Union Of India vs. Dr. S. G. Sudharshan

ITEM NO.3 COURT NO.4 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(s)(Civil) No(s). 349/2006

VOLUNTARY HEALTH ASS. OF PUNJAB Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)

(with appln. (s) for clarification and directions and exemption from filing O.T. and further direction and impleadment as party respondent and permission and office report)

WITH

SLP(Crl) No. 5800/2013 (With Office Report) W.P.(C) No. 575/2014 (With Office Report) SLP(Crl) No. 10368/2015 (With Interim Relief and Office Report)

Date : 12/01/2016 This petition was called on for hearing today.

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DIPAK MISRA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA

For Petitioner(s) Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Ms. Sodhika Sharma, Adv. Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR

SLP 5800/13 Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR

WP 575/14 Mr. Kapil Joshi, Adv. Ms. Manju Sharma Jetley, AOR

For Respondent(s) Mr. N.K. Kaul, ASG Mr. S. Wasim A. Qadri, Adv. Ms. Binu Tamta, Adv. Ms. Sunita Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.S. Rawat, Adv. Ms. Chanan Parwani, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Mishra, Adv. Mr. Ajay Sharma, Adv. Mr. Zaid Ali, Adv. Mr. Shadman Ali, Adv. Mr. R.R. Rajesh, Adv. Digitally signed by Gulshan Kumar Arora Date: 2016.01.15 17:26:23 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

Mr. D.S. Mahra, AOR

Chhattisgarh Mr. A.P. Mayee, Adv. Mr. Pawan Shri Agarwal, Adv. Mr. A. Selvin Raja, Adv. U.P. Mr. Ranjit Rao, AAG Mr. Abhishek Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhisth Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Ravi Prakash Mehrotra, Adv. Jharkhand Mr. Anil Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. R.K. Ojha, Adv. Arunachal Pradesh Mr. Anil Shrivastav, Adv. Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv. Tripura Mr. Gopal Singh, Adv. Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv. Ms. Varsha Poddar, Adv. Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR Mr. Arun K. Sinha, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Manipur Mr. Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Adv. Ms. Linthoingambi Thongam, Adv. Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.A. Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, AOR. Mr. Avijit Bhattacharjee, AOR Nagaland Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Edward Belho, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR Tamil Nadu Mr. B. Balaji, AOR Mr. Sudhansu, Adv. Mr. B.S. Banthia, AOR Mr. D. Mahesh Babu, AOR Mr. Gaurav Kejriwal, AOR Bihar Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. Chandan Kumar, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, Adv.

	Ms. Vimla Sinha, Adv.
Uttarakhand	Mr. Tanmaya Agarwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR
	Ms. Rachana Srivastava, AOR<br>Ms. Garmia Srivastava, Adv.
	Mr. Jay Kishor Singh, AOR
	Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR
	Mr. P.N. Gupta, AOR
	Mr. P.V. Dinesh, AOR
Mizoram	Mr. T.L.V. Ramachari, Adv.<br>Mr. K.V.L. Raghavan, Adv.
	Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv.
	Mr. Pragyan Pradeep Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Ravi Kant, Adv.
	Mr. P.V. Yogeswaran, AOR
Meghalaya	Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR
Haryana	Mr. Dinesh Chander Yadav, AAG
	Mr. A.S. Rishi, Adv.
	Dr. Sukhdev Sharma, Adv.
	Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR
	Mrs. B. Sunita Rao, AOR
	Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR
	Mr. Shriram P. Pingle, AOR
	Mr. T. Harish Kumar, AOR
	Mr. T.V. George, AOR
Puducherry	Mr. V.G. Pragasam, AOR
	Mr. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv.
	Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR
	Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR
	Ms. C.K. Sucharita, AOR
Assam	Ms. Vartika Walia, Adv.<br>for M/s Corporate Law Group

Andaman & Nicobar	Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv.<br>Ms. G. Indira, AOR
Gujarat	Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR<br>Ms. Vinakshi Kadan, Adv.<br>Ms. Puja Singh, Adv.
	Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, AOR
H.P.	Mr. Suryanarayana Singh, AAG<br>Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR
Rajasthan	Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Ishu Prayash, Adv.<br>Mr. S. Spandana Reddy, Adv.<br>Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR
	Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR
	Mr. Merusagar Samantaray, AOR
	Mr. Gaurav Sharma, AOR
J & K	Mr. G.M. Kawoosa, Adv.<br>Mr. Sunil Fernandes, AOR
Punjab	Mr. Ajay Bansal, AAG<br>Mr. Kuldip Singh, AOR<br>Mr. Gaurav Yadava, Adv.<br>Mr. Ram Naresh Yadav, AOR
Telengana	Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Adv.<br>Mr. Krishna Kumar Singh, Adv.
Maharashtra	Mr. Mahaling Pandarge, AAG<br>Mr. Nishant Katneshwarkar, AOR
Chandigarh	Ms. Udita Singh, Adv,<br>Mr. Chandra Prakash, Adv.
West Bengal	Mr. Joydeep Mazumdar, Adv.<br>Mr. Parijat Sinha, Adv.<br>Ms. Reshmi Rea Sinha, Adv.<br>Mr. Rohit Dutta, Adv.
Madhya Pradesh	Mr. Mishra Saurabh, Adv.<br>Mr. Ankit Kumar Lal, Adv.
Kerala	Mr. Ramesh babu, Adv.

Mr. Anupam Lal Das, Adv. Mr. Sahil Monga, Adv. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, Adv. Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Sikkim Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Mr. Yusuf Khan, Adv. Mr. Shobhit Nanda, Adv. For Arputham Aruna & Co. Ms. A. Subhashini, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Srivastava, AOR. SLP 10368/15 Mr. Aruneshwar Gupta, AOR.

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

Mr. Gonsalves and Mr. Parekh, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioners submit that they have already filed a note indicating the suggestions for the proper implementation of Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994. That apart, it has been indicated therein that how the mistake had occurred in the decision rendered in the same case reported in Voluntary Health Association of Punjab vs. Union of India [(2013) 4 SCC 1]. Copies of of the written note/suggestions shall be handed over to learned counsel for each of the States and Union Territories who shall file their responses/suggestions within four weeks hence. It is hereby made clear that no further time shall be granted.

Let the matter be listed on 15.03.2016.

(Gulshan Kumar Arora) (H.S. Parasher) Court Master Court Master