Har Prakash Chandna vs. Unitech Ltd

ITEM NO.301 Court 4 (Video Conferencing) SECTION XVII-A

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

IA 50683/2021 in Civil Appeal No(s). 10856/2016

BHUPINDER SINGH Appellant(s)

VERSUS

UNITECH LTD. Respondent(s)

(WITH IA No. 50683/2021 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS)

Date : 08-09-2021 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE D.Y. CHANDRACHUD HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.R. SHAH

Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, AOR (A.C.) Ms. Abhipsa Anamika, Adv.

For Appellant(s) Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR

For Respondent(s) Mr. N. Venkataraman, ASG Ms. Anubha Agrawal, AOR

Mr. Parag P. Tripathi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kartik Yadav, Adv. Mr. Parinay Vasandani, Adv. Mr. Manhar Singh Saini, Adv. Ms. Mishika Bajpai, Adv. Mr. Chandra Prakash, Adv. M/s DSK Legal

Mr. Chitranshul Sinha, Adv. Mr. Jaskaran Singh Bhatia, Adv. For M/S. Dua Associates

Ms. Madhavi Divan, ASG Mr. K.M. Nataraj, ASG Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Mr. M.K. Maroria, Adv. Mr. B.V. Balaramdas AOR Mr. A. K. Sharma AOR Mr. Shekhar Vyas, Adv. Ms. Praveena Gautam, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Ms. Suhashini Sen, Adv. Mr. T.A. Khan, Adv.

Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, Adv. Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Adv. Mr. Ayush Puri, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. Mr. Prashant Singh B, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Sughosh Subramanium, Adv. Mr Aniruddha Joshi, Adv. Ms Jasmine Damkewala, AOR Ms Vaishali Sharma, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Chander Trehan, Adv. Ms. Maninder Acharya, Sr. Adv. Ms. Adity Gupta, Adv. Ms Jasmine Damkewala, AOR Ms Vaishali Sharma, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Chander Trehan, Adv. Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR Mr. Anil Grover, Sr AAG Ms. Noopur Singhal, Adv. Mr. Rahul Khurana, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Mr. Amit Sahni, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Sr. Adv. Ms. Pritha Srikumar Iyer, AOR Mr. Naveen Hegde, Adv. Ms. Mansi Binjrajka, Adv. Mr. Divyesh Pratap Singh, AOR Ms. Hima Lawrence, AOR Mr. Akshat Kumar, AOR Mr. D.K. Rustagi, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Jain, Adv. Mr. P.K. Jain, AOR Mr. P.K. Goswami, Adv. Mr. S.P. Singh Rathore, Adv. Ms. Sushmita Bannerjee, Adv. Ms. Mousumi Roy, Adv. Mr. Joydeep Mukherjee, Adv. Ms. Akansha Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR Mr. Ashwani Kumar Dubey, AOR

Respondent-in-person

Mr. Ravindra Kumar, AOR

Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR

Mr. Abhisth Kumar, AOR

Mr. V. K. Monga, AOR

Mr. Atul Kumar, AOR

Mr. B. Ramana Murthy, AOR

Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chaurasia, AOR

Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR

Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR

Mr. Raj Kamal, AOR

Mr. Rajesh Kumar Gautam, AOR Mr. Anant Gautam, Adv. Mr. Nipun Sharma, Adv. Mr. Madhur Tewatia, Adv. Mr. Ravi Solankia, Adv.

Mr. Sonal Jain, AOR

Mr. M. P. Vinod, AOR

Mr. Gaurav Goel, AOR

Mr. Sudhansu Palo, AOR

Mr. Manish Kumar Gupta, AOR

Mr. Vineet Bhagat, AOR Mr. K.G. Bhagat, Adv. Ms. Manju Bhagat, Adv. Ms. Archna Midha, Adv. Mr. Mohit Gulati, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Jain, Adv.

Mr. Aksveer Singh Saggu, Adv.

Ms. Anshula Vijay Kumar Grover, AOR

Ms. Sujata Kurdukar, AOR

Mr. Pranav Kumar, AOR Mr. Sunil Fernandes, AOR Mr. Aakarsh Kamra, AOR Mr. Vipin Kumar Jai, AOR Mr. Sharath Sampath, Adv. Mr. Tarun Mehta, Adv. Mr. Manikya Khanna, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Mohan Parashar, AOR Mr. Pratyaksh Sharma, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Mr. Arvind Gupta, AOR Mr. Utkarsh Sharma, AOR Mr. Himanshu Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Devesh Partap Singh, Adv. Ms. Bano Deswal, Adv. Mr. R. C. Kaushik, AOR Ms. Vibha Mahajan, Adv. Ms. Upasana Nath, AOR Ms. Tara V. Ganju, Adv. Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Mr. Preshit Vilas Surshe, AOR Mr. Vikas Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. P.R. Kovilan Poongkuntran, Adv. Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR Mr. Ritin Rai, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rajshekhar Rao, Sr. Adv. Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Ms. Zehra Khan, Adv. Ms. Kritika Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Mehrotra, Adv. Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv. Mr. Areeb Amanullah, Adv. Ms. Shreya Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Vasudha Jain, Adv. Mr. Mohit Paul, AOR Mr. Mohit Jolly, Adv. Ms. Chand Chopra, Adv. Ms. Sunaina Phul, Adv. Ms. Dipika Jain, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, AOR Dr. Sumit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Tushar Singh, AOR

Mr. Neeraj Kumar, AOR Ms. Priyanjali Singh, AOR Mr. Rahul Rathore, Adv. Ms. Shruti Agarwal, AOR Mr. Deepak M Nargolkar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anant Kumar Vatsya, Adv. Dr. Avinash Poddar, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Sinha, Adv. Mr. Shiv Kumar, Adv. Mr. Devendra Singh, AOR Mr. Anand Sukumar, Adv. Mr. S. Sukumaran, Adv. Mr. Bhupesh Kumar Pathak, Adv. Mrs. Meera Mathur, AOR Mr. Braj Kishore Mishra, AOR Mr. A. Henry, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Mehta, AOR Mr. Anshay Dhatwalia, Adv. Ms. Kumud Nijhawan, Adv. Mr. Ashwani Kumar, AOR Mr. Jappanpreet Hora, Adv. Mr. Prabjot Hora, Adv. Mr. A. Karthik, AOR Mr. Rohit Sharma, Adv. Mr. Rounak Nayak, Adv. Ms. Arju Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Kumar Dushyant Singh, AOR Mr. Shashank Manish, AOR Mr. Manish Shankar Srivastava, Adv Mr. Vivek Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Singh, AOR Ms. Pallavi Singh, Adv. Mr. Dileep Poolakkot, Adv. Mr. Harshad V. Hameed, AOR Mrs. Ashly Harshad, Adv. Ms. Vibha Datta Makhija, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shariq Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Tariq Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Praveen Gaurav, Adv.

Mr. Karan Mamgain, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv. Ms. Nina Gupta, Adv. Ms. Ananya Marwah, Adv. Ms. Ruchika Joshi, Adv. Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR Mr. P.R Ramasesh, Adv. Mr. Sanuj Das, Adv. Mr. Gurudatta Ankolekar AOR Mr. Sandeep Das, AOR Mr. Dushyant Sarna, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, AOR M/S. Karanjawala & Co. Ms. Ruby Singh Ahuja, Adv. Ms. Hancy Maini, Adv. Ms. Kritika Sachdeva, Adv. For M/S. Karanjawala & Co. Mr. Ashish Virmani, AOR Applicant-in-person Mr. Gaurav Sarin, Adv. Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, AOR Mr. Nitin Saluja, AOR Mr. Mudit Gupta, Adv. Ms. Misha Rohatgi Mohta, AOR Mr. Ravi Panwar, AOR Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR Ms. Rashi Bansal, AOR Mr. Aman Raj Gandhi, AOR Mr. Nikilesh Ramachandran, AOR Mr. M.L. Lahoty, Adv. Mr. Paban K. Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anchit Sripat, adv. Mr. Himanshu Shekhar, AOR

Dr. Vinod Kumar Tewari, AOR Mr. Kaustubh Shukla, AOR Mr. Utsav Trivedi, Adv. Mr. Abhinay, AOR Ms. Unnati Vijay, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Samal, Adv. Udit Kishan & Associates Mr. Brijendra Singh, Adv. Mr. Shishir Kr. Saxena, Adv. Mr. R.N. Pareek, Adv. Mr. Jagmohan Pareek, Adv. Mr Deepak Sharma, Adv. Ms. Payal Swarup, Adv. Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR Ms. Shikha Dixit, in-person Ms. Binu Tamta, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Tamta, AOR Mr. Joy Saha, Sr Adv Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania , AOR Mr. Romy Chacko, AOR

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

IA No 50683 of 2021 in Civil Appeal No(s). 10856/2016

• 1 Mr N Venkataraman, Additional Solicitor General, has navigated through his note proposing the appointment of Project Management Consultants. The Court has been apprised that the new Board of Management has constituted two subcommittees:
  • (i) A Sub-Committee to negotiate with the Banks and ARCs; and
  • (ii) A Sub-Committee to negotiate with the Government of Haryana, NOIDA

and Greater NOIDA.

• 2 The principal bone of contention is in regard to the projects assigned to Suraksha ARC. It has been agreed that a meeting would be convened by the Sub-Committee with Suraksha ARC within a period of one week.
• 3 List the application on 30 September 2021 at 3.00 pm before this Bench for further orders.
• 4 A correction in the previous order of this Court dated 25 August 2021 has been requested by Mr Chitranshul Sinha appearing for JM Financial ARC. The previous order refers to certain projects having been assigned to J M Financial ARC. This part of the earlier order is clarified to read that a charge was created in respect of specific lands in favour of J M Financial ARC.

Civil Appeal No 10856 of 2016 and SLP(Crl) Nos 5978-5979 of 2017

• 1 The Enforcement Directorate shall, before the next date of listing, file a status report in a sealed cover indicating the progress in the investigation by the Enforcement Directorate. Likewise, a status report shall also be filed by the investigating officer of Delhi Police.
• 2 Ms Madhavi Divan, Additional Solicitor General appearing for the Enforcement Directorate, and Mr K M Nataraj, Additional Solicitor General appearing for Delhi Police, shall take necessary steps to ensure compliance by the respective agencies.
• 4 List the matters on 30 September 2021 at 3.00 pm before the Special Bench.

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IA No 81660/2021 & 81663/2021

• 1 Upon being mentioned by Mr N Venkataraman, Additional Solicitor General, the applications are taken on board.
• 2 Notice shall also issue to the third to sixth respondents.

AR-CUM-PS COURT MASTER

(SANJAY KUMAR-I) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR)