Common Cause vs. Union Of India

28ITEM NO.9 COURT NO.5 SECTION PIL(W) (Part-Heard) 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). 114/2014 COMMON CAUSE Petitioner(s) VERSUS UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s) (WITH APPLN. FOR INTERVENTION, DIRECTION AND MODIFICATION OF COURT'S ORDER DATED 16.05.2014 AND PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS AND EXTENSION OF TIME AND APPLN. FOR SEEKING WITHDRAWAL OF I.A.NOS. 92-93 AND OFFICE REPORT) WITH W.P.(C) No. 194/2014 (WITH APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS) WITH I.A.NOS. 3706-3707, 3737, 3740, 3745, 3755, 3756 IN W.P.(C) No. 202/1995 (WITH APPLN.(S) FOR FOR INTERVENTION AND DIRECTIONS AND MODIFICATION OF COURT'S ORDER DATED 13.01.2014 AND IMPLEADMENT AND OFFICE REPORT) Date : 27/04/2017 These petitions were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MADAN B. LOKUR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA Mr. A.D.N. Rao, Adv. (A.C.) Mr. Harish N. Salve, Sr.Adv.(A.C.) (NP) Ms. Aparajita Singh, Adv.(A.C.) (NP) Mr. Siddhartha Chowdhury, Adv. (A.C.) (NP) For Petitioner(s) Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, Adv. Mr. Sumant Bhushan, Adv. Ms. Neha Rathi, Adv. Mr. Nischal Kumar Neeraj, AOR Mr. Deependra Kr. Pathak, Adv. For Respondent(s) Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, Attorney General UOI Ms. Pinky Anand, ASG 1 Mr. A.K. Panda, Sr. Adv. Ms. V. Mohana, Sr. Adv. Ms. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Karan A. Seth, Adv. Mr. Balendu Shekhar, Adv. Ms. Meenakshi Grover, Adv. Ms. Gunwant Dara, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. Mr. G.S. Makker, AOR Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR Mr. D.L. Chidananda, Adv. Mr. Ravindra Bana, Adv. Mr. P.K. Mullick, Adv. Ms. Gargi Khanna, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Adv. Mr. Atulesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Hemant Arya, Adv. I.A. 70, 73 & 48 Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manas Ranjan Mohapatra, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ramesh Singh, Adv. Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, Adv. Mr. Nishit Agrawal, Adv. Mr. T.A. Rehman, Adv. Mr. Shrey Kapoor, Adv. for M/s Aura & Co. I.A. 42 Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Sr. Adv. (Sarda Mines) Mr. Parag P. Tripathi, Sr. Adv. 40, 61 Mr. Gopal Jain, Sr. Adv. Mr. R.N. Karanjawala, Adv.

Ms. Nandini Gore, Adv. Ms. Tahira Karanjawala, Adv. Ms. Natasha Sehrawat, Adv. Ms. Khushboo Bari, Adv. Mrs. Manik Karanjawala, Adv. Mr. Naveen Kumar, Adv. IA 22,68,75 & 85 Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Sr. Adv. Mr. Naveen Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sudeep Dey, Adv. Mr. Nishi Kant Singh, Adv. IA 15-16 Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anand Varma, Adv. Mr. Kaustubh Prakash, Adv. Mr. Shubhangi Jain, Adv. Mr. R.M. Patnaik, Adv. I.A.39, 71,63 Mr. P. Chidambaram, Sr. Adv. Mr. Raju Ramachandran, Sr. Adv. Mrs. Vanita Bhargava, Adv. 2 Mr. Ajay Bhargava, Adv. Kudrat Dev, Adv. Ms. Shreya Agrawal, Adv. for M/s Khaitan & Co. Indrani Patnaik Mr. Gopal Subramaniam, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashok K. Parija, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anand Verma, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Naveen Kumar, Adv. Mr. Dhananjay Mishra, Adv, Mr. Gaurav Khanna, Adv. Ms. Nishit Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Devika Mohan, Adv. Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR Tata Steel Ltd. Dr. A.M. Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashok K. Parija, Sr.Adv. Mr. Gopal Jain, Sr. Adv. Mr. Amar Dave, Adv. Mr. R.N. Karanjawala, Adv. Ms. Nandini Gore, Adv. Ms. Sonia Nigam, Adv. Mr. Abhinay Sharma, Adv. Ms. Neha Khandelwal, Adv . Ms. Tahira Karanjawala, Adv. Mr. Amit Bhandari., Adv. Mrs. Manik Karanjawala, Adv. For M/s. Karanjawala & Co. Jindal Steel Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aakash Bajaj, Adv. Ms. Suriti Chowdhary, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev K. Kapoor, Adv. OMC Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Raj Kumar Mehta, AOR Mr. Elangbam Premjit Sinth, Adv. Ms. Himanshi Andley, Adv. SAIL Mr. K.K. Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Jain, AOR Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Akarsh Garg, Adv. Mr. K.P.S. Chani, Adv. Odisha Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Ms. Kirti Renu Mishra, AOR Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Ms. Apurva Upmanya, Adv. Jharkhand Mr. Gopal Prasad, Adv. 3 FIMI Mr. Sunil Dogra, Adv. Mr. Vivek Vishnoi, Adv.

Mr. Abhishek Sharma, AOR Mr. Anupam Lal Das, AOR Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR Mr. Ashok H. Desai, Sr.Adv. Mr. Ashok K. Parija, Sr. Adv. Mr. Gaurav Kejriwal, AOR Mr. Keshav Mohan, Adv. Mr. Sujit Keshri, Adv. I.A. 45-48 Mr. Saraswata Mohapatra, Adv. Mr. P.R. Mishra, Adv. Ms. Rajani Ohri Lal, Adv. Mr. Himinder Lal, AOR Mr. Ashok Panigrahi, AOR I.A.12,13,15,16 Mr. Ashok Kr. Parija, Sr. Adv. 18,19,28,29, Mr. Dhananjaya Mishra, Adv. 30,54,60,90 Mr. Arnav Dash, Adv. Mr. Bishwaraj Sahoo, Adv. Mr. Avnish Kr. Sharma, Adv. Mr. R.M. Patnaik, Adv. Mr. Saurav Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Tayenjam Momo Singh, AOR Mr. Ashok Kr. Panda, Sr. Adv. Mr. Tejaswi Kumar Pradhan, AOR Mr. Manoranjan Paikaray, Adv. Mr. Anirudha Purushottam, Adv. I.A.49 Mr. Ashok H. Desai, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manas Ranjan Mohapatra, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, Adv. Mr. Lalit Mohapatra, Adv. Mr. Sitesh Narayan Singh, Adv. for M/s Aura & Co. I.A.52 Mr. Manas Ranjan Mohapatra, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, Adv. Mr. Lalit Mohapatra, Adv. for M/s Aura & Co. M/s. Fox Mandal & Co. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR 4 I.A. 87 & 91 Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rana Mukherjee, Sr. Adv. Ms. Movita, AOR Mr. R.L. Mitra, Adv. Ms. Daisy Hannah, Adv. Ms. Akhila J., Adv. Mr. Haris Beeran, AOR Mr. Kedar Nath Tripathy, AOR I.A. 51,82 & 89 Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Naveen Kumar, AOR Mr. Sudeep Dey, Adv. Mr. Nishi Kant Singh, Adv. I.A. 69,83 & 88 Mr. Naveen Kumar, AOR Mr. Sudeep Dey, Adv. Mr. Nishi Kant Singh, Adv. I.A.26 & 37 Mr. Ajit Kr. Sinha, Sr. Adv. Mr. Arvind Dattar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Naveen Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anand Varma, Adv. Mr. Nishit Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Sudeep Dey, Adv. Mr. Nishi Kant Singh, Adv. Ms. Ameyavikrama Thanvi, Adv. I.A. 38 Mr. Ajit Kumar Sinha, Sr. Adv. Mr. Naveen Kumar, Adv. Ms. Alankrita Sinha, Adv. I.A.62&84 Mr. Naveen Kumar, Adv. 51,82,83,88,89 Mr. Sudeep Dey, Adv. Mr. Nishi Kant Singh, Adv.

I.A. 54 Mr. Bhavani Shankar Gadnis, Adv. Mr. Vishwanath Gadnis, Adv. Mr. Naveen Kumar, Adv. Mrs. V.S. Lakshmi, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar, AOR I.A. 92,93,94 Mr. Ambhoj Kumar Sinha, AOR. I.A.95,96 Mr. V. Shekhar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nishant Anand, Adv. Mr. Sachin Das, Adv. Mr. Azim H. Laskar, Adv. Mr. Chandra Bhushan Prasad, Adv. 5 Mr. Biswajit Das, Adv. Telangana Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Adv. Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv. Mr. Aakash Bajaj, Adv. Ms. Suriti Chowdhary, Adv. For M/s. Khaitan & Co. Gujarat Ms. Hemantika Wahi, Adv. Ms. Mamta Singh, Adv. Haryana Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR Mr. Karunesh Kumar Shukla, Adv. W.B. Ms. Nandini Sen, Adv. Mr. Chanchal Kr. Ganguli, Adv. UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R Arguments heard in part. List the matters tomorrow (28.04.2017) at the end of the Board as part-heard matters. I.A. 97 of 2017 Learned counsel for the applicant seeks leave to withdraw the application. Leave to withdraw the application granted. The application is dismissed as withdrawn. (Meenakshi Kohli) (Sharda Kapoor) Court Master (SH) Court Master (NS) 6