K. Chandrasekaran vs. Union Of India

APPEARANCE CORRECTED*

ITEM NO.1+37 COURT NO.4 SECTION XI-A (HEARING THROUGH VIDEO CONFERENCING)

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

Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (C) Nos.16721-16722/2019

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 12-10-2018 in WPC No.602/2015, 12-10-2018 in WPC No.13120/2015 passed by the High Court Of Kerala At Ernakulam)

UNION OF INDIA Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

SUNIL KUMAR B. & ORS. Respondent(s)

(I.A. NO. 109137/20 - FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT; and, I.A. NO. 109139/20 - FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT)

WITH

W.P.(C) No.250/2018 (X)

W.P.(C) No.368/2018 (X)

W.P.(C) No.371/2018 (X)

W.P.(C) No.374/2018 (X)

W.P.(C) No.385/2018 (X)

W.P.(C) No.367/2018 (X)

W.P.(C) No.369/2018 (X)

W.P.(C) No.884/2018 (X) (IA No.170508/2019 – FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT; and, IA No.146221/ 2019 – FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT)

W.P.(C) No.874/2018 (X) (IA No.44627/2019 – FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT)

W.P.(C) No.1149/2018 (X) (IA No.117553/2019 – FOR PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES; and, IA No. 144028/2018 – FOR PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) Digitally signed by Dr. Mukesh Nasa Date: 2021.02.09 13:53:53 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

W.P.(C) No.1167/2018 (X)

CONMT.PET.(C) Nos.1917-1918/2018 in C.A. Nos.10013-10014/2016 (XIV-A) (IA No.85695/2019 – FOR DELETING THE NAME OF PETITIONER/RESPONDENT; IA No.147085/2018 – FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.; and, IA No.147082/2018 – FOR PERMISSION TO FILE APPLICATION FOR DIRECTION) W.P.(C) No.1430/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.1433/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.1428/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.390/2019 (X) (IA No.43954/2019 – FOR EX-PARTE STAY) W.P.(C) No.269/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No.875/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No.349/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No.327/2019 (X) (IA No.43329/2019 – FOR EX-PARTE STAY; and IA No.84636/2019 – FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) W.P.(C) No.466/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No.352/2019 (X) (IA No.46449/2019 – FOR STAY APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No.512/2019 (X) (IA No. 92886/2019 – FOR INTERVENTION APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No.511/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No.500/2019 (X) (IA No.62534/2019 – FOR EX-PARTE STAY; IA No.86926/2019 – FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT; and, IA No.86923/2019 – FOR PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) CONMT.PET.(C) Nos.619-620/2019 in C.A. Nos.10013-10014/2016 (XIV-A) (FOR ADMISSION) W.P.(C) No.601/2019 (X) (IA No.73827/2019 – FOR EX-PARTE STAY) R.P.(C) Nos.1430-1431/2019 in SLP(C) Nos.8658-8659/2019 (XI-A) (FOR ADMISSION; IA No.72855/2019 - FOR LISTING REVIEW PETITION IN OPEN COURT; and, IA No. 72854/2019 – FOR PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) W.P.(C) No.1312/2019 (X)

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W.P.(C) No.832/2019 (X) (IA No.98935/2020 – FOR EARLY HEARING APPLICATION) Diary No.22242/2019 (XIV-A) W.P.(C) No.1218/2020 (X) (FOR ADMISSION; and, IA No.107579/2020 – FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) W.P.(C) No.1332/2020 (X) W.P.(C) No.141/2018 (X) (IA No. 26357/2018 – FOR EX-PARTE STAY) W.P.(C) No.233/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.393/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.395/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.69/2018 (X) (IA No. 14965/2018 – FOR EX-PARTE STAY) W.P.(C) No.118/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.380/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.406/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.372/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.360/2018 (X) (FOR ADMISSION) W.P.(C) No.411/2018 (X) (FOR ADMISSION; and, IA No.63451/2018 – FOR APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS) W.P.(C) No.466/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.804/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.594/2018 (X) (IA No.79752/2018 – FOR PERMISSION TO FILE SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF DATES) W.P.(C) No.778/2018 (X) (IA No.69081/2019 – FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT; and, IA No.170449/2018 – FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) Diary No.46219/2019 (XIV).

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Date : 18-01-2021 These petitions were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE UDAY UMESH LALIT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. RAVINDRA BHAT

Counsel for the Parties:

Mr. K.K. Venugopal, Attorney General for India Mr. Sanjay Jain, ASG Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, ASG Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Basava Prabhu S. Patil, Sr. Adv. Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Mr. Abhishek Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Sujata Muni, Adv. Mr. R. Venkataramani, Sr. Adv. Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Vani Vyas, Adv. Mr. Arijit Prasad, Sr. Adv. Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Mr. Ravi Chandra Prakash, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Sachin Datta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rahul Kaushik, AOR Ms. Bhuvneshwari Pathak, Adv. Ms. Shilpi Satyapriya Satyam, Adv. Mr. Jamshed Pesi Cama, Sr. Adv. Mr. Benny P. Thomas, Adv. Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR Mr. Ashok Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhishek Gupta, Adv. Ms. Ikshita Singh, Adv. Mr. Gunnam Venkateswara Rao, AOR Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Pooja Dhar, AOR

Dr. K.P. Kylasanatha Pillay, Sr. Adv. Mr. A. Venayagam Balan, AOR Mr. Anip Sachthey, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aditya Dhawan, Adv. Ms. Anjali Chauhan, Adv. M/s. ARS Associates, AOR* Mr. Y. Rajagopala Rao, AOR Ms. Y. Vismal Rao, Adv. Mr. K. Pramod Kumar, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Chgowdhury, Adv. Ms. Pooja Dhar, AOR Ms. Rashmi Sharma, Adv. Mr. Bahar U. Barqui, Adv. Mr. Ali Safeer Farooqi, Adv. Mr. M.Z. Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Syed Imtiyaz Ali, Adv. Ms. Heena Khan, Adv. Mr. Aftab Ali Khan, AOR Mr. V.N. Koura, Adv. Ms. Aruna Mathu, AOR Mr. Paramjeet Benipal, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. M/s. Arputham Aruna & Co, AOR Mr. Mohit Paul, AOR Mr. Kartik Nayar, Adv. Ms. Sunaina Phul, Adv. Mr. Rishab Kumar, Adv, Mr. Uday Prakash, Adv. Mr. Raghvendra Shukla, Adv. Mr. Ramjee Pandey, AOR Mr. Rajesh Gupta, Adv. Mr. Harpreet Singh, Adv. Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, AOR Mr. Ajay Chandra, Adv. Mr. Pranjal Saran, Adv. Ms. Nandini Gore, Adv. Ms. Tahira Karanjawala, Adv. Ms. Natasha Sahrawat, Ad.v M/s. Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mr. Raghenth Basant, Advocate Ms. Mahamaya Chatterjee, Advocate Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Mr. Ashwin Kumar DS, Adv. Ms. Aditi Dani, Adv. Ms. Surbhi Mehta, AOR

Mr. Roy Abraham, Adv. Ms. Reena Roy, Adv. Mr. Akhil Roy, Adv. Mr. Himinder Lal, AOR Mr. Tabrez Malawat, Adv. Mr. V.K. Shukla, Adv. Mr. Sugam Mishra, Adv. Ms. Swagoti Batchas, Adv. Mr. Satish Kumar, AOR Mr. D.P. Mohanty, Adv. Ms. S. Lakshmi Iyer, Adv. Mr. Ishan Nagar, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Gaur, Adv. M/s. Parekh & Co., AOR Mr. Mohit Rohatgi, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv. Mr. Kaustub Narendran, Adv. Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, AOR Mr. Puneet Taneja, AOR Mr. Adarsh Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Laxmi, Adv. Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Mr. Abhishek Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Vani Vyas, Adv. Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Shashank Shekhar, Adv. Ms. Sheetal Rajput, Adv. Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, AOR Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, AOR Atanu Saikia, Adv. Srija Choudhury Adv. Mr. Anand Varma, AOR Mr. Abhishek Prasad, Adv. Mr. Vardhman Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Lalita Kaushik, AOR Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR Ms. Saksham Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. Rohan Thawani, Adv. Ms. Pooja Dhar, AOR

Ms. Sangeeta Bhart, Adv. Mr. Sushil Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Siddharth, AOR Ms. Manjula Gupta, AOR M/s ARS Associates, AOR Mr. Shashi Bhushan Kumar, AOR Mr. Anil Nag, AOR Ms. Surbhi Mehta, AOR Mr. Somanatha Padhan, AOR Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, AOR Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mr. Siddharth, AOR M/s. Khaitan & Co., AOR Mr. Rajivkumar, AOR Mr. Siddharth Mittal, AOR Mr. Anil Nag, AOR Mr. Preet Pal Singh, AOR Mr. Ajit Pudussery, AOR Mr. Rakesh Mishra, AOR

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

ITEM NO.1 - SLP (C) Nos.16721-16722/2019

These Special Leave Petitions challenge the final judgment and order dated 12.10.2018 passed by the High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam in Writ Petition (C) No.602 of 2015 and Writ Petition (C) No.13120 of 2015.

Special Leave Petition Diary No.9610 of 2019 arising out of the same judgment and order had come up before the Bench of Hon'ble the Chief Justice, Hon'ble Mr. Justice Deepak Gupta and Hon'ble Mr. Justice Sanjiv Khanna, and was dismissed on 01.04.2019. It appears that Review Petition (Civil) Nos.1430-1431 of 2019 arising from said order of dismissal are still pending consideration.

By order dated 12.07.2019, the instant Special Leave Petitions were directed to be listed alongwith Review Petition (Civil) Nos.1430-1431 of 2019 in open Court, by the Bench comprising Hon'ble the Chief Justice, Hon'ble Mr. Justice Deepak Gupta and Hon'ble Mr. Justice Aniruddha Bose.

In the circumstances, since the instant Special Leave Petitions are directed to be listed alongwith Review Petitions, the Registry is directed to take requisite directions from the Hon'ble the Chief Justice of India for listing of these Special Leave Petitions alongwith connected matters before the appropriate Court on 29.01.2021.

ITEM NO.37 – SLP (Civil) Diary No.46219/2019 (XIV).

List this matter after three weeks.

(MUKESH NASA) (PRADEEP KUMAR) COURT MASTER BRANCH OFFICER