M Jayamma vs. Union Of India

ITEM NO.8

COURT NO.4

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Civil Appeal No(s). 4487/2010

UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

Appellant( $s$ )

VERSUS

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Respondent $(s)$

[ONLY IA NO. 40538/2023 IN CA NO. 8390/2011 IS LISTED UNDER THIS ITEM]

WITH C.A. No. 8390/2011 (IA NO. 40538/2023 - APPLICATION FOR WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNDERTAKING)

Date: 04-04-2025 This application was called on for hearing today.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ABHAY S. OKA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE UJJAL BHUYAN

For Appellant(s) :

Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Rishi Agrawala, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Victor Das, Adv. Ms. Shivani Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Manavi Agarwal, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR

• Ms. Nisha Bagchi, Sr. Adv.
• Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR
• Mr. S A Haseeb, Adv.
• Mr. Sughosh Subramanyam, Adv.
• Mr. Anirudh Bhat, Adv.
• Mr. Udai Khanna, Adv.

For Respondent(s) :

Ms. Nisha Bagchi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. S A Haseeb, Adv. Mr. Sughosh Subramanyam, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Bhat, Adv. Mr. Udai Khanna, Adv. Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR Mr. Ankur Mittal, AOR

Mr. Pramod Dayal, AOR Mr. Nikunj Dayal, Adv. M/S. Khaitan & Co., AOR Mr. Abhishek Vikas, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Joshi, AOR Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR

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

IA No. 40538/2023

The applicants are the members of the first appellant-Association. The prayers made in the application are for permitting the applicants to withdraw the undertaking given pursuant to the order of this Court and also to get itself disassociated from the association. The application has been filed in view of the fact that the applicants have availed the benefit of the scheme known as Sabka Vishwas (Legacy Dispute Resolution) Scheme, 2019. As requirement for availing the scheme is of non-pendency of any litigation, we allow the application in terms of prayer clauses (a) and (b) which read thus:

"a) permit the Applicant-Globus Stores Private Limited to withdraw its Affidavit of Undertaking dated 08.11.2011 filed before this Hon'ble Court in Civil Appeal No.8390 of 2011;

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b) permit the Applicant – Globus Stores Private Limited to disassociate itself from the Appellant Association limited to the implications under the captioned Civil Appeal No.8390 of 2011;"

(ANITA MALHOTRA) (AVGV RAMU) AR-CUM-PS COURT MASTER