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

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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 ] 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 and IA No.24406/2018-INTERVENTION APPLICATION)

WITH

[ITEM NO.501.1 - T.C.(C) No.151/2013 (XVI -A)]; [ITEM NO.501.2 - T.C.(C) No.152/2013 (XVI -A)]; [ITEM NO.501.3 - W.P.(C) No.833/2013 (PIL-W)]; [ITEM NO.501.4 - W.P.(C) No.829/2013 (PIL-W)]; [ITEM NO.501.5 - T.P.(C) No.1797/2013 (XVI -A)]; [ITEM NO.501.6 - W.P.(C) No.932/2013 (PIL-W)]; [ITEM NO.501.7 - T.P.(C) No.1796/2013 (XVI -A)]; [ITEM NO.501.8 - CONMT.PET.(C) No.144/2014 In W.P.(C) No.494/2012 (PIL-W)]; [ITEM NO.501.9 - T.P.(C) No.313/2014 (XVI -A)]; [ITEM NO.501.10 - T.P.(C) No.312/2014 (XVI -A)]; [ITEM NO.501.11 - SLP(Crl) No.2524/2014 (II-A)]; [ITEM NO.501.12 - W.P.(C) No.37/2015 (PIL-W)]; [ITEM NO.501.13 - W.P.(C) No.220/2015 (PIL-W)]; [ITEM NO.501.14 - CONMT.PET.(C) No.674/2015 In W.P.(C) No.829/2013 (PIL-W)]; [ITEM NO.501.15 - T.P.(C) No.921/2015 (XVI -A)]; [ITEM NO.501.16 - CONMT.PET.(C) No.470/2015 In W.P.(C) No.494/2012 (PIL-W)]; [ITEM NO.501.17 - 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 ADDTIONAL GROUNDS))]; [ITEM NO.501.18 - CONMT.PET.(C) No.444/2016 In W.P.(C) No.494/2012 (PIL-W)]; [ITEM NO.501.19 - CONMT.PET.(C) No.608/2016 In W.P.(C) No.494/2012 (PIL-W)]; [ITEM NO.501.20 - 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)]; [ITEM NO.501.21 - CONMT.PET.(C) No.844/2017 In W.P.(C) No.494/2012 (PIL-W)]; Digitally signed by SUBHASH CHANDER Date: 2018.02.24 10:49:26 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

[ITEM NO.501.22 - 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)]; [ITEM NO.501.23 - W.P.(C) No.372/2017 (X)]; [ITEM NO.501.24 - W.P.(C) No.841/2017 (X) (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.119235/2017-AMENDMENT OF THE PETITION)]; [ITEM NO.501.25 - W.P.(C) No.1058/2017 (PIL-W)]; [ITEM NO.501.26 - W.P.(C) No.966/2017 (PIL-W) (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.102155/2017-GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF)]; [ITEM NO.501.27 - 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)]; [ITEM NO.501.28 - W.P.(C) No.1002/2017 (PIL-W)]; [ITEM NO.501.29 - W.P.(C) No.1056/2017 (X) (IA No.6196/2018-PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS)]; [ITEM NO.501.30 - CONMT.PET.(C) No.34/2018 in W.P.(C) No.1014/2017 (PIL-W) (FOR ADMISSION)]. Date : 22-02-2018 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. Gopal Subramaniam, Sr.Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, Adv. [AOR] Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv. Mr. Anirben Sen, Adv. Mr. Gopal Thiruman, Adv. Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Jayarvardhan Singh, Adv. Ms. Wimbie V.T. Sangma, Adv. Ms. Vaidruti Mishra, Adv. WP(C)Nos.37/15, Mr. Gopal Subramaniam, Sr. Adv. 829/13, 797/16 & Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv. 1058/17 Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Saini, Adv. Ms. Talha Rahman, Adv. Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, Adv. [AOR] Mr. Prateek Chadha, Adv.

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	Mr. Koshy John, Adv.<br>Mr. Md. Nizam Pasha, Adv.<br>Ms. Anusha Nagarajan, Adv.<br>Mr. Adit Pujari, Adv.<br>Mrs. Pragya Baghel, Adv. [AOR]<br>Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Adv.<br>Ms. Samten Doma, Adv.
	Mr. Raja Chatterjee, Adv.<br>Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, Adv. [AOR]<br>Mr. Adeel Ahmed, Adv.<br>Mr. Runa Bhuyan, Adv.<br>Mr. Piyush Sachdev, Adv.
WP(C)No.494/12	Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, Adv. [AOR]<br>Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajendra Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. R.K. Rajwanshi, Adv.<br>Mr. Chandra Shekhar Suman, Adv.<br>Mrs. Rita Gupta, Adv.<br>Ms. Deepshikha Bharati, Adv.<br>Ms. Harsha, Adv.
	Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Rahul Narayan, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Shadan Farasat, Adv. [AOR]
	M/s. K.J. John And Co., Advs. [AOR]
	Mr. Amit Meharia, Adv.<br>Ms. Tannishtha Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Ayushi Gupta, Adv.<br>Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv.<br>for
	M/s.<br>Meharia & Company, Advs. [AOR]<br>Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Abhishek Atrey, Adv. [AOR]<br>Ms. Vidyottmay, Adv.<br>Mr. Ravinder Lokhande, Adv.<br>Mr. Harshit Kaushik, Adv.<br>Mr. Gautam Talukdar, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr.<br>Vipin Nair, Adv. [AOR]

	Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Anando Mukherjee, Adv. [AOR]
WP(C)No.1014/17	Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Nappiani, Adv.<br>Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv.<br>Mr. Prasanna S., Adv.<br>Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv.<br>Mr. Deepayan Mandal, Adv. [AOR]
	Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv.<br>Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv.<br>Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv.<br>Mr. T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Sameer H. Shahani-in-person
	Dr. Anindita Pujari, Adv.<br>Ms. Kavita Bhardwaj, Adv.
For Respondent(s)	Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG<br>Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG<br>Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. [AOR]<br>Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv.<br>Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.<br>Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv.<br>Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv.<br>Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv.<br>Ms. Bhavita Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Fahad Khan, Adv.<br>Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv.<br>Ms. Shardha Deshmukha, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.<br>Mr. R. Balasubramaniyam, Adv.<br>Ms. Aarti Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv.<br>Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv.<br>Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv.<br>Ms. Hemantika Wahi, Adv. [AOR]
Himachal Pradesh	Mr. J.S. Attri, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, Adv. [AOR]<br>Mr. Chandra Nand Jha, Adv.

Puducherry	Mr. V. G. Pragasam, Adv. [AOR]<br>Mr. S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv.<br>Mr. S. Manuraj, Adv.
	Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Mishra Saurabh, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Manish Vashishtha, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Garvesh Kabra, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Anip Sachthey, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv. [AOR]
	Ms. Savita Singh, Adv. [AOR]
TRAI	Mr. Sanjay Kapur, Adv. [AOR]<br>Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv.<br>Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv.<br>Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv.
Meghalaya	Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, Adv. [AOR]<br>Mr. Daniel Stone Lyngdoh, Adv.
	Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv.<br>Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv.<br>Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar,Adv.[AOR]
	Mr. Jayant Mohan, Adv. [AOR]
	Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Adv.<br>Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv.<br>Dr.<br>(Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, Adv. [AOR]
	M/s. Corporate Law Group, Advs. [AOR]
	Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, Adv. [AOR]
Haryana	Mr. Anil Grover, AAG<br>Ms. Noopur Singhal, Adv.<br>Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, Adv. [AOR]

Jharkhand	Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, Adv. [AOR]<br>Mohd. Waquas, Adv.<br>Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv.
J&K	Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, Adv. [AOR]<br>Ms. Fauzia Shakil, Adv.<br>Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan, Adv.
	Ms. Anitha Shenoy, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, Adv. [AOR]
Mizoram	Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Adv.<br>Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv.<br>Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, Adv. [AOR]
Sikkim	Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv.<br>Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv.<br>Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv.<br>Ms. Simran Jeet, Adv.<br>for<br>M/s. Arputham Aruna and Co., Advs. [AOR]
Uttarakhand	Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, Adv. [AOR]<br>Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv.
West Bengal	Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, Adv. [AOR]<br>Mr. Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Adv.<br>Ms. Shikha Aggrawal, Adv.
	Mr. Gopal Singh, Adv. [AOR]<br>Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv.
	Mr. Milind Kumar, Adv. [AOR]
	Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, Adv. [AOR]
	Ms. Rashmi Singhania, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Dinkar Kalra, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Mohit D. Ram, Adv. [AOR]
R.B.I.	Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv.<br>Mr. H.S. Parihar, Adv. [AOR]
Telangana	Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Adv. [AOR]

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	Mr. Rabin Majumder, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Jogy Scaria, Adv. [AOR]
	M/s. Lawyer S Knit & Co., Advs. [AOR]
	Mr. M.P. Vinod, Adv. [AOR]
	Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv.<br>Ms. Nina Gupta, Adv.<br>Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv.<br>Mr. Mudit Sharma, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Harsh Kaushik, Adv. [AOR]
	M/s.<br>Khaitan & Co., Advs. [AOR]
	Mr. K.R. Sasiprabhu, Advs. [AOR]
	Mrs. Pragya Baghel, Adv. [AOR]
IOC	Mr. Amit Meharia, Adv.<br>Ms. Tannishtha Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Ayushi Gupta, Adv.<br>Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv.<br>for
	M/s.<br>Meharia & Company, Advs. [AOR]
Tamil nadu	Mr. K.V. Vijayakumar, Adv. [AOR]<br>Ms. Maitreyee Mishra, Adv.
	Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, Adv. [AOR]<br>Ms. Annu K. Joy, Adv.<br>Mr. Manav Vohra, Adv.<br>Mr. Krishna Dev J., Adv.<br>Mr. Amith Krishnan, Adv.<br>Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.A., Adv.<br>Ms. Svadha Shankar, Adv.<br>Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv.
Karnataka	Mr. Devadatt kamat, Addl. Adv. Gen.<br>Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv. [AOR]<br>Mrs. Priya Aristotle, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashish Yadav, Adv.<br>Mr. Javedur Rehman, Adv.<br>Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv.<br>Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv.
Jharkhand	Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv.<br>Mr. Ratan Kr. Choudhuri, Adv.

A&N Admn.	Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv.<br>Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv.<br>Mrs. G. Indira, Adv.
Nagaland	Mr. Edward Belho, AAG<br>Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv.
Manipur	Mr. Leisangthem Roshmani Kh., Adv.<br>Mr. Maibam Babina, Adv.
	Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv. [AOR]
For Applicant (s)	Mr. Sajan Poovayya, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv.<br>Mr. Pratibhanu Kharola, Adv.<br>Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Saransh Jain, Adv.<br>Mr. Madhavban Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Meka Venkata Rama Krishna, Adv.<br>for<br>Mr. E.C. Agrawala, Adv.
	Mr. P.V. Surendra Nath, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Resmitha R. Chandran, Adv. [AOR]<br>Ms. Lekha Sudhakaran, Adv.
	Mr. S. Mukherjee, Adv.<br>Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, Adv. [AOR]<br>Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv.<br>Mr. Sandeep kr. Dwivedi, Adv.<br>Mr. Pradeep Kr. Dwivedi, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashish Kumar Mishra, Adv.
	Mr. Ashok Mathur, Adv. [AOR]
	Ms. Pallavi Pratap, Adv. [AOR]
	Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv.<br>Ms. Shivani Khandekar, Adv.
	Mr. Sriram P., Adv.<br>Ms. Khushbu Jain, Adv.<br>Mr. Vishnu Shanker M.S., Adv.<br>Ms. Athira G. Nair, Adv.
	Mr. Saigopal Rajagopal, Adv.<br>Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv.<br>Mr. Julien George, Adv.<br>Mr. Arundhati Gopal, Adv.

Intervenor-in-person Applicant-in-person

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

Mr. Gopal Subramaniam, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner in W.P.(C)Nos.37/2015; 829/2013; 797/2016 and 1058/2017 concluded his arguments.

Mr. Arvind Datar, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner in W.P.(C)No.1014/2017 shall commence his arguments on 06th March 2018.

(Subhash Chander) (H.S. Parasher) AR-cum-PS Assistant Registrar