P. Vinod, Adv. Mr. K.V. Vijayakumar, Adv. Ms. Maitreyee Mishra, Adv. Mr. Karan Bharihke, Adv. Mr. Devadatt Kamat, Adv. Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv. Mrs. Priya Aristotle, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv. Mr. Ashish Yadadv, Adv. Mr. Javedur Rehman, Adv. Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv.

O R D E R

Mr. Kapil Sibal, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner in Writ Petition (C) No.841 of 2017, concluded his arguments. Thereafter, Mr. Gopal Subramanium, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioners in Writ Petition (C) Nos.37 of 2015 and 829 of 2013 , commenced his argument.

Let the matter be listed for further hearing on 15th February, 2018.

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