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) & ANR. Petitioners

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondents

(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

T.C.(C) No. 151/2013 (XVI-A) T.C.(C) No. 152/2013 (XVI-A) W.P.(C) No. 833/2013 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 829/2013 (PIL-W) (and IA No.22171/2018-INTERVENTION APPLICATION and IA No.22174/2018-PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON) T.P.(C) No. 1797/2013 (XVI-A) W.P.(C) No. 932/2013 (PIL-W) T.P.(C) No. 1796/2013 (XVI-A) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 144/2014 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (PIL-W) T.P.(C) No. 313/2014 (XVI-A) T.P.(C) No. 312/2014 (XVI-A) SLP(Crl.) No. 2524/2014 (II-A) W.P.(C) No. 37/2015 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 220/2015 (PIL-W) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 674/2015 In W.P.(C) No. 829/2013 (PIL-W) T.P.(C) No. 921/2015 (XVI-A) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 470/2015 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (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 ADDTIONAL GROUNDS)) 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) 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) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 844/2017 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 342/2017 (PIL-W) (FOR INTERIM PRAYERS FOR GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF ON IA 1/2017 and Digitally signed by DEEPAK GUGLANI Date: 2018.04.12 16:54:12 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

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. 841/2017 (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) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 34/2018 in W.P.(C) No. 1014/2017 (PIL-W) (FOR ADMISSION)

Date : 12-04-2018 This matter 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 Petitioners

Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Dr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Ms. Vidyottma, Adv. Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv. Mr. Namit Saxena, Adv. Mr. Devanshu Sajlan, Adv. Mr. Aditya P. Arora, Adv. Mr. Digant K. Deo, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR Mr. Muhammad Ali Khan, Adv. Mr. Vikramaditya Singh, Adv. Mr. R.V. Prabhat, Adv. Mr. Gaurv Gupta, Adv. Mr. Zafar Khurshid, Adv. Ms. Prianka Rao Khan, Adv. Mr. Omar Hoda, Adv. Mr. Jaspal Singh, Adv. Mr. Namra Nasir, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Jebraj, Adv. Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR

Dr. Anindita Pujari, Adv. Mr. Kavita Bhardawaj, Adv. Mr. P.R. Kovilan, Adv. Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR Mr. V. Vasudevan, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv. Ms. Chitrangada Rashtervada, Adv. Mr. Anirben Sen, Adv. Mr. Gopal Thiruman, Adv. Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Vishwajeet Singh, Adv. Ms. Vaidruti Mishra, Adv. Mr. K.V. Viswanathan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv. Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv. Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR Mr. K.V. Viswanathan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv. Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv. Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR Ms. Ashta Shrama, Adv. Mr. Harsh Hiroo Gursahani, Adv. M/s. PLR Chambers And Co., AOR Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR 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. Ms. Samten Doma, Adv. Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Kumar Singh, Adv. Mrs. Rita Gupta, Adv. Ms. Deepshikha Bharati, Adv. Ms. Harsha, Adv.

Applicants

Mr. Kumar Anurag Singh, Adv. Mr. Prasanna S., Adv. Ms. Stuti Vatsa, Adv. Mr. Priyam Lizmary Cherian, Adv. M/s. K.J. John And Co, AOR M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR Petitioner-in-person For Respondents/ Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Ms. Shradha Deshmukh, Adv. Ms. Charanya L., Adv. Mr. Rohit Bhat, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv. Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv. Ms. Palash Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. Fahad Khan, Adv. Mr. Vivek Gurnani, Adv. Ms. Bhavita Kumar, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Walesha, Adv. Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv. Mr. Harish V. Shankar, Adv. Ms. Rukmani Bobde, Adv. Mr. M.K. Maroria, Adv. Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. Ms. Aarti Sharma, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Ms. Sanskriti Pathak, Adv. Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv. Ms. Apoorva Garg, Adv. Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv.

Mr. H.S. Parihar, AOR

Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Adv. Mr. K.V. Vijayakumar, AOR Ms. Maitreyee Mishra, Adv. Mr. K.V. Ram Kumar, Adv. Mr. Edward Belho, AAG, Nagaland Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv. Mr. Anil Grover, AAG, Haryana Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Daniel Stone Lyngdoh, Adv. Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv. Mr. Ratan Kr. Choudhuri, Adv. Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv. Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv. Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv. Mr. S. Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Jafar Imam Naqvi, Adv. Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Mr. T.G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv. Ms. Nina Gupta, Adv. Ms. Shireen Shukla, Adv. Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Mohd. Waquar, Adv. Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Wills Mathews, Adv. Mr. Shaji Sebastian, Adv. Mr. Ginesh P., Adv. Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR

Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. R. Sudhakar, Adv. Ms. Saumya Mehrotra, Adv. Ms. Amrita Sarkar, Adv. Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, AOR Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv. Mr. Sayooj Mohan Das, Adv. Mr. Ritu Raj Biswas, Adv. Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv. Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Mrs. G. Indira, AOR Mr. Devadatt Kamat, AAG Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv. Mrs. Priya Aristotle, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv. Mr. Javedur Rehman, Adv. Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv. Ms. Bina Madhavan, Adv. Ms. Swati Bhardwaj, Adv. Ms. Ramandeep Kaur, Adv. Ms. Shreyasi Kunwar, Adv. M/s. Lawyer's Knit & Co, AOR Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv. Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv. Mr. Harsh Hiroo Gursahani, Adv. for M/s. PLR Chambers And Co., AOR Mr. Leishangthem Roshmani Kh., Adv. Ms. Maibam Babina, Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, Adv. Ms. Anu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Dr. (Mrs.) Laxmi Shastri, Adv. Mr. Ajay Bansal, Adv.

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Ms. Veena Bansal, Adv. Mr. Kuldip Singh, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Yadava, Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR Mr. Dinkar Kalra, AOR Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR M/s. Corporate Law Group, AOR Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR Applicant-in-person, AOR Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR Intervenor-in-person, AOR Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR Mr. V.G. Pragasam, AOR Mr. Manish Vashishtha, AOR Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR M/s. Khaitan & Co., AOR Mr. Harsh Kaushik, AOR Mr. K.R. Sasiprabhu, AOR Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR Mr. M.P. Vinod, AOR Mr. P.V. Surendra Nath, Sr. Adv. Ms. Resmitha R. Chandran, Adv. Ms. Lekha Sudhakaran, Adv. Mr. Sai Krishna Rajgopal, Adv. Mr. Julien George, Adv. Ms. Arundhatik Gopal, Adv. Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv. Ms. Vaneesha Jain, Adv.

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

In appln. for

Impleadment Mr. Sriram P., Adv. Mr. P.T. Sheejish, Adv. Ms. Khushbu Jain, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Shankar M.S., Adv. Ms. Athira G. Nair, Adv.

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

Mr. Tushar Mehta, learned ASG for the Union of India concluded his arguments. Thereafter, Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, learned senior counsel appearing for the State of Gujarat and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) commenced his arguments, which remained inconclusive.

Put up for further hearing on 17.4.2018.

(Deepak Guglani) (H.S. Parasher) Court Master Assistant Registrar