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 In W.P.(C) No.1014/2017 Digitally signed by CHETAN KUMAR Date: 2018.03.20 17:04:18 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

Date : 20-03-2018 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. Rajendra Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Chandra Shekhar Suman, Adv. Mrs. Rita Gupta, Adv. Ms. Deepshikha Bharati, Adv. Ms. Harsha, Adv. Mr. P.R. Kovilan, Adv. Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv. Ms. Nappinia N.S., Adv. Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR Ms. Annanya Ghosh, Adv. Ms. Bhabna Das, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Goel, Adv. Ms. Madhumanti Ghosh, Adv. Mr. K.V. Vishwanathan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv. Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR Mr. Pratap Venugopal, Adv. Ms. Surekha Raman, Adv. Mr. Anuj Sarma, Adv. Mr. Debarshi Bhuyan, Adv. Mr. Aman Shukla, Adv. Ms. Kanika Kalaiyarasan, Adv. M/s. K J John And Co, AOR Mr. Amit Mohan Meharia, Adv. Mrs. Tannishtha Singh, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv. M/s. Meharia & Company Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR

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Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. C.U. Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Ms. Vidyottma, Adv. Mr. Ravinder Lokhande, Adv. Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR 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. V.K. Biju, Adv. Mr. Prithu Garg, Adv. Mr. Govind Manoharan, Adv. Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Adv. Mr. Harsh Gusahani, Adv. Mr. Vishal Prasad, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv. Pallavi Saharma, Adv. M/s. PLR Chambers and Co. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr. K.V. Vishwanathan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv. Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv. Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR Petitioner-in-person For Respondent(s) Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Ms. Shradha Deshmukh, Adv. Ms. Charanya L., Adv. Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv.

Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv. Mr. Piyush goyal, Adv. Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Fahad Khan, Adv. Mr. Vivek Gurnani, Adv Mr. H.V. Shankar, Adv. Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Ms. Rukhmini Bobde, Adv. Mr. M.K. Maroria, Adv. Ms. Bina Madhavan, Adv. Ms. Swati Bhardwaj, Adv. Ms. Ramandeep Kaur, Adv. Ms. Shreyasi Kunwar, Adv. K. Krishna Bushan Chowdary, Adv. Mr. Prasanth S., 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. Jaideep Singh, Adv. Mr. Anirben Sen, Adv. Mr. T. Gopal, Adv. Mr. Amit Verma, Adv. Ms Tanuja Patra, Adv. Ms. Ritu Apurva, Adv. Mr. Vishwajeet Singh, Adv. Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR Mr. Dinkar Kalra, AOR Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv. Ms. Vimla Sinha, Adv.

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Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kuldip 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. Ms. Savita Singh, AOR Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv. Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv. Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR 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 Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Purnima Krishna, Adv. Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR Mr. Manish Vashishtha, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR

Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Ms. Simran Jeet, Adv. M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR M/s. Corporate Law Group Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. R. Sudhinder, Adv. Ms. Soumya Mehrotra, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv. Ms. Mamta Singh, 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. Soumitra G. Chaudhur, Adv. Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Intervenor-in-person, AOR Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Applicant-in-person, AOR Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv.

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Mr. Namit Saxena, Adv. Mr. Devanenu Sajlam, Adv. Mr. Aditya P. Arora, Adv. Mr. Diganot Kallor Deo, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR Mr. wills Mathews, 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. 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. Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv. Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv. Ms. Shardha Deshmukha, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. R. Bala Subramaniyam, Adv. Mr. Zohib Hussain, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajan Shonker, Adv. Ms. Annu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Manav Vohra, Adv. Mr. Krishna Dev J., Adv. Mr. Amith Krishnan, Adv. Mohd. Sadique T.A., Adv. Ms. Svadha Shawkar, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Anil Grover, Adv. Mr. Ajay Bansal, Adv. Mr. Kuldip Singh, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, Adv. Mrs. Veena Bansal, Adv.

Mr. Gaurav Yadava, Adv. Ms. Noopur Singhal, Adv. Mr. Edward Belho, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv. In impleadment appl. Ms. Jaya Kothari, Adv. IA 141212/17 Dr. Anindita Pujari, Adv. Ms. Kavita Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, Adv. Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv. Mr. Ratan Kr. Choudhuri, Adv. Mr. Leishangthan Roshmani Kh., Adv. Ms. Maibam Babina, Adv. Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv. Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Mrs. G. Indira, Adv. Mr. P.V. Surendra Nath, Sr. Adv. Ms. Resmitha R. Chandran, Adv. Ms. Lekha Sudhakaran, Adv. Mr. K.V. Vijaya Kumar, Adv. Ms. Maitrayee Mishra, Adv. Mr. Mutuvel Palani, Adv. Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Mr. T.G.N. Nair, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, asg 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. Jawher Raja, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rahat Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv. Ms. Shivani Khandekar, Adv. Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde, Sr. Adv. Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv. Ms. Tehmina Arora, Adv. Ms. Loreign Ovung, Adv. Mr. Sanbha Giri Rumnong, Adv. Mr. B. Balakrishnan, Adv. Mr. Siju Thomas, Adv. Mr. Pranjal Kishore, Adv.

Ms. N.S. Nappinai, Adv.

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

Ms. Meenakshi Arora, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner in T.C.(C) No.152 of 2013, Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde, Mr. Sajan Poovayya, Mr. C.U. Singh, learned senior counsel, Ms. Jaya Kothari and Ms. N.S. Nappinai, learned counsel for the applicants concluded their arguments.

List the matter tomorrow (21.03.2018) for commencement of argument of Mr. K.K. Venugopal, learned Attorney General for India.

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