Indian Oil Corp. Ltd vs. Ashok Kumar Paikaray

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) T.C.(C) No.151/2013 (XVI -A) T.C.(C) No.152/2013 (XVI -A) T.P.(C) No.1797/2013 (XVI -A) T.P.(C) No.1796/2013 (XVI -A) T.P.(C) No.313/2014 (XVI -A) Digitally signed by CHETAN KUMAR Date: 2018.04.03 17:11:45 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

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 : 03-04-2018 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<br>Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajendra Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Mrs. Rita Gupta, Adv.<br>Ms. Deepshikha Bharati, Adv.<br>Ms. Harsha, Adv.
	Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR
	Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR
	Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv.<br>Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv.<br>Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv.<br>Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR
	Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Pratap Venugopal, Adv.<br>Ms. Surekha Raman, Adv.<br>M/s.<br>K J John And Co, AOR
	M/s.<br>Meharia & Company
	Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR
	Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR<br>Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Anirben Sen, Adv.
	Mr. Chitrangada Rashtravede, Adv.<br>Mr. Gopal Thiruman, Adv.

Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv. Ms. Vaidruti Mishra, Adv. Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Ms. Vidyottma, Adv. Mr. Ravinder Lokhande, 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 Mr. Koshy John, Adv. Md. Nizam Pasha, Adv. Ms. Anusha Nagarajan, Adv. Mr. Adit Pujari, Adv. Ms. Pragya Baghel, AOR Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Adv. Ms. Samten Doma, Adv. Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv. Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv.

Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv. Mr. T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR Petitioner-in-person For Respondent(s) Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG Mr. Harish V. Shankar, Adv. Ms. Rukhmini Bobde, Adv. Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv. Ms. Shardha Desmukh, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. R. Bala Subramaniyam, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. Mr. M.K. Maroria, Adv. Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Adv. Ms. Bina Madhavan, Adv. Ms. Shreyasi Kunwar, 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 Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv. 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 Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. 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. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv. Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv. Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv. Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR 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. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR Mr. Manish Vashishtha, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Mr. S.S. Shamshery, AAG Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Singhk, Adv. Mr. Ankit Raj, Adv. 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 Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Shahid Hussain, Adv. 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. Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Ms. Jesal Wahi, Adv. Ms. Vishakha, Adv. Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Ms. Apoorva Garg, Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. 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. 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. Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Adv. Ms. Shireen Shukla, Adv. Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv. Mr. Mudit Sharma, 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. Anil Grover, Adv. Ms. Noopur Singhal, Adv. Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kr. Visen, 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. Bhupesh Narula, 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. Mr. Mutuvel Palani, Adv. Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Adv.

Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Mr. T.G.N. Nair, Adv. Mr. Jawher Raja, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rahat Sharma, Adv. Mr. Chinmay Kanojia, Adv. Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv. Ms. Shivani Khandekar, Adv. Ms. Aparna Bhat, Adv. Mr. Mayank Sapra, Adv. Mr. Shovodeep Roy, Adv. Mr. Sayooj Mohandas M., Adv. Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv. Mr. Ratan Kr. Choudhuri, Adv. Mr. Ajay Bansal, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Yadava, Adv. Mr. Vijay Pratap Yadav, Adv. Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonkar, Adv. Ms. Anu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv.

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

Mr. K.K. Venugopal, learned Attorney General for India read out the answers to the questionnaire given by Mr. Shyam Divan and Mr. K.V. Vishwanathan, learned senior counsel for the petitioners and, thereafter, proceeded to argue his points of view. Hearing remained inconclusive.

Mr. Shyam Divan, learned counsel for the petitioners has furnished three supplementary questions, answers to which shall be given by Mr. K.K. Venugopal, learned Attorney General tomorrow.

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Put up for further hearing tomorrow (04.04.2018).

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