Indian Oil Corp. Ltd vs. Ashok Kumar Paikaray

ITEM NO.1502 COURT NO.1 SECTION PIL-W (For Judgment)

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. Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)

WITH W.P.(C) No.833/2013 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.829/2013 (PIL-W) 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) W.P.(C) No.797/2016 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.342/2017 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.372/2017 (X) W.P.(C) No.841/2015 (X) W.P.(C) No.1058/2017 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.966/2017 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.1014/2017 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.1002/2017 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.1056/2017 (X) 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) 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 Digitally signed by CHETAN KUMAR Date: 2018.09.27 13:57:53 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

Date : 26-09-2018 These petitions were called on for pronouncement of Judgment today.

For Petitioner(s)	Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR<br>Mr. Chandra Shekar Suman, Adv.<br>Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajendra Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Rita Gupta, Adv.<br>Ms. Deepshikha Bharati, Adv.<br>Mr. R.K. Rajwanshi, Adv.<br>Mr. Puneet Sheoran, Adv.<br>Mr. Nisarg Chaudhary, Adv.<br>Ms. Harsha, Adv.
	Mr. P.R. Kovilan, Adv.<br>Mr. V. Vasudevan, Adv.<br>Ms. Jubili Momalia, Adv.<br>Ms. Aswathi M.K., Adv.<br>Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR
	Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR<br>Ms. Annanya Ghose, Adv.<br>Ms. Bhabna Das, Adv.<br>Mr. Shashwat Goel, Adv.<br>Mr. Anand Kumar Sethi, Adv.
	Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR<br>Ms. Rudrakshi Deo, Adv.<br>Mr. Ahmed Said, Adv.<br>Hafsa Khan, Adv.<br>Ms. Shruti Narayan, Adv.
	Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Pratap Venugopal, Adv.<br>Ms. Surekha Raman, Adv.<br>Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, Adv.<br>Mr. Anuj Sarma, Adv.<br>Mr. Prasanna S., Adv.<br>Ms. Niharika, Adv.<br>Ms. Sameeksha Godiyal, Adv.<br>Ms. Kritika Bharadwaj, Adv.
	M/s.<br>K J John And Co, AOR<br>M/s.<br>Meharia & Company
	Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR
	Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv.<br>Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR<br>Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Talha Rahman, Adv.<br>Mr. Anirban Sen, Adv.<br>Mr. Prateek Chadha, Adv.

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Mr. Hitesh Saini, Adv. Hima Lawrence, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv. Ms. Chitrangadha R., Adv. Ms. Ritu Apurva, Adv. Mr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv. Mr. Alok Singh, Adv. Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Sr. Adv. Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Talha Abdul Rehman, Adv. Mr. Vivek Raja, Adv. Mr. Jaya Vardhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Saini, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Mr. P. Chidambaram, Sr. Adv. Mr. Muhammad Ali Khan, Adv. Mr. R.V. Prabhat, Adv. Mr. Vikramditya Singh, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Gupta, Adv. Mr. Omar Hoda, Adv. Mr. Jaspal Singh, Adv. Ms. Prianka Rao Khan, Adv. Mr. Namrah Nasir, Adv. Mr. Abishek Jebraj, Adv. Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR Mr. Zafar Khurshid, Adv. Mr. Javedur Rahaman, Adv. Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv. Mr. Prakash Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anuj Saxena, Adv. Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR Mr. P.B. Suresh, Adv. Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, Adv. Mr. S. Prasanna, Adv. Mr. Abhay Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Karthik Jayashankar, Adv. Mr. Vikrant Yadav, Adv. Mr. Tishampati Sen, Adv. Mr. Prithu Garg, Adv. Mr. Anshumaan Bahadur, Adv. Ms. Samiksha Godiyal, Adv.

	Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR
	Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Adv.<br>Mr. Harsh Hiroo Gursahani, Adv.<br>Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Abhishek Manchanda, Adv.<br>Ms. Kajal Dalal, Adv.<br>Mr. Vishal Prasad, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Verma, Adv.<br>M/s. PLR Chambers and Co.
	Mr. Anand Grover, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR<br>Mr. M. Prasana, Adv.<br>Ms. Tulika Mukherjee, Adv.<br>Ms. Stuti Vatsa, Adv.
	Ms. Pragya Baghel, AOR
	Mr. Arvind P. Datar, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv.<br>Mr. Prasanna S., Adv.<br>Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR
	Mr. K.V. Viswanathan, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv.<br>Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv.<br>Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv.<br>Mr. T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR
	Petitioner-in-person
	Mr. Arvind P. Datar, Adv.<br>Mr. Shyam Divan, Adv.<br>Mr. Uday Banerjee, Adv.<br>Mr. Deepak Joshi, Adv.
For Respondent(s)	Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG<br>Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG<br>Mr. Zoheb Hussain, AOR<br>Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv<br>Ms. Shardha Deshmukh, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.<br>Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv.<br>Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv.<br>Ms. Charanya L., Adv.<br>Mr. Rohit Bhat, Adv.<br>Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv.<br>Mr. R. Bala Subramaniyam, Adv.

Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Walesha, Adv. Ms. Sauchi Malhotra, Adv. Ms. Bina Madhavan, Adv. Mr. Prasanth Sugathan, Adv. Mr. Sukara sigh Maini, Adv. Ms. Vaishali Verma, Adv. Ms. Shreyasi Kunwar, Adv. M/s. Lawyer S Knit & Co. M/s. Meharia & Company Mr. Sajan Poovayya, Sr. Adv. Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Pratibhanu Singh Kharola, Adv. Ms. Sriparna Dutta Choudhury, Adv. Mr. Saransh Jain, Adv. Mr. Madhavam Sharma, Adv. Mr. Meka Venkata Rama Krishna, Adv. Mr. Nithin Chowdary, Adv. 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 Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR Mr. Kuldip S. Parihar, Adv. Mr. H. S. Parihar, AOR Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR Md. Waquas, Adv. Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Sukant Vikram, Adv.

Mr. Kumar Anurag Singh, Adv. Mr. Gopal Sankarnarayanan, Adv. Mr. Aishwarya Kane, Adv. Ms. Savita Singh, AOR Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv. Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv. Ms. Sheena Taqui, Adv. Mr. Bharath Gangadharan, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. K.N. Madhu Soodhanan, Adv. Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Mr. Baij nath Patel, Adv. Ms. Sweta, Adv. Ms. Romila, Adv. Mr. V. G. Pragasam, AOR Mr. S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Mr. S. Manuraj, Adv. Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Purnima Krishna, Adv. Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR Mr. Manish Vashishtha, AOR Mr. Nishant Singh, Adv. Mr. Krishnam Mishra, Adv. Mr. Yasharth Kant, Adv. Mr. Anil Grover, Adv. Mr. Shekhar Raj Sharma, Adv. Ms. Rachna Gandhi, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Mr. Rajiv Sinha, Adv.

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Mr. Vivek Jaiswal, Adv. Ms. Ritu Rastogi, Adv. Ms. Noopur Singhal, Adv. Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv. Md. Izhar Alam, Adv. Mr. Intakhab Alam, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. Prakash Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anuj Saxena, Adv. Mohd. Naved, Adv. Mr. Sarbendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR Mr. A. Mariarputham, Sr. Adv. Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Ms. Geetanjali, Adv. M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, aDv. M/s. Corporate Law Group Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR Mr. A. Selvin Raja, Adv. Ms. Charudatta Mahindrakar, aDv. Mr. Chirag Jain, Adv. Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. R. Sudhinder, Adv. Ms. Saumya Mehrotra, Adv. Ms. Saumya Mehrotra, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Ms. Jesal Wahi, Adv. Ms. Vishakha, Adv.

Ms. Mamta Singh, Adv. Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Dr. (Mrs. ) Vipin Gupta, AOR Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Adv. Mr. Parinav Gupta, Adv. Ms. Mansi Gupta, Adv. Mr. Wazir Singh Malik, Adv. Mr. Moazzam Ali, Adv. Mr. Raja Chatterjee, Adv. Runamoni Bhuyan, Adv. Mr. Piyush Sachdev, Adv. Mr. Adeel Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Intervenor-in-person, AOR Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Applicant-in-person, AOR Mr. Arvind P. Datar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv. Mr. Namit Saxena, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR Mr. Wills Mathews, Adv. Shaji Sebastian, Adv. Mr. Paul John Edison, Adv. Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR M/s. Khaitan & Co. Mr. Harsh Kaushik, AOR Mr. K. R. Sasiprabhu, AOR Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR Mr. M.P. Vinod, AOR Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv. Ms. Nina Gupta, Adv. Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv. Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR

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Mr. Shinoj K. Narayan, Adv. Mr. Niji Mathew, Adv. Mr. K. Rajeev, AOR Ms. Disha Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Karan Bhariokhe, Adv. Mr. Nav Kiran Bholay, Adv. Mr. Leishangthem Roshmani Kh., Adv. Ms. Maibam Babina, Adv. Mrs. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv. Mr. Samar Kachwaha, Adv. Mr. Bommineni Vivekananda, Adv. Ms. Chanan Parwani, Adv. Mr. Divyanshu Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Viren Sibal, Adv. Mr. Varun Mathur, Adv. Mr. Akash Lamba, Adv. Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv. Mr. Rahul Matthan, Adv. Ms. Shivani Khandekar, Adv. Mr. Thomas J. Vallianeth, Adv. Mr. Bhavanishankar V. Gadnis, Adv. Mr. Vishwanath V. Gadnis, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Manoj Mishra, Adv. Radni V. Gadnish, Adv. V.S. Lakshmi, Adv. Mr. Saikrishna Rajgopal, Adv. Mr. Julien George, Adv. Arundhati Gopal, Adv. Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Sonker, Adv. Anu K. Joy, Adv. Alim Anvar, Adv. Reegan S. Bel, Adv. Mr. Ajay Bansal, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Yadava, Adv. Ms. Veena Bansal, Adv. Mr. Kuldeep Singh, Adv. Ms. Anindita Pujari, Adv. Jayna Kuthari, Adv. Ms. Kavita Bhardwaj, Adv.

Ms. Aparna Bhat, Adv. Mr. Joshit A. Pai, Adv. Mr. Vikas Mahajan, Adv. Mr. Vinod Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Ashwani Kr. Dubey, Adv. Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv. Mr. Ratan Kr. Choudhuri, Adv. Mr. K.T.S. Tulsi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Fuzail Ahmad ayyubi, Adv. Mr. Abdul Qadir, Adv. Ms. Ashima Mandla, Adv. Mr. Ibad Mushtaq, Adv. Ms. Mandakini Singh, Adv. Ms. Aditi Gupta, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Arora, Adv. Mr. Jawad Tariq, Adv. Ms. Kauser Husain, Adv. Ms. Deepali Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Ms. G. Indira, Adv. Mr. C.U. Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Jawahar Raja, Adv.

Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Chinmay Kanogia, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv. Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv. Mr. Somnath Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Manoj R. Sinha, Adv. Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, Adv. 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. Shiva P., Adv. Ms. Aruna Hanna Dutta, Adv.

Mr. Dhiraj Philip, Adv.

Mr. Arun Singh, Adv.

Mr. Anand Grover, Sr. Adv. Mr. Samir A. Vaidya, Dav. Mr. Pankaj Sharma, Adv.

Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv. Mr. P.V. Surendranath, Sr. Adv. Ms. Resmitha R. Chandran, Adv. Ms. Lekha Sudhakaran, Adv. Mr. Pramod P., Adv.

Hon'ble Mr. Justice A.K. Sikri (on behalf of Hon'ble the Chief Justice, himself and A.M. Khanwilkar, J.), Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud and Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ashok Bhushan pronounced three separate judgments of the Bench comprising 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 and Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ashok Bhushan.

The writ petitions, transferred cases, special leave petition, transfer petitions, contempt petitions and all the pending applications are disposed of in terms of the signed reportable judgment.

(Chetan Kumar) (H.S. Parasher) A.R.-cum-P.S. Assistant Registrar (Three signed reportable judgments are placed on the file)