Union Of India Ministry Of Home Affairs Secretary vs. V. Sriharan @ , Murugan

ITEM NO.501 (PH) COURT NO.1 SECTION X

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Writ Petition(Criminal) No. 48/2014

UNION OF INDIA Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

V. SRIHARAN @ MURUGAN & ORS. Respondent(s) (With appln.(s) for stay and intervention, impleadment as party respondent(s) and granting permission to consider and decide appln. of life convicts for seeking remission, for impleadment and to vacate the interim stay, impleadment a/w unregistered appln. for direction, addl. documents, seeking intervention)

WITH

W.P.(Crl.) No. 185/2014 (With appln.(s) for bail and Office Report) W.P.(Crl.) No. 150/2014 W.P.(Crl.) No. 66/2014 (With appln.(s) for directions and Office Report) Crl.A. No. 1215/2011

Date : 05/08/2015 These petitions/appeal were/was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

17:05:34 IST Reason:

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE FAKKIR MOHAMED IBRAHIM KALIFULLA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE UDAY UMESH LALIT

For Petitioner(s) Mr.Ranjit Kumar, Sol.Gen.of India Ms.V.Mohana, Sr.Adv. Mrs. Binu Tamta, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Tamta, Adv. Mr.D.L.Chidananda,Adv. Ms.Movita, Adv. Mr.R.K.Verma, Adv. Mr. B. Krishna Prasad,Adv. Ms.Sushma Suri, Adv. Mr. Sinha Shrey Nikhilesh, Adv. Mr.Sarthak Sachdev,Adv. Mr.Toyesh Tewari, Adv. Mr.Jai Sahai Endlaw,Adv. Mr.Shouryendu Ray,Adv. Mr. Maanav Kumar, Adv. Mr. T.N. Razdan, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Nanda, Adv. Digitally signed by Charanjeet Kaur Date: 2015.08.05 Signature Not Verified

	Mr.Vinay Navare, Adv.<br>Mr.Satyajeet Kr., Adv.<br>Mr. Keshav Ranjan, Adv.<br>Mr.Gwen K.B., Adv.<br>Ms. Abha R. Sharma,Adv.
	Mr. Harshvir Pratap Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Ajay Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr.Pankaj Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit, Adv.
	Mr. Varun Thakur, Adv.<br>Ms. Shraddha Saran, Adv.<br>Mr.Varinder Kumar Sharma, Adv.
	Mr. Renjith B. Marar, Adv.<br>Ms. Lakshmi N. Kamal, Adv.<br>Ms. Anu Dixit Kaushik, Adv.<br>Mr.S.C.Patel, Adv.
For Respondent(s)<br>For Tamil Nadu	Mr.Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr.Adv.<br>Mr. Subramonium Prasad, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms.Sansriti Pathak, Adv.<br>Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna,Adv.<br>Mr. Jayant Patel, Adv.
For West Bengal	Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv.<br>Mr.Anip Sachthey, Adv.<br>Mr. Kabir S. Bose, Adv.<br>Ms. Shagun Matta, Adv.
R.No.1	Mr. Ram Jethmalani, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr.Yug Chaudhry, Adv.<br>Mr. Kovilan Poonkuntran, Adv.<br>Mr. S. Gowthaman, Adv.<br>Ms. Lata Krishnamurty, Adv.<br>Mr. Sidharth Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Rohit Kumar, Adv.<br>Ms. Mala, Adv.
R.Nos. 2,4 to 7	Mr. Yug Chaudhry, Adv.<br>Mr. Sidhartha Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv.<br>Mr. S. Gowthaman, Adv.<br>Mr. Sethu Mahendran, Adv.

rr.3	Mr. Rishab Sancheti, Adv.<br>Mr. K. Paarivendhan, Adv.<br>Mr. K. Malar Vendhan, Adv.<br>Mr. S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv.
For Karnataka	Ms. Anitha Shenoy, Adv.<br>Ms. Aparna Appaiah, Adv.<br>Mr. E.C. Vidya Sagar, Adv.
	Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra-I,Adv.
For Manipur	Mr.Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh,Adv.<br>Mr.Z.H.Isaac Haiding, Adv.<br>Mr. S.Vijayanand Sharma, Adv.
	Mr. Balaji Srinivasan,Adv.
For Chhattisgarh	Mr.C.D. Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Sylona Mohapatra, Adv.<br>Mr.Atul Jha, Adv.<br>Mr.Sandeep Jha, Adv.<br>Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha,Adv.
	Mr. Gopal Singh,Adv.<br>Mr.Manish Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Chandan Kumar, Adv.
For Tripura	Mr.Gopal Singh, Adv.<br>Mr.Rituraj Biswas, Adv.
For A.P.	Mr. Guntur Prabhakar,Adv.<br>Ms.Prerna Singh, Adv.
	Mr. Mishra Saurabh,Adv.<br>Ms.Vanshaja Shukla, Adv.<br>Mr.Ankit Kr.Lal, Adv.
For Goa	Mr. A.N.S. Nadkarni, Adv. Gen.<br>Mr. Dattaprasad Lawande, Adv.<br>Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Adv.<br>Mr. Anshuman Srivastava, Adv.<br>Mr. Pradosh Dangui, Adv.<br>Mr. Siddharth Mohan, Adv.<br>Mr. Amogh Prabhudesai, Adv.<br>Mr. Nirnimesh Dube,Adv.

Intervenor Mr.Sanjay Parikh, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar,Adv. Mr. Sumit Kumar Vats, Adv. Mrs. Geetha Kovilan,Adv. Mr. P.R. Kovilan, Adv. Mr. V. Vasudevan, Adv. For Jharkhand Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh,Adv. Mohd.Waquas, Adv. For Puducherry Mr. V. G. Pragasam,Adv. Mr.Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Ms. Anitha Shenoy,Adv. Ms. Visruti Vijay, Adv. For Sikkim Ms.Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr.Yusuf Khan, Adv. Mr. K. Vijay Kumar, Adv For M/s Arputham, Aruna & Co.,Adv. For Assam Ms. Vartika S. Walia, Adv. for M/s Corporate Law Group,Adv. For Andaman & Nicobar Admn. Mr.K.V.Jagdishvaran, Adv. Ms. G. Indira,Adv. Ms. Hemantika Wahi,Adv. Ms.Jesal Wahi, Adv. Ms. Vinakshi Kadan, Adv. For U.P. Mr.Gaurav Bhatia, AAG Ms. Pragati Neekhra,Adv. Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, Adv. Mr. Garvesh Kabra, Adv. Mr.Samir Ali Khan, Adv. Mr. Utkarsh Jaiswal, Adv. Mr. Vijay Yadav, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Srivastava, Adv. For H.P. Mr. Suryanaryana Singh, Addl. Adv. Gen. Ms. Pragati Neekhra, Adv. Mr. Karanveer Jindal, Adv.

Applicant	Ms.Madhavi Divan, Adv.<br>Mr.Manan Verma, Adv.<br>Ms. Ranjeeta Rohtagi,Adv.<br>Ms. Jaya Khanna, Adv.
For Maharashtra	Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar,Adv.<br>Mr. Arpit Rai, Adv.
	Ms.Rachana Srivastava, Adv.<br>Mr.Ashutosh Kr.Sharma, Adv.
For Punjab	Mr. V. Madhukar, AAG<br>Ms. Anvita Cowshish, Adv.<br>Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, Adv.<br>Mr.Renjith B.Marar, Adv.<br>Ms.Lakshmi N.Kaimal, Adv.<br>Mr. Kumar Gaurav, Adv.<br>Ms.Anu Dixit Kaushik, Adv.
For Rajasthan	Mr.S.S.Shamshery, AAG<br>Mr.Amit Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr.Sandeep Singh, Adv.<br>Ms.Ruchi Kohli, Adv.
For Kerala	Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr.Ramesh Babu, M.R.,Adv.<br>Ms. Swati Setia, Adv.<br>Mr. Jogy Scaria, Adv.<br>Mr. Reegan, Adv.
For H.P.	Mr.Suryanarayana Singh, AAG<br>Ms.Pragati Neekhra, Adv.<br>Mr.Ram Sankar, Adv.<br>Mr.G.Ananda Selvam, Adv.<br>Mr.K.Mayil Samy, Adv.<br>Mr. Y. Lokesh, Adv.<br>Mr.R.V.Kameshwaran,Adv.<br>Mr. Mohit D. Ram, Adv.<br>Mr. Sushil Karanjkar, Adv.<br>Mr. Ratan Wasekar, Adv.<br>Mr. K.N. Rai, Adv.<br>Mr. Yatendra Sharma, Adv.
	Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv.

For Haryana Mr. Anil Grover, AAG Mr. Sanjay Visen, Adv. Mr. M.K. Thakur, Adv. Ms. Mala Dubey, Adv. Mr. Kamal Mohan Gupta, Adv. For Nagaland Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Edward Belho, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. For Telangana Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Adv. Mr. Krishna Kumar Singh, Adv.

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

Shri Rakesh Dwivedi, learned senior counsel resumed his submissions at 11.15 a.m. and on his legs when the Court rose for the day.

The matter(s) remained part-heard.

[ Charanjeet Kaur ] [ Vinod Kulvi ] A.R.-cum-P.S. Asstt. Registrar

[ G.V. Ramana ] [ Neetu Khajuria ] A.R.-cum-P.S. Sr. P.A.