Indian Oil Corp. Ltd vs. Ashok Kumar Paikaray

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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 ADDITIONAL 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 IA No.129017/2017-impleading party and IA No.129021/2017- Digitally signed by DEEPAK GUGLANI Date: 2018.02.21 17:28:47 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

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, Contempt. Pet.(C)no.34/2018 is to be shown in w.p. (c) no.1014/2017)

Date : 21-02-2018 These mattes were 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. Gopal Subramanium, Sr. Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv. Mr. Anirben Sen, Adv. Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Gopal Thiruman, Adv. Ms. Vaidruti Mishra, Adv. Mr. W. V.T. Sangama, Adv. Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Saini, Adv. Ms. Talha Rahman, Adv. Mr. Prateek Chadha, Adv. Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR Mr. Prasanna S., Adv. Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Ms. Vidyottma, Adv.

Mr. Harshit Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Goel, Adv. Ms. Annanya Ghose, Adv. Ms. Bhawna Das, Adv. Mr. Anand Kumar Sethi, Adv. Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv. Mr. Nanit Saxena, Adv. Mr. Devanshu Sajlan, Adv. Mr. Aditya P. Arora, Adv. Mr. Digant K. Deo, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR Mr. Prasanna S., Adv. Mr. Kumar Anurag Singh, Adv. Mr. Kumar Shivam, Adv. Ms. Stuti Vatsa, Adv. Mr/Ms. Srinidhi Rao, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pratap Venugopal, Adv. Ms. Surekha Raman, Adv. Mr. udayaditya Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Amy Sarma, Adv. Ms. Niharika, Adv. Ms. Samiksha Godiyal, Adv. Ms. Kanika Kalaiyarasan, Adv. M/s. K.J. John And Co, AOR Mr. P.R. Kovilan, Adv. Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR Mr. Awasthi M.K., Adv. Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. R.K. Rajwanshi, Adv. Mr. Chandra Shekhar Suman, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Deep Shikha Bharti, Adv. Ms. Rita Gupta, Adv. Ms. Harsha, Adv. 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. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Adv. Ms. Sonia Dube, Adv. Ms. Harshita Verma, Adv. for M/s. Legal Options Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Ms. Cheryl D'Souza, Adv. Mr. O. Kuttan, Adv. Ms. Neha Rathi, Adv. Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR Dr. Anindita Pujari, Adv. Ms. Kavita Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Amitoj Singh, Adv. 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 M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR Mr. al Kumar Ganguli, AOR Petitioner-in-person For Respondents/ Applicants Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv. Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv. Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. Fahad Khan, Adv. Ms. Bhavita Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv. Ms. Aarti Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Santosh Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Mr. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Mr. Nishe Rajan Shonker, Adv. Ms. Annu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Manav Vohra, Adv. Mr. Krishna Dev J., Adv. Mr. Amith Krishnan, Adv. Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.A., Adv. Ms. Svadha Shankar, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv. Mr. H.S. Parihar, AOR Mr. R. Sudhinder, Adv. Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Ms. Amrita Sarkar, Adv. Ms. Saumya Mehrotra, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv. Mr. Sayooj Mohandas M., Adv. Mr. Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Adv. Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Ms. Shikha Aggrawal, Adv. Mr. Raja Chatterjee, Adv. Mr. Piyush Sachdev, Adv. Mr. Adeel Ahmed, Adv. Ms. Runa Bhuyan, Adv. Ms. Shikha Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Ms. Simran Jeet, Adv. for M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr. Anil Grover, AAG, Haryana Ms. Noopur Singhal, Adv. Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv. Ms. Sasmita Tripathy, Adv. Mr. Suraj P. Ahlawat, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kr. Visen, Adv.

Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv. Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Devadatt Kamat, AAG, Karnataka Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv. Mrs. Priya Aristotle, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv. Mr. Ashish Yadav, Adv. Mr. Javedur Rehman, Adv. Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv. Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv. Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv. Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Mr. T.G.N. Nair, Adv. Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Edward Belho, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv. Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv. Mr. Daniel S. Lyngdoh, Adv. Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Sunil Fernandes, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv. Ms. Nupur Kumar, Adv. Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv. Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv. Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR Ms. Fauzia Shakil, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv. Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan, Adv. Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv. Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Mrs. G. Indira, Adv. Mr. J.S. Attri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Chandra Nand Jha, Adv.

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Ms. Parul Sharma, Adv. Mr. Yugal K. Prasad, Adv. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, AOR Mr. V.G. Pragasam, AOR Mr. S. Prabhu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Mr. S. Manu Raj, Adv. Mr. K.V. Vijayakumar, AOR Ms. Maitreyee Mishra, Adv. Ms. Vaishali Verma, Adv. M/s. Lawyer's Knit & Co, AOR Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. L. Roshmani K., Adv. Mr. Maibam Babina, Adv. Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amit Meharia, Adv. Ms. Tannishtha Singh, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv. for M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR Mr. Dinkar Kalra, AOR Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR Ms. Savita Singh, AOR Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR Mr. T.G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR Mr. Manish Vashishtha, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR M/S. Corporate Law Group, AOR Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR

Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR Intervenor-in-person, AOR Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Applicant-in-person, AOR Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR Mr. Rabin Majumder, 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. Sajan Poovayya, Sr. Adv. Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Pratibhanu Kharola, Adv. Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Saransh Jain, Adv. Mr. R. Madhavam Sharma, Adv. Mr. Meka Venkata Rama Krishna, Adv. Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR Ms. Ashima Mandla, Adv. Ms. Fuzail Ahmed Ayubbi, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Malhotra, Adv. Mr. Ibad Mushtaq, Adv. Mr. Siddhant Sharma, Adv. Mr. Afaraz Khan, Adv. Ms. G. Bhargava, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Kuber Boddh, Adv. Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv. Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv. Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR Mr. S. Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Sriram P., Adv. Ms. Khushbu Jain, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Shankar M.S., Adv. Ms. A.G. Nair, Adv. Mr. Sai Krishna Rajagopal, Adv.

Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv. Mr./Ms. Julien George, Adv. Ms. Arundhati Gopaol, Adv.

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

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

Mr. Gopal Subramanium, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 37/2015 continued his arguments, which remained inconclusive.

Put up for further hearing on 22.2.2018.

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