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)

(With appln.(s) for intervention and permission to appear and argue in person)

• 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)

(With appln.(s) for direction and permission to amend writ petition and raising additional grounds)

W.P.(C) No.797/2016 (PIL-W)

(With appln.(s) for permission to file Annexures, directions and stay)

W.P.(C) No.342/2017 (PIL-W)

(With appln.(s) for clarification/direction, impleading party, intervention and grant of interim relief)

• W.P.(C) No.372/2017 (X)
• W.P.(C) No.841/2015 (X)
• (With appln.(s) for amendment of the petition)
• W.P.(C) No.1058/2017 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No.966/2017 (PIL-W)

(With appln.(s) for grant of interim relief)

W.P.(C) No.1014/2017 (PIL-W)

(With appln.(s) for grant of interim relief, impleading party and interim relief)

• W.P.(C) No.1002/2017 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No.1056/2017 (X)

(With appln.(s) for permission to file additional documents)

• S.L.P.(Crl) No.2524/2014 (II-A) Signature Not Verified
• T.C.(C) No.151/2013 (XVI -A) Digitally signed by CHETAN KUMAR
• T.C.(C) No.152/2013 (XVI -A) Date: 2018.04.25 17:08:09 IST Reason:
• 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

Date : 25-04-2018 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.
	Mrs. Rita Gupta, Adv.
		Ms. Harsha, Adv.

Mr. P.R. Kovilan, Adv. Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR Mr. Aswathi H.K., Adv.

Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR

Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv. Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv.

Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR

M/s. K J John And Co, AOR

• M/s. Meharia & Company
• Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR
• 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.
  • Mr. Vishwajeet Singh, Adv.

Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Ms. Vidyottma, Adv. Mr. Muhammad Ali Khan, Adv. Mr. R.V. Prabhat, Adv. Mr. Vikramaditya Singh, Adv. Mr. Abishek JebraJ, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Gupta, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv. Mr. Jaspal Singh, Adv. Mr. Omar Hoda, Adv. Ms. Prianka Rao, Adv. Ms. Namrah Nasir, Adv. Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR M/s. PLR Chambers and Co. Mr. Prasanna, Adv. Ms. Stuti Vatsa, Adv. Mr. Kumar Anurag Singh, Adv. Mr. Kumar Shivam, Adv. Ms. Priyam Lizmarycherian, Adv. Mr. Varun Mathew, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Ms. Pragya Baghel, AOR Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR Mr. T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR Petitioner-in-person For Respondent(s) Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Mr. Zoheb Hussain, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Ms. Charanya L., Adv. Mr. Rohit Bhat, Adv.

Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv.

Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv. Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv. Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv. Ms. Bhavita Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vivek Gurnani, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Walesha, Adv. Ms. Gorpirya Bhatia, Adv. Ms. Sanchi Malhotra, Adv. Mr. Harish V. Shankar, Adv. Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv. Ms. Rukhmini Bobde, Adv. Ms. Shardha Desmukh, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. R. Bala Subramaniyam, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. Mr. M.K. Maroria, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv. M/s. Lawyer S Knit & Co. M/s. Meharia & Company Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, 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, AOR Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv. Mr. H. S. Parihar, AOR Mr. Tusar Bhusan, Adv. Mr. Ketan Paul, Adv. 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. Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Adv. Ms. Savita Singh, AOR Mr. Shrutunjay Bhardwaj, Adv. Ms. Shanu Agrawal, Adv. Ms. Veera Mahuli, Adv. Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv. Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv. Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hussain, Adv. Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. K.V. Kharlyngdoh, Adv. Mr. Daniel Stone Lyngdoh, 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. 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. 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. Saumya Mehrotra, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR Dr. (Mrs. ) Vipin Gupta, AOR Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Intervenor-in-person, AOR Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Applicant-in-person, AOR Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR

Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR

Mr. Wills Mathews, Adv. Shaji Sebastian, Adv. Anu George Canjanathoppil, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR M/s. Khaitan & Co. Mr. Harsh Kaushik, AOR Mr. K. R. Sasiprabhu, AOR Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv. Ms. Nina Gupta, Adv. Ms. Shireen Shukla, Adv. Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv. Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR Mr. K. Rajeev, AOR Mr. Devadatt Kamat, Adv. Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv. Mrs. Priya Aristotle, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv. Mr. Javedur Rehman, Adv. Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv. Mr. Edward Belho, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv. Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv. Mr. Leishangthan Roshmani Kh., Adv. Ms. Maibam Babina, 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. Ms. Kiran Karan Chawla, Adv. Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv.

Mr. T.G.N. Nair, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rahul Matthan, Adv. Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, AOR Mr. Thomas J. Vallianeth, Adv. Ms. Shivani Khandekar, Adv. Mr. Samar Kacchwaha, Adv. Mr. B. Vivekananda, Adv. Mr. Divyanshu Srivatsava, Adv. Mr. Akash Lamba, Adv. Mr. Varun Mathur, Adv. Ms. Chanan Pawani, Adv. Mr. Devanshu Satlan, Adv. Ms. Aparna Bhat, AOR Mr. Shovodeep Roy, Adv. Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv. Mr. Sayooj Mohandas M., Adv. Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv. Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonkar, Adv. Ms. Anu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Manav Vohra, Adv. Mr. Krishna Dev Jagarlamudi, Adv. Mr. Mohammed Saeque T.A., adV. Ms. Svadha Shankar, Adv. Mr. Amith Krishnan, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Sriram P., Adv. Ms. Khushbu Jain, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Shankar M.S., Adv. Ms. Athira G. Nair, Adv. Mr. Saikrishna Rajgopal, Adv. Mr. Julien George, Adv. Ms. Arundhati Gopal, Adv. Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv. Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Pranaya Kr. Mohapatra, Adv.

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

Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, learned senior counsel appearing for the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) concluded his argument. Mr. Tushar Mehta, learned Additional Solicitor General also replied some of the queries raised by the petitioners. Mr. Jayant Bhushan, learned senior counsel appearing for the Reserve Bank of India concluded his argument. Mr. Gopal Shankarnarayanan, learned counsel appearing for the respondent No.36 in W.P.(C) 494 of 2012 and the applicant in I.A. No.54311-54312 of 2018, has commenced his argument, which remained inconclusive.

Put up for further hearing tomorrow (26.04.2018).

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