Tamil Nadu Centre For Public Interest Litigation, Rep. By K. K. Ramesh Managing Trustee vs. The Union Of India, Rep. By Its Principal Secretary To Prime Minister Principal Secretary To Prime Minister

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SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

<pre>Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s). 906/2016</pre>

VIVEK NARAYAN SHARMA

Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA

<pre>Respondent(s)</pre>

(FOR DIRECTIONS )
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IA No. 48018/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 126224/2017 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 27518/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 64447/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 133716/2020 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 18496/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 123912/2017 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 130102/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 85341/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 77219/2017 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 54299/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 73106/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 33090/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 66975/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 122727/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 128775/2017 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 65961/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 2/2016 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON IA No. 11874/2018 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON IA No. 4/2016 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON IA No. 12/2017 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON IA No. 24060/2019 - RECOVERY OF THE AMOUNT IA No. 8/2017 - STAY APPLICATION) WITH W.P.(C) No. 683/2020 (IA No. 62679/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 62678/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. IA No. 113254/2020 - MODIFICATION OF COURT ORDER) W.P.(C) No. 1018/2019 (IA No. 129530/2021 - STAY APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No. 260/2017 (IA No. 141671/2017 - AMENDMENT OF THE PETITION IA No. 138613/2018 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION IA No. 138618/2018 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. IA No. 1/2017 - GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF) T.P.(C) No. 626/2017 (IA No. 29559/2018 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION) T.P.(C) No. 607/2017 (IA No. 29570/2018 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION) T.P.(C) No. 588/2017 (IA No. 29509/2018 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION) T.P.(C) No. 585/2017 (IA No. 29554/2018 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION) W.P.(C) Nos. 40/2017, 47/2017 and 41/2017

T.P.(C) No. 1958-1967/2016 (IA No. 11/2016 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION IA No. 1/2016 - STAY APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No. 1011/2016 SLP(C) No. 36757/2016 T.P.(C) No. 638/2017 (IA No. 29562/2018 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION) T.C.(C) No. 9/2017 W.P.(C) No. 568/2018 (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.53391/2018-EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) W.P.(C) No. 341/2018 (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.44908/2018-APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS) W.P.(C) No. 193/2018 (IA No. 32889/2018 - GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF) W.P.(C) No. 316/2018 (FOR ADMISSION) MA 1552/2018 in W.P.(C) No. 626/2017 (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.45727/2018-APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONSALONGWITH THE PAPER BOOKS OF W.P.(C)NO.124/2017] IA No. 45727/2018 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS) T.P.(C) No. 47-67/2017 (IA No. 1/2017 - STAY APPLICATION) SLP(C) No. 14131/2017 W.P.(C) Nos.908/2016, 913/2016, 916/2016, 1026/2016, 943/2016 W.P.(Crl.) No. 162/2016 W.P.(C) No. 951/2016, 929/2016, 930/2016 W.P.(C) No. 954/2016 (ONLY I A NO 3/2017 FOR WITHDRAWAL OF WRIT PETITION TO BE LISTED BEFORE HON'BLE CHAMBER JUDGE) W.P.(C) Nos. 944/201, 971/2016 T.P.(C) No. 1982-1996/2016 (XVI-A) (IA No. 1/2016 - STAY APPLICATION) W.P.(C) Nos. 952/2016, 953/2016, 958/2016 and 957/2016 T.P.(C) No. 2018-2022/2016 (IA No. 1/2016 - EX-PARTE STAY)

SLP(C) No. 35356/2016 W.P.(C) No. 972/2016 T.P.(C) No. 2030-2038/2016 (service is not complete IA No. 1/2016 - STAY APPLICATION) W.P.(C) Nos.978/2016, 1025/2016 SLP(C) No. 35805/2016 W.P.(C) Nos.997/2016, 1008/2016, 1010/2016, 1009/2016, 996/2016, 1006/2016 T.P.(C) No. 582/2017 (IA No. 29547/2018 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION) T.P.(C) No. 659/2017 (IA No. 29544/2018 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION IA No. 2/2017 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. IA No. 1/2017 - STAY APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No. 223/2017 SLP(C) No. 14272/2017 (IA No. 1/2017 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) SLP(C) No. 14216/2017 (IA No. 1/2017 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) W.P.(C) No. 389/2018 Date : 12-10-2022 These matters were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. ABDUL NAZEER HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B.R. GAVAI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.S. BOPANNA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE B.V. NAGARATHNA For the parties : Mr. Vivek Narayan Sharma, In-person Mr. Ajay Singh,Adv. Ms. Mahima Bhardwaj,Adv. Mr. Abhinav Raghav,Adv. Mr. Adhiraj Wadhera,Adv. Mr. Shubham Awasthi,Adv. Mr. Laksha Bhavnavi, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Kumar Jha,Adv. Mr. Ajay Singh, Adv.

Mr. Manish Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Ram Kumar, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv. Mr. H. S. Parihar, AOR Ms. Ikshita Parihar, Adv. Mr. R.Venkataramani,Ld. AG Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. N.Venkataraman,ASG Mr. K.M. Nataraj, ASG Mr. M.K.Maroria, AOR Mr. Sudarshan K.,Adv. Mr. Shailesh Madiyal,Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Adit Khorana,Adv. Mr. Udai Khanna,Adv. Mr. Nakul Chengappa K.K., Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal,Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR Mr. Rakesh Kr. Khanna, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anant Bbushan, Adv. Mr. P. Chidambaram, Sr. Adv. Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, AOR Mr. Talha Abdul Rahman,Adv. Mr. Gaurav Ghosh,Adv. Mr. Prateek Chadha, Adv. Mr. Harsh Vardhan Kediya, Adv. Mr. M.Shaz Khan,Adv. Mr. Vrishank Singhania,Adv. Ms. Radhika D.,Adv. Ms. Rani Mishra, Adv. Mr. Deepak Nargolkar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Syed Ahmed Saud, Adv. Mr. Daanish Ahmed Syed, Adv. Mr. Md. Parvez Dabas, Adv. Mr. Uzmi Jameel Husain, adv. Mr. Aqib Baig, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Shahib, Adv. For M/S. Shakil Ahmad Syed, AOR Mr. P.V. Surendranath, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mr. Sawan Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mr. Subhash Chandran K.R., Adv. Ms. Krishna L.R., Adv. Mr. K. Paul, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rishi Matoliya, AOR Mr. H.D. Thanvi, Adv. Ms. Sumati Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kshitij B., Adv. Mr. Nikhil Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, AOR Mr. Jatin Bhardwaj,Adv. Mr. N. Subramaniyan, Adv. Ms. Sugandha Yadav, Adv. Ms. Sanam Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Anshula Laroiya, Adv. Mr. Adith Deshmukh, Adv. Ms. Neha Rathi,Adv. Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, AOR Mr. Sudiep Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Jatin Bhardwaj,Adv. Ms. Neha Rathi,Adv. Mr. Manohar Lal Sharma, Adv. (In-person) Ms. Suman, Adv. Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, AOR Mr. M. T. George, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Verma, Adv. Mr. Rajat Mathew, Adv. Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR Mr. P. V. Dinesh, AOR Mr. Rahul Raj Mishra, Adv. Mr. Bineesh K. Adv. Mr. Ashwini Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Sudhir, Adv. Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Aakash Nandolia, Adv. Ms. Sagun Srivastava, Adv.

Mr. M.P. Sahay, AOR Mr. Braj Kishore Mishra, AOR Ms. Awantika, Adv. Mr. Sachin Kharb, Adv. Ms. Aparna Jha, Adv. Mr. T. R. B. Sivakumar, AOR Ms. Muskan Tibrewala, Adv. Mr. Amanpreet Singh, Adv. Mr. Narender Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Thampan Thomas, adv. Mr. K. V. Mohan, AOR Ms. Tessy Varghese, Adv. Mr. K.V. Balakrishnan, Adv. Mr. K. Vinosh, Adv. Mr. Saju Jacob, Adv. Ms. Satwinder Kaur, Adv. Mr. Nishant Menon, Adv. Mr. Deepesh, Adv. Mr. Sumit Sharma, AOR Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, AOR Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR Mr. Vijay K. Jain, AOR Mr. Asad Alvi, Adv. Mr. D. Vidyanandan, Adv. Ms. Sasa A.K. Patel, Adv. Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Ms. Manjula Gupta, AOR Mr. Prem Sunder Jha, Adv. Mr. Pranav Raina, Adv. Mr. Manashwy Jha, Adv. Mr. V. K. Biju, AOR Ms. Ria Sachthey, Adv. Mr. Chetanya Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhay Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Amlendu Kumar Akhilesh Kumar Jha, Adv. Dr. Ranjeet Bharti, Adv. Ms. Rubina Jawed, Adv. Mr. Parthsarathi M. Saraf, Adv. Mr. Subash Chandran, Adv. Mr. N.P. Rakesh Panikar, Adv.. Ms. Kavitha K.T., Adv. Mr. Dhaval Deshpande, Adv. Mr. Tapan Thatte, Adv.

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	Ms. Aparna Jha, AOR
	Mr. Arjun Singh Bhati, Adv.<br>Ms. Tasmiya Taleha, Adv.<br>Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR
	Mr. Ankur Prakash, AOR
	Mr. Jatinder Pal Singh, AOR<br>Ms. Reema Chauhan, Adv.
	Mr. Shariq Ahmed, Adv.<br>Mr. Tariq Ahmed, Adv.<br>Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR
	Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR
	Mr. Ajit Sharma, AOR
	Mr. Vrishank Singhania,Adv.
	Mr. Varun Punia, AOR
	Mr. Ajay Vikram Singh, AOR<br>Ms. Priyanka Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Sharjeel Ahmad, Adv.<br>Mr. Sambhav Shekhar, Adv.
	Mr. Joel, AOR<br>Mr. Rajesh Ranjan,<br>Adv.<br>Mr. A.Shankar Rustogi,<br>Adv.
	Mr. Shiv Kant Arora, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashwani Kumar Dubey, AOR
	Mr. C.R.Jaya Sukin,Adv.<br>Ms. Divya Mishra,Adv.<br>Mr. Rahul Kumar,Adv.<br>Ms. Manisha,Adv.<br>Mr. Sudhir Singh,Adv.<br>Mr. Rahul Sharma,Adv.<br>Mr. Akhileshwar Jha,Adv.
	Mr. Roshan Chapagain,Adv.<br>Ms. Mamta Shrivastava,Adv.<br>Mr. Satheesh K.R.,Adv.<br>Ms. Baby Devi Bonia,Adv.<br>Ms. Suresh Kumari,Adv.<br>Mr. Dharam Pal Saini,Adv.<br>Ms. Prerna Singh,Adv.<br>Ms. Smita Pandey, Adv.
For Intervenors	Mr. B.K. Mishra, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv.

Ms. Yamini Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Ms. Mirdula Singh, Adv. Ms. Madhumita Mishra, Adv. Mr. Satya Singh Saini, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar, AOR Mr. Dilip Annasaheb Taur, AOR Mrs. Niranjana Singh, AOR Mr. Avishkar Singhvi, Adv. Ms. Pratiksha Sharma,AOR Mr. Ankit Acharya, Adv. Mr. Mueed Shah, Adv. Mr. Vivek Kumar, Adv. Mr. Purvish Jitendra Malkan, AOR Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, AOR Dr. Sumit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Keshav Baheti, Adv. Ms. Mrigna Shekhar, Adv. Ms. Ayushi Singh, Adv. Mr. Rohit K. Singh, AOR Mr. A. N. Arora, AOR Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., AOR Ms. Manisha Singh, Adv. Ms. Nisha Sharma, Adv. Ms. Jagriti Bharti, Adv. Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Respondent-in-person Mr. P. A. Noor Muhamed, AOR Mr. M. P. Vinod, AOR Mr. Satish Kumar, AOR Mr. Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, AOR Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR Mr. Satyajit A. Desai, Adv.

Mr. Satya Kam Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anagha S. Desai, AOR Mr. Gajanan N. Tirthkar, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Mutyalwar, Adv. Mr. Deb Deepa Mazumdar, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Gautam, Adv. Mr. Shivaji M.Jadhav,Adv. Mr. Brij Kishor Sah,Adv. Ms. Astha Deep,Adv. Mr. Aditya S.Jadhav,Adv. Mr. Adarsh Pandey,Adv. Ms. Shivani Rautela,Adv. Ms. Apurva,Adv. For M/S. S.M. Jadhav And Company, AOR Mr. V. K. Sidharthan, AOR Mr. G. Prakash, AOR Mr. Romy Chacko, AOR Mr. M. Y. Deshmukh, AOR Mr. Adweetiya Sharma, Adv. Ms. Manjeet Kirpal, Adv. Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Mr. Abdulla Naseeh V.T., Adv. Ms. Meena K. Poulose, Adv. Mr. G. Ananda Selvam, Adv. Mr. Mayil Samy K. Adv. Mr. Anil Sanchit Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. Manikandan A., Adv. Mr. S.J. Amith, Adv. Mr. T. R. B. Sivakumar, AOR Mr. Nischal Kumar Neeraj, AOR Mr. Hars Vardhan, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Shrivastava AOR Mr. Ujjwal Tandon, Adv. Mr. Adan Siddiqui, Adv. Mr. Rahul Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shivang Rawat, Adv. Ms. Radhika Jalan, Adv. Mr. Santosh Mishra, AOR Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR

Mr. Dhruv Gautam, Adv.

Ms. Manisha Ambwani, AOR Mr. Santi Ranjan Das, Adv. Mr. Anindo Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR Mr. Harshad V. Hameed, AOR Mr. Dileep Poolakkot, Adv. Ms. Ashly Harshad, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari,Adv. Mr. Aaditya A.Pande, AOR Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh,Adv. Ms. Gunjan Mangla,Adv. Mr. Bharat Bagla,Adv. Mr. Mahfooz A.Nazki, AOR Mr. Polanki Gowtham,Adv. Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef,Adv. Mr. T.Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy,Adv. Mr. K.V.Girish Chowdary,Adv. Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee,Adv. Ms. Niti Richhariya,Adv. Mr. S.L.Gupta,Adv. Mr. Brij Mohan Rastogi, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Sharma, Adv. Ms. Gunjan Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kuldeep Singh Tomar, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Srivastava,Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Amit Khemka, Adv. Mr. Rishi Sehgal, AOR Mr. Sandeep Dash, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Ravinder Singh, Adv. Ms. Raveesha Gupta, Adv. Ms. Mantika Haryani, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Shreyas Awasthi, Adv. Ms. Deeksha Agrawal, Adv.

Mr. Alok Shukla, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mr. Nihal Ahmad, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv. Ms. Neena Shukla, Adv. Ms. Prachi Goyal, Adv. Ms. Anu Singla, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal,Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal,Adv. Mr. Nishant Rao,Adv. Ms. Kajal Dalal,Adv. Mr. E.C.Agrawala,AOR

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

Issue notice on the applications for intervention/impleadment.

Let notice be also issued on the matters, if not already issued.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the Union of India and Reserve Bank of India seek time to file comprehensive affidavits.

List on 9th November, 2022.

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