Indian Oil Corp. Ltd vs. Ashok Kumar Paikaray

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).494/2012

JUSTICE K.S.PUTTASWAMY(RETD) AND ANR. Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. Respondent(s)

([ FOR FURTHER HEARING ]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 ADDTIONAL 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 Digitally signed by CHETAN KUMAR Date: 2018.03.16 14:19:34 TLT Reason: Signature Not Verified

No.129021/2017-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 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) (In W.P.(C)No.1014/2017, For admission Contempt. Pet.(C)no.34/2018 is to be shown in w.p.(c)no.1014/2017) Date : 15-03-2018 These petitions 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 Petitioner(s) Mr.K.V.Vishwanathan, Sr.Adv. (In WP(C) 833/13) Ms.Vrinda Bhandari, Adv. Mr.Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr.N.Sai Vinod, Adv. Mr.Shadan Farasat, AOR In WP(C)1056/17 Mr.K.V.Vishwanathan, Sr.Adv. Ms.Vrinda Bhandari, Adv. Mr.Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr.N.Sai Vinod, Adv. Mr.T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pratap Venugopal, Adv. Ms.Surekha Raman, Adv. Ms. Niharika, Adv. Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, Adv. Ms. Kanika Kalaiyarasan, Adv. Ms. Sameeksha Godiyal, Adv. Mr. Prasanna S., Adv.

for M/s. K J John And Co., Advs. [AOR] In WP(C) 1058/17 Mr.Anand Grover, Sr.Adv. Mr.Priyam Lizmary Cherian, Adv. Ms.Upasana Garnaik, Adv. Mr.Varun Thomas, Adv. Ms.Stuti Vatsa, Adv. Mr.Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr.Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr.Adv. Mr.Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Ms.Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Ms.Hemantika Wahi, Adv. In T.C.(C) 152/13 Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR Mr.Apar Gupta, Adv. Mr.Nappinai N.A., Adv. Ms.Ananya Ghose, Adv. Ms.Bhavna Das, Adv. Mr.Shashwat Goel, Adv. Mr.Shyam Diwan, Sr.Adv. Mr.Abhishek Atrey, AOR Ms.Vidyattma, Adv. Mr.Ravi Lokhundu, Adv. WP(C)No.494/12 Mr.Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr.Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr.Rajendra Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr.Chandra Shekhar Suman, Adv. Ms.Rita Gupta, Adv. Ms.Deepshikha Bharati, Adv. Ms.Harsha, Adv. Mr.Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr.Deepak Joshi, Adv. Mr.Udayaditya Banerjee, Adv. Ms.Aishwarya Bhati, AOR Mr.Jaideep Singh, Adv. Dr.Nupur Bhati, Adv. Mr.Anirben Sen, Adv. Mr.Gopal Thiruman, Adv. Mr.Pavan Bhushan, Adv. Mr.Jayavardhan Singh, Adv. Mr.Vaidruti Mishra, Adv.

Mr.Prashant Bhushan, AOR Ms.Cheryl D'Souza, Adv.

Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv. Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv. Mr.Fahad M.Khan, Adv. Ms.Bhavita Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv. Mr.Raj Bahadur, Adv. For State of Kerala Mr.V.Giri, Sr.Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajan Shonker, Adv. Mrs. Annu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Manav Vohra, Adv. Mr. Krishna Dev J., Adv. Mr. Amith Krishna, Adv. Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.A., Adv. Mr.Alim Anvar, Adv. Ms.Svadha Shankar, Adv. For State of Guj. Mr.Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr.Adv. Ms.Hemantika Wahi, AOR Ms.Shodhika Sharma, Adv. Ms.Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Ms.Apoorva Garg, Adv. In WP(C)932/13 & Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv. WP(C) 37/15 Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv. Mr. H. S. Parihar, AOR Mr.P.V.Surendra Nath, Sr.Adv. For State of Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Sikkim Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Ms. Simran Jeet, Adv. For M/S.Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr.Sajan Poovayya, Sr.Adv. Mr.Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv. Mr.Pratibhanu S.Kharola, Adv. Mr.Saransh Kumar, Adv. Mr.Saransh Jain, Adv. Mr.Madhavam Sharma, Adv. Mr.Meka Venkata Rama Krishna, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR For State of Mr. Edward Belho, AAG Nagaland Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv. Ms.Bina Madhavan, Adv. Ms.Swati Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr.Piyush Dwivedi, Adv.

Ms.Ramandeep Kaur, Adv. Ms.Shreyasi Kunwar, Adv. Ms.Elizabeth Antony, Adv. For M/S. Lawyer S Knit & Co, AOR Mr.Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Ms.Rohini Musa, Adv. Mr.N.R.Katneshwarkar, Adv. Mr. Amit Mohan Meharia, Adv. Ms. Tannishtha Singh, Adv. Ms. Rishita Hall, Adv. For M/s. Meharia & Company, Advs. [AOR] Mr.Saikrishna Rajagopal, Adv. Ms.Julien George, Adv. Ms.Arundhati Gopal, Adv. Mr.Arjun Ranganathan, Adv. Ms.Vaneesha Jain, Adv. Mr.Nikhil Nayyar, Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR Ms. Fauzia Shakil, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv. Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan, Adv. Mr.Dinkar Kalra, AOR For State of Mr.Gopal Singh, AOR Tripura Mr.Rituraj Biwas, Adv. Ms.Rashmi Singhania, AOR For E.C.I. Mr.Mohit D. Ram, Adv. Ms.Monisha Handa, Adv. Mr.Bhagirath Patel, Adv. For State of Mr.S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Telangana Mr.Mrityunjai Singh, Adv. For State of Mr.Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR Jharkhand Mohd.Waquas, Adv. Mr.Jayesh Gaurav, Adv. Mr.Ratan Kr.Choudhuri, Adv. Ms.Savita Singh, AOR Mr.Jayant Mohan, AOR

Mr.Sanjay Kapur, AOR Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv. Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv. Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv. For State of Mr. Devadatt Kamat, Addl. Adv. Gen. 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. For State of Mr.Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Meghalaya Mr.Daniel Stone Lyngdoh, Adv. Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR For Govt. of Mr.V. G. Pragasam, AOR Puducherry Mr.S.Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Mr.S.Manuraj, Adv. Mr.Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR For State of Mr.Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, Adv. Uttarakhand Mr.Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv. For State of H.P. Mr.Abhinav Mukerji, AAG Mrs.Bihu Sharma, Adv. Ms.Purnima Krishna, Adv. Mr.Mishra Saurabh, AOR Mr.Manish Vashishtha, AOR For State of Mr. Anil Grover, AAG Haryana Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR For UT of Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv. Andaman & Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Nicobar Admn. Mrs. G. Indira, Adv. Ms.Radhika Chautervedi, Adv. Mr.Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr.S.K.Rajora, Adv. For State of A.P. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, Adv. Ms.Prerna Singh, Adv.

Ms.Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr.S.Mukherjee, Adv. Mr.Manoj K. Mishra, AOR Mr.Umesh Dubey, Adv. Mr.Ashish Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr.Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR M/S. Corporate Law Group, AOR Mr.Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR Mr.Garvesh Kabra, AOR Mr.Harish Pandey, AOR Mr.Ashok Mathur, Adv. Mr.R.Sudhinder, Adv. Mr.Saumya Mehrotra, Adv. Mrs.Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr.Anip Sachthey, AOR Ms.Anitha Shenoy, AOR Dr.(Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, AOR For State of W.B. Mr.Soumitra G.Chaudhuri, Adv. Mr.Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Intervenor-in-person, AOR Mr.Amit Sharma, AOR Applicant-in-person Ms.Nipun Saxena, Adv. Mr.Namit Saxena, Adv. Mr.Devanshu S., Adv. Mr.Aditya P.Arora, Adv. Mr.Digant K.Deo, Adv. Ms.Pallavi Pratap, AOR Mr.K.V.Vijayakumar, Adv. Ms.Maitreyee Mishra, Adv. Mr.Muthu Vel Palani M., Adv. Mr.Jogy Scaria, AOR Mr.Rabin Majumder, AOR

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

Mr.K.V.Vishwanathan, learned senior counsel representing the petitioner in WP(C)No.833 of 2013 and W.P.(C)No.1056 of 2017 concluded his arguments. Thereafter, Mr.Anand Grover, learned senior counsel for the petitioner in W.P.(C)No.1058 of 2017 commenced and concluded his arguments. Ms.Meenakshi Arora, learned senior counsel for the petitioner in T.C.(C)No.152 of 2013 commenced her arguments, which remained inconclusive. Mrs.Meenakshi Arora, learned senior counsel has very fairly agreed that she will conclude her arguments on 20.03.2018 within twenty minutes. Mr.Sajan Poovayya, learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the applicant(s) in I.A.No.1551/2018 in W.P.(C)No.342 of 2017 undertakes that he will conclude his arguments within twenty minutes. Mr. P.V. Surendra Nath, learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the applicant(s) would conclude his arguments within ten minutes. After the completion of arguments of the counsel for the petitioners, the Court shall proceed to hear the arguments of the learned Attorney General for India.

Let the matter be listed on 20.03.2018 for further hearing.

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