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

Civil Appeal No(s).10856/2016

BHUPINDER SINGH Appellant(s)

VERSUS

UNITECH LTD. Respondent(s)

(WITH IA-112090/21, IA No. 57580/2021 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 50706/2021 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 50683/2021 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 81663/2021 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 79304/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 57581/2021 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 50704/2021 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 81660/2021 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 5463/2021 - PERMISSION TO PLACE ADDITIONAL FACTS AND GROUNDS)

WITH

SLP(Crl) No. 5978-5979/2017 (II-C)

Date : 06-10-2021 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. N. Venkataraman, ASG Ms. Anubha Agrawal, AOR

Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR

Mr. Vikas Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddhartha Dave, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vishal Gosain, Adv. Mr. Anuroop Chakravarti, Adv. Ms. Neeha Nagpal, Adv. Ms. Deepeika Kalia, Adv Ms. Samten Doma, Adv.

Digitally signed by Sanjay Kumar Date: 2021.10.07 16:57:25 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

• Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv. Mr. Kapish Sethi, Adv.
• Mr. Satwik Mishra, Adv.

Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, AOR

Mr. Vikas Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddhartha Dave, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Vishal Gosain, Adv. Mr. Anuroop Chakravarti, Adv. Ms. Neeha Nagpal, Adv. Mr. Anshuman Srivastava, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Siddhartha Dave, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Anuroop Chakravarti, Adv. Ms. Neeha Nagpal, Adv. Mr. Anshuman Srivastava, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR For Respondent(s) Mr. N. Venkataraman, ASG Ms. Anubha Agrawal, AOR Mr. K.M. Nataraj, ASG. Mr. B.V. Balaram Das, AOR Ms. Suhashini Sen, Adv. Mr. T.A. Khan, Adv. Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Mr. Sihdant Kohli, Adv. Mr. Shekhar Vyas, adv. Ms. Praveena Gautam, Adv. Mr. Sughosh Subramanyam, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Adv. Ms. Madhvi Divan, ASG Mr. Shekhar Vyas, Adv. Mr. Praveena Gautam, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. Mr. Ayush Puri, Adv. Mr. Siddhant Kohli, Adv. Ms. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Prashant Singh B, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. M.K. Maroria, AOR Mr S.C. Dharmadhikari, Sr. Adv. Mr Aniruddha Joshi, Adv. Ms Jasmine Damkewala, AOR Ms Vaishali Sharma, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Chander Trehan, Adv. Ms Maninder Acharya, Sr Adv.

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Ms Adity Gupta, Adv. Ms Jasmine Damkewala, AOR Ms Vaishali Sharma, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Chander Trehan, Adv. Mr. Parag Tripathi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kartik Yadav, Adv. Mr. Parinay Vasandani, Adv. Mr. Manhar Singh Saini, Adv. Mr. Mishika Bajpai, Adv. Mr. Chandra Prakash, Advocate for M/S. DSK Legal Mr. Rajan Chawla, AOR Mr. Amit Agrawal, AOR Ms. Radhika Yadav, Adv. Mr. Naman Khatwani, Adv. Ms. Asha Tyagi, AOR Mr Vikram Nankani, Sr Adv. Mr Shwetabh Sinha, Adv. Mr. Ujjal Banerjee, AOR Mr Ashish Rao, Adv. Mr Akash Khurana, Adv. Mr. Huzefa Ahmadi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rajesh D.M., Adv. Mr. Aman Gandhi, AOR Mr. Abhishek Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sanpreet Singh Ajmani, Adv. Mr. Varun Mishra, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Dubey, 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. Ms. V. Mohana, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sriram Parakkat, AOR Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Sr. Adv. Ms. Pritha Srikumar Iyer, AOR Mr. Naveen Hegde, Adv. Ms. Mansi Binjrajka, Adv. Mr. Ajay Jain, Adv.

Mr. Jinendra Jain, AOR Ms. Mitika Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Tannu, Adv. Mr. Maitreyee Jagat Joshi, Adv. Mr. Divyesh Pratap Singh, AOR Ms. Shivangi Singh, Adv. Mr. Vikram Pratap Singh, Adv. Ms. Shailja Yadav, Adv. Mrs. Kirti Renu Mishra, AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Adv. Mr. Akshay C. Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Sumit Kumar, AOR Mr. Sajan Poovayya, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vikram Hegde, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Lakhotia, Adv. Ms. Hima Lawrence, AOR Mr. Pratibhanu Kharolla, Adv. Mr. Sharan Balakrishna, Advocate Mr. Siddharth Batra, AOR Ms. Shivani Chawla, Adv. Ms. Garima Prashad, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nishit Agrawal, AOR Mr. Harsh Mishra, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Agrawal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nishit Agrawal, AOR Mr. Harsh Mishra, Adv. 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. Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv. Ms. Ritu Dubey, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sagar, AOR Mr. Pawan Narang, Adv. Mr. Lokesh Bhola, Adv. Mr. Archit Upadhayay, AOR

Ms. Aswathi M.K., AOR Mr. Rajat Sehgal, AOR Mr. Ujjwal A. Rana, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Mehta, Adv. M/S. Gagrat and Co Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjay Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Sumit Nagpal, Adv. Ms. Niharika Sharma, Adv. Ms. Akansha Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR Ms. Shagun Matta, AOR Ms. Shobha Gupta, AOR Mr. Rahul Garg, Adv. Mr. Nishant Bahuguna, Adv. Ms. Medha Garg, Adv. Mr. Ashwani Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. Pankaj Dubey, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Balian, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, Adv. Mr. Chandra Shekhar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, AOR Respondent-in-person Mr. Ravindra Kumar, AOR Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Ms. Pritha Srikumar, AOR Mr. Brijesh Kumar Tamber, AOR Ms. Deepika Raghav, Adv. Mr. Gyan Prakash Srivastava, AOR Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR Mr. Ravindra Bana, AOR Mr. Siddhartha Jha, AOR

Mr. Abhisth Kumar, AOR Mr. V. K. Monga, AOR Ms. Gouri Monga, Adv. M/S. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Mr. Gagan Gupta, AOR Mr. Soumya Dutta, AOR Mr. Satyam Reddy, Sr. Adv. Mr. A. Radhakrishnan, AOR Ms. Ruma Sarasani , Adv. Ms. Ritu Bhardwaj, Adv. Ms. Astha Deep, Adv. Mr. Atul Kumar, AOR Mr. Nikunj Dayal, AOR Mr. Nikhil Swami, AOR Ms. Divya Swami, Adv. Mr. Vivek Gupta, AOR Mr. Arjun Singh Bhati, AOR Mr. B. Ramana Murthy, AOR M/S. Kmnp Law Aor, AOR Mr. Omprakash Ajitsingh Parihar, AOR Mr. Abhijeet Shah, Adv. Mr. Apurv S, Adv. Mr. Dushyant Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Yudhvir Dalal, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, AOR Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chaurasia, AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Sureshan P., AOR Mr. Utkarsh Singh, Advocate Mr. Vishnu Sharma, Advocate Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, AOR Mr. Himanshu S Sinha, Adv. Mr. Bhuwan Dhoopar, Adv. Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, AOR

Ms. Varuna Bhanrale, Advocate Mr. Sumit Nagpal, Advocate Mrs. B. Sunita Rao, AOR Mr. Vikrant Pachnanda, AOR Mr. Mukul Katyal, Adv. Mr. Sukant Vikram, AOR Mr. Abhay Kumar, AOR Mr. Vijay Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kumar Milind, Adv. Mr. Shagun Ruhil, Adv. Mr. Abhay Kumar, ADV. Mr. Sriharsh Nahush Bundela, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Mishra, Adv. Mr. Kumar Milind, Adv. Mr. Shagun Ruhil, Adv. Mr. Vishal Nautiyal, Adv. Mr. M. P. Devanath, AOR Ms. Madhurima Tatia, AOR Mr. Vivek Narayan Sharma, AOR Mr. S.Y. Usmani, Adv. Mr. M.S. Yadav, Adv. Mr. Rishi Kumar, Adv. Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, AOR Dr. Harish Uppal, Adv. Mr. Tileshwar Prasad, Adv. Mr. Naresh Aditya Madhav, Adv. Mr Vikas Mehta AOR Mr. Bhaskar Nayak, Adv. Mr. Kushal Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Vijay Kumar, AOR Mr. Ashwani Garg, Adv. Mr. Abdulla Naseeh V.T., Adv. Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Mr. Vivek Jain, AOR Mr. Roopansh Purohit, AOR Mr. Somanatha Padhan, AOR

Mr. S. R. Setia, AOR Mr. Sriram P., AOR Mr. Venkateswara Rao Anumolu, AOR Mr. Anurag Jain, Adv. Mr. Vijay Babu, Adv. Mr. T.N. Singh, AOR Mr. Vikas Singh, Adv. Mr. Sham Chand Tanwar, Adv. Mr. Rajshree Singh, Adv. Ms. Manjula Gupta, AOR M/S. Av Global Chambers, AOR Ms. Rohini Prasad, AOR Mr. Raj Kamal, AOR Mr. Rajesh Kumar Gautam, AOR Mr. Anant Gautam, Adv. Mr. Nipun Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ravi Solanki, Adv. Mr. Madhur Tewatia, Adv. Mr. Ravi Solankia, Adv. Mr. Sonal Jain, AOR Mr. Pankaj Jain, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar Jain, Adv. Mr. Amit Kasera, Adv. Mrs. Meenakshi Jain, Adv. Mr. Bijoy Kumar Jain, AOR Mr. R.K. Pandey, Adv. Mr. Atul Sharma, Adv. Ms. Arveena Sharma, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Agarwal, AOR Mr. M. P. Vinod, AOR Mr. Narender Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Gaurav Goel, AOR Mr. Arjun Harkauli, AOR Mr. Anirudh Sharma, AOR Mr. Vivek Singh, AOR

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Mr. Sudhansu Palo, AOR Mr. Jeetender Gupta, AOR Mr. Praveen Agrawal, AOR Mr. Prithvi Pal, AOR Ms. Charu Ambwani, AOR Ms Swarupama Chaturvedi, AOR Mr. Manish Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Umang Shankar, AOR Mr. Vineet Bhagat, AOR Mr. K. G. Bhagat, Advocate Ms. Manju Bhagat, Advocate Ms. Archna Midha, Advocate Mr. Mohit Gulati, Advocate Mr. Jatin Zaveri, AOR Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR Ms. Anshula Vijay Kumar Grover, AOR Mr. Kailash Pandey, Adv. Mr. Ranjeet Singh, Adv. Mr. Gaichangpou Gangmei, AOR Mr. S.Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Ms. Sweena Nair, Adv. Mr. Roshan Santhalia, AOR Ms. Pallavi Tayal, AOR Mr. Ritesh Khara, Adv. Mr. Akhilesh Adv Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR Ms. Urvashi Sharma, Adv. Mr. Vipin Kumar, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Jain, Adv. Mr. Gopal Singh Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Shubhankar Jha, Adv. Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR Ms. Urvashi Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sujata Kurdukar, AOR

Mr. Ranjit Kumar Sharma, AOR Ms. Preeti Singh AOR Mr. Sunklan Porwal, Adv Ms. Manorma Masih, Adv Ms. Saumya Dwivedi, Adv Mr. Shubham Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Ajay Gupta, AOR Mr. Nishant Bishnoi, Adv. Ms. Srishti Prabhakar, Adv. Mr. Pranav Kumar, AOR Mr. D. Abhinav Rao, AOR Ms. Bharti Tyagi, AOR Mr. Siddhant Sharma, Adv. Mr. Karan Bharihoke, AOR Mr. Sunil Fernandes, AOR Mr. Amit Pawan, AOR Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Mr. Aakarsh Kamra, AOR Mr. Kumar Sudeep, Adv. Mr. Somesh Chandra Jha, AOR Mrs. Rachna Gupta, AOR Mr. Vipin Kumar Jai, AOR Mr. P. N. Puri, AOR Mr. Sandeep Bajaj, Advocate Ms. Nidhi Mohan Parashar, AOR Ms. Aakanksha Nehra, Advocate Mr. Siddhartha Shukla, Advocate Mr. Sharath Sampath, Advocate Mr. Tarun Mehta, Advocate Mr. Manikya Khanna, Advocate Ms. Nidhi Mohan Parashar, AOR Mr. Pratyaksh Sharma, Advocate Mr. Aditya Krishna, Advocate Mr. Chandan Kumar, AOR

Mr. R. K. Pandey, Adv. Mr. Atul Sharma, AOR Mr. Arvind Gupta, AOR Mr. Rabindra Tiwary, Adv. Mr. Kumar Law, Adv. Mr. Vipin Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vivek Bhojrajka, Adv. Mr. Utkarsh Sharma, AOR Mr. Himanshu Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Devesh Partap Singh, Adv. Ms. Bano Deswal, Adv. Mr. R. C. Kaushik, AOR Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. Arun Adlakha, Adv. Mr. Omkar Prasad, Adv. Mr. Sunil Rai, Adv. Ms. Vibha Mahajan, Adv. Ms. Upasana Nath, AOR Mr. Chitranshul Sinha, Adv. Mr. Anil Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Jaskaran Singh Bhatia, Adv. For M/S. Dua Associates Ms. Tara V. Ganju, Adv. Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR M/S. Hingorani & Associates Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, AOR Mr. Preshit Vilas Surshe, AOR Mr. P.R. Kovilan Poongkuntran, Adv. Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR Mr. O. P. Bhadani, 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.

Mr. 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. Kunal Tandon, Adv Mr. Surendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Tushar Singh, AOR Ms. Pankhuri, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Chawla, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Arif, Adv. Mr. Akhilesh Yadav, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kumar, AOR Ms. Priyanjali Singh, AOR Mr. Rahul Rathore, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chaurasia, AOR Mr. Saurabh Chaudhary, 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. Vinod Kumar, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Yadav, Adv. Mr. Ahanthem Henry, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Mehta, AOR Mr. Anshay Dhatwalia, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Mohan Nair, 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 Ms. Nidhi Sahay, Adv. Mr. Shashi Bhushan P Adganokar, AOR Mr. Vipin Kumar Jai, 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 Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv. Ms. Nina Gupta, Adv. Ms. Ananya Marwah, Adv. Ms. Ruchika Joshi, Adv. Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR Mr. Mayank Grover, Adv. Ms. Gurleen Kaur, Adv. Mr. Jamnesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Shekhar, AOR Mr. Manish Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Rajesh Kumar-1, AOR Mr. Ravi Kumar Tomar, AOR Mr. P.R Ramasesh, Adv. Mr. Sanuj Das, Adv. Mr. Gurudatta Ankolekar AOR

Mr. Utkarsh Sharma, AOR Mr. Suchit Mohanty, Adv. Ms. Vandana Mohanty, Adv. Mr. Dipesh Sinha, AOR Mr. Rituraj Biswas, AOR Mr. Rituraj Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Das, AOR Mr. Dushyant Sarna, Adv. Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, AOR Mr. Avinash B. Amarnath, AOR Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, Adv. Ms. Abhilasha Bharti, Adv. Mr. Sushant Dogra, Adv. Mr. Avinash Sharma, AOR Gp. Capt. Karan Singh Bhati, AOR Mr. Pushpraj Singh, Advocate Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, AOR Mr. Ashish Kamat, Adv. Mr. Ajay Vazirani, Adv. Mr. Debmalya Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Ameya Deosthale, Adv. Mr. Kartik Bhatnagar, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv. Mr. Vardaan Wanchoo, Adv. Ms. Sharanya Mahimtura, Adv. Ms. Astha Prasad, Adv. For M/S. Karanjawala & Co. Ms. Ruby Singh Ahuja, Adv. Ms. Hancy Maini, Adv. Ms. Kritika Sachdeva, Adv. For M/S. Karanjawala & Co. Ms. Kumud Lata Das, AOR Ms. Anita Pandey, Adv. Mr. Ravi Agrawal, Adv. Mr. K. K. Mohan, AOR Mrs. Gargi Khanna, AOR

Mr. Ashish Virmani, AOR Mr. Rakesh Mishra, AOR Mr. Amit Upreti, Adv. Mr. Alok Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Satyam Pandey, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Rakhi Ray, AOR Mr. Rajesh Singh, AOR Mr. Rajesh Kumar, AOR Applicant-in-person Mr. S. K. Verma, AOR Mr. Gaurav Sarin, Adv. Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, AOR Mr. Nitin Saluja, AOR Mr. Yakesh Anand, Adv. Ms. Sonam Anand, Adv. Ms. Deepshika Sansanwal, Adv. Mr. Santhosh Krishnan, AOR Mr. Sanveer Mehlwal, Adv. Mr. Dhiraj Kumar, Adv. Ms. Geetanjali Mehlwal, Adv. Ms. Kamakshi S. Mehlwal, AOR Mr. Sanjay Jain, AOR Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, AOR Mr. Sunder Khatri, Adv. Mrs. Shital Khatri, Adv. Ms. Priya Kashyap, Adv. Ms. Vandana Surana, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Goyal AOR Mr. S. Rajappa, AOR Mr. T. Mahipal, AOR Mr. Tarun Gupta, AOR Mr. Vikram Singh, AOR

Mr. Kaushik Poddar, AOR Ms. Divya Roy, AOR Mr. Aditya Singh, AOR Mr. Preshit Vilas Surshe, AOR Mr. Anupam Lal Das, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nakul Mohta, Adv. Ms. Misha Rohatgi Mohta, AOR Mr. Devansh Srivastava, Adv. Mr. P. S. Sudheer, AOR Ms. Filza Moonis, AOR Mr. Chandra Bhushan Prasad, AOR Mr. Ilin Saraswat, Adv. Ms. Swati Jain, Adv. Ms. Ilma Saifi, Adv. Ms. Asmita Kumar, Adv. Mr. M. M. Kashyap, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Abhishek Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Ravi Panwar, AOR Mr. Jay Kishor Singh, AOR Mr. M. R. Shamshad, AOR Mr. Rajeev Singh, AOR Mr. Sanjay Parikh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Charu Mathur, AOR Mr. Siddharth, AOR Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Birendra Kumar Mishra, AOR Mr. Abhinav Shrivastava, AOR

Ms. Jaikriti S. Jadeja, AOR Ms. Rashi Bansal, AOR M/S. Devasa & Co. Mr. Aman Raj Gandhi, AOR Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Mr. Mayank Goel, AOR Ms. Harsh Lata, AOR Mr. R Shubham Seth, Adv. Mr. Nikilesh Ramachandran, AOR Mr. Gopal Jha, AOR Mr. Akshat Shrivastava, AOR Mr. Shashibhushan P. Adgaonkar, AOR Mr. Amit Kumar, AOR Mr. Kedar Nath Tripathy, AOR Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR Col. Pahlad Singh Sharma, AOR Mr. Ajit Sharma, AOR Col Sushil Kumar Sharma, Adv. Ms. Mridula Ray Bharadwaj, 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. Awanish Kumar, AOR Mr. Aldanish Rein, AOR Mr. Kaustubh Anshuraj, AOR Mr. Krishna Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Ashwarya Sinha, AOR Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Partha Sil, AOR Mr. Tavish B. Prasad, Adv. Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR Mr. Shantanu Krishna, AOR Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, AOR Mr. Ayush Sharma, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Kumar, AOR Mr. Aneesh Mittal, AOR Mr. Darpan KM, Adv. Ms. Amrita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Rajat Jonathan Shaw, Adv. Ms. Hetu Arora Sethi, AOR Mr. Pratap Shanker, Adv. Ms. Nupur Prasad, Adv. Mr. Ankit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Swetank Shantanu, AOR Mr. Utsav Trivedi, Advocate Mr. Abhinay, Advocate on Record Mr. Milinda Sharma, Advocate Ms. Unnati Vijay, Advocate Ms. Shivani Bhushan, Advocate Ms. Aishwarya Samal, Advocate Mr. Arup Banerjee, AOR Mr. Sanjeev Sharma, Adv. Ms. Eshna Kumar, Adv. Mr. Udit Gupta, Adv. Mr. Anup Jain, Adv. For Udit Kishan & Associates Mr. Brijendra Singh, Adv. Mr. Shishir Kr. Saxena, Adv. Mr. P.N. Pareek, Adv. Mr. Jagmohan Pareek, Adv. Mr. Deepak Sharma, Adv. Mr. Jagdamba Singh, Adv. Ms. Payal Swarup, Adv. Archana Sharma, Adv. Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR

Ms. Shikha Dixit, in-person

Ms. Binu Tamta, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Tamta, AOR Mr. Sanjeev Sen, Senior Advocate Mr. Salim Inamdar, Adv Ms. Astha Tyagi, AOR Mr. Joy Saha, Sr. Adv Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania AOR Ms. Rashmi Singhania, Adv Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kamal Mohan Gupta, Adv. Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjay Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Sumit Nagpal, Adv. Ms. Niharika Sharma, Adv. Ms. Akansha Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR Mr. Dhruv Tamta, AOR

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

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

1 The Enquiry Report dated 28 September 2021 submitted by Shri Rakesh Asthana, Commissioner of Police, Delhi is placed on the record. In terms of the contents of paragraph 37 of the Report, we grant permission to conduct a fullfledged criminal investigation against the persons mentioned therein as also against any unknown persons, whose identity may be revealed during the course of investigation, by registering a criminal case. The Commissioner of Police has stated that a criminal case shall be registered in the Crime Branch of Delhi Police under Sections 7, 8 and 12 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 read with Sections 201/120B of the Indian Penal Code 1860. The provisions of law shall be complied with.

• 2 We direct that, in the meantime, the officials of Tihar Jail who have been prima facie found to be complicit in the course of the Enquiry shall be placed under suspension pending further proceedings.
• 3 We further direct the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to respond to the suggestions which are contained in paragraph 38, including 38.1, 38.2, 38.3, of the Report of the Commissioner of Police and take necessary steps immediately in terms of the Report for enhanced prison management.
• 4 Necessary remedial steps shall be taken immediately and an action plan shall be drawn up which shall be placed before the Court for implementing the suggestions and recommendations. This shall be complied with within a period of four weeks. A plan of action shall be submitted to this Court, though the process of compliance shall not be delayed on that ground.
• 5 Apart from the line of action which has been suggested in the Report of the Commissioner of Police, necessary steps may also be taken if any violation of the provisions of the Jail Manual are detected.
• 6 The Commissioner of Police is requested to forward a copy of this Report in a sealed cover to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to facilitate compliance with the directions which have been issued in this order.
• 7 Mr K M Nataraj and Ms Madhavi Divan, Additional Solicitors General, placed before the Court:
  • (i) The interim investigation report dated 16 July 2021 of the Serious Fraud Investigation Office1 of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs;

<span id="page-19-0"></span>(ii) The second status report of the Directorate of Enforcement dated 16 1"SFIO"

August 2021; and

• (iii) The third status report of the Directorate of Enforcement dated 29 September 2021.
• 8 The investigation is under way at present. We have perused the status reports. The investigation shall continue. The Court shall be apprised, on or before the next date of listing, with an up to date status report of the Enforcement Directorate and the SFIO. The interim status report which has been filed by the SFIO shall be shared with the Enforcement Directorate for further action in accordance with law.
• 9 Mr Vikas Singh, Senior Counsel appearing on behalf of the accused Sanjay Chandra and Ajay Chandra, submits that a report of the forensic auditors M/s Grant Thornton may be made available to him so as to enable him to controvert the contents of the report.
• 10 At present, from the status reports which have been filed before this Court, it emerges that the report submitted by the forensic auditors is the subject matter of the investigation which is being conducted by the Enforcement Directorate. Since the matter is at the stage of investigation, it would not be either in accordance with law or precept to provide the underlying material which forms the subject matter of investigation to the accused at the present stage. Disclosure of the information at this stage will derail the investigation and there is a grave danger of dissipation of assets.
• 11 We direct that the proceedings be listed on 10 November 2021 at 3 pm before this Bench so that the Court can be apprised of the further status of the investigation.

12 On the request of Mr Pawanshree Agrawal, amicus curiae, the web portal for permitting the conversion of options of home-buyers from refund to possession shall continue to remain open for a further period of fifteen days. Period for deposit of title deeds shall likewise be extended for a further period of fifteen days.

IA 50683 of 2021 in Civil Appeal No 10856 of 2016, IA 81660 and 81663 of 2021 in Civil Appeal No 10856 of 2016, IA 57580 and 57581 of 2021 in Civil Appeal No 10856 of 2016, IA 50704 and 50706of 2021 in Civil Appeal No 10856 of 2016 with IA Nos 79304 of 2020, IA No 5463 of 2021 and IA No 112090 of 2021

List the applications on 21 October 2021 at 3 pm before this Bench.

AR-CUM-PS COURT MASTER

(SANJAY KUMAR-I) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR)