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

COURT NO.3

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>

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	Date : 02-01-2023 These matters were called on for pronouncement<br>of judgment today.
For Petitioner(s)	Mr. P.Chidambaram,Sr.Adv.<br>Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, AOR<br>Mr. Talha A.Rahman,Adv.<br>Mr. Prateek Chadha,Adv.<br>Mr. Vrishank Singhania,Adv.<br>Ms. Rani Mishra,Adv.<br>Mr. Gaurav Ghosh,Adv.<br>Mr. Harsh Vardhan Kediya,Adv.<br>Mr. M.Shaz Khan,Adv.<br>Ms. Radhika,Adv.<br>Mr. Shyam Divan,Sr.Adv.<br>Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, AOR<br>Mr. Jatin Bhardwaj,Adv.<br>Mr. Sudiep Shrivastava, Adv.<br>Ms. Sanam Tripathi,Adv.<br>Ms. Anshula Laroiya,Adv.<br>Mr. Adith Deshmukh,Adv.<br>Mr. Surendra Kumar,<br>Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. M. T. George, AOR<br>Mrs. Susy Abrahm, Adv.<br>Mr. Johns George, Adv<br>Mr. Viplav Sharma, Petitioner-in-person<br>Mr. Vaibhav Verma,Adv.<br>Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR<br>Ms. Abhivyakti Banerjee,Adv.<br>Mr. Anant Bhushan,Adv.<br>Ms. Shailja Sinha Saraswat,Adv.<br>Mr. Arjav Jain,Adv.<br>Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, AOR

Mr. R. Venkataramani, AG Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. N. Venkataraman, ASG Mr. K.M.Nataraj,ASG Ms. Vijayalakshmi Venkataramani, Adv. Mr. Anandh Venkataramani, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Mehrotra, Adv. Mr. M.K.Maroria, AOR Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Mr. Chandra Prakash,Adv. Ms. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Devashish Bharuka,Adv. Mr. Pratyush Shrivastava,Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sharma,Adv. Mr. Parantap Singh,Adv. Mr. Rohit Khare,Adv. Mr. Gaurang Bhushan,Adv. Mr. Abhijeet Singh,Adv. Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Digvijay Dam,Adv. Ms. Shradha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Adit Khorana, Adv. Mr. Udai Khanna, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Mr. Praveen Vignesh, Adv. Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv. Ms. Mansi Sood, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav,Adv. Mr. Akshay Amritanshu,Adv. Mr. Sandeep K.Mahapatra,Adv. Mr. Madhav Singhal,Adv. Mr. Mayank Pandey,Adv. Mr. Nakul Changappa K.K.,Adv. Ms. Akriti A.Manubarwala,Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. H. S. Parihar, AOR Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv. Ms. Ikshita Parihar, Adv. Mr. Riddhi Bose,Adv. Ms. Manicka Priya S.,Adv.

Ms. Aastha Mehta, Adv. Ms. Vishakha, Adv. Mr. Ananvay Anandvardhan, Adv. Ms. Poorna Chanra R., Adv. Ms. Sivani K., Adv. Ms. Prerana Mohapatra, Adv. Mr. Atul Kumar, AOR Mr. Vivek Narayan Sharma, AOR Mr. Ajay Singh,Adv. Ms. Mahima Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Laksha Bhavnani, Adv. Mr. Pranshu Kaushal, Adv. Mr. Ram Kumar, Adv. Mr. Adhiraj Wadhera, Adv. Mr. Sudhanshu Khandelwal, Adv. Ms. Priyambica MK Jha,Adv. Mr. Ram Kumar,Adv. Mr. Manohar Lal Sharma, in-person Ms. Suman,Adv. Mr. Thampan Thomas,Adv. Mr. K. V. Mohan, AOR Mr. Saju Jacob,Adv. Ms. Tessy Varghese,Adv. Mr. Aarush Gangal,Adv. Ms. Liza Arora,Adv. Ms. Rashika Chopra,Adv. Ms. Arunima Sinh Jadaun,Adv. Ms. Mili Verma,Adv. Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Aakash Nandolia,Adv. Ms. Sagun Srivastava,Adv. Mr. Mareesh Pravir Sahay,Adv. Ms. Awantika,Adv. Mr. Sachin Kharb,Adv. Mr. Braj Kishore Mishra, AOR Mr. G. Anandaselvam, Adv. Mr. Mayil Samy K., Adv. Dr. Gayathiri A.S.,Adv. Mr. S.J. Amith, Adv. Mr. Sanchit Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. P.Soma Sundaram,Adv. Mr. K. Kumaran, Adv. Mr. K.Muthu Ganesa Pandian,Adv. Mr. V.Pavel,Adv. Mr. Kabilan Manoharan,Adv. Mr. K.Vijay Anand,Adv. Mr. Tamil Selvan,Adv.

Mr. A. Santhakumaran, Adv. Mr. T. R. B. Sivakumar, AOR Mr. C.R.Jaya Sukin,Adv. Ms. Anjali Gupta, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha,Adv. Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh,Adv. Mr. Anil Rana,Adv. Mr. Nitin Sharma,Adv. Mr. Chaman Sharma, Adv. Mr. E.Vinay Kumar,Adv. Mr. Narender Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. C.R.Jaya Sukin,Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha,Adv. Mr. Gautam Das,Adv. Mr. Ravish Kumar Goyal,Adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar Sharma,Adv. Mr. Rahul Sharma,Adv. Ms. Mamta Shrivastava,Adv. Mr. Dharam Pal Saini,Adv. Mr. Varun Punia, AOR Mr. C.R.Jaya Sukin,Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha,Adv. Mr. Chandan Mishra,Adv. Mr. Nitin Sharma,Adv. Ms. Mamta Rani,Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar,Adv. Mr. Rahul Kumar,Adv. Ms. Manisha,Adv. Mr. E.Vinay Kumar,Adv. Mr. Vijay K. Jain, AOR Ms. Manjula Gupta, AOR Mr. Manashwy Jha, Adv. Mr. V. K. Biju, AOR Ms. Ria Sachthey,Adv. Mr. Chetanya Singh,Adv. Mr. Amlendu Kumar Akhilesh Kumar Jha,Adv. Ms. Rubina Jawed,Adv. Dr. Ranjeet Bharti,Adv. Mr. C.R.Jaya Sukin,Adv. Ms. Jyoti Zongluju,Adv. Mr. Sudhir Singh,Adv. Mr. Sarbendra Kumar,Adv. Ms. Divya Mishra,Adv. Ms. Saloni Sharan,Adv. Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR

Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, AOR Mr. Arjun Singh Bhati,Adv. Ms. Tasmiya Taleha,Adv. Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Mr. Assad Alvi, Adv. Ms. Saba A.K. Patel, Adv. Mr. D.Vidyanandan,Adv. Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Mr. Amit Kheemka,Adv. Mr. Manish Sharma,Adv. Mr. Neeraj Sharma,Adv. Mr. Sanchit Vashishiste,Adv. Mr. Rishi Sehgal, AOR Mr. Sandeep Dash,Adv. Mr. Dhaval Deshpande,Adv. Ms. Aparna Jha, AOR Mr. Ankur Prakash, AOR Mr. Jatinder Pal Singh, AOR Ms. Reema Chauhan,Adv. Mr. Shariq Ahmed, Adv. Mr. D.K. Thakur, Adv. Mr. Tariq Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kharde,Adv. Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR Mr. Ajit Sharma, AOR Mr. Ajay Vikram Singh, AOR Ms. Priyanka Singh,Adv. Ms. Pranjali Goel,Adv. Mr. Sharjeel Ahmad,Adv. Mr. Shubham Singh, Adv. Mr. Vikas Bansal,Adv. Mr. Rahul Vikram Singh,Adv. Mr. Rajesh Ranjan,Adv. Mr. Joel, AOR Mr. Attin Shankar Rastogi,Adv. Mr. Shivkant Arora,Adv. Ms. Raj Sarit Khare,Adv. Mr. Ashwani Kumar Dubey, AOR

	Mr. Deepak Nargolkar,Sr.Adv.
	Mr. Syed Ahmed Saud,Adv.
	Mr. Daanish Ahmed Syed,Adv.
	Mr. Mohd.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. Dinesh, AOR
	Mr. Rahul Raj Mishra,Adv.
	Mr. Bineesh K.,Adv.
	Mr. Arvind Kumar Shukla,Adv.
	Ms. Reetu Sharma, AOR
	Mr. Nihal Ahmed,Adv.
	Mr. Vasu Chaudhary,Adv.
	Mr. Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure, AOR
	Mr. Yash Prashant Sonavane,Adv.
	Mr. Sakshi Ajit Kale,Adv.
For Respondent(s)	Mr. R. Venkataramani, AG
	Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG
	Mr. N. Venkataraman, ASG
	Mr. K.M.Nataraj,ASG
	Ms. Vijayalakshmi Venkataramani, Adv.
	Mr. Anandh Venkataramani, Adv.
	Mr. Vinayak Mehrotra, Adv.
	Mr. M.K.Maroria, AOR
	Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, Adv.
	Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv.
	Mr. Chandra Prakash,Adv.
	Ms. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv.
	Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.
	Mr. Devashish Bharuka,Adv.
	Mr. Pratyush Shrivastava,Adv.
	Mr. Shantanu Sharma,Adv.
	Mr. Parantap Singh,Adv.
	Mr. Rohit Khare,Adv.
	Mr. Gaurang Bhushan,Adv.
	Mr. Abhijeet Singh,Adv.
	Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv.
	Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv.
	Mr. Digvijay Dam,Adv.
	Ms. Shradha Deshmukh, Adv.
	Mr. Adit Khorana, Adv.
	Mr. Udai Khanna, Adv.
	Mr. Akshay Amritanshu,Adv.
	Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv.
	Mr. Praveen Vignesh, Adv.
	Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv.
	Ms. Mansi Sood, Adv.

Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav,Adv. Mr. Sandeep K.Mahapatra,Adv. Mr. Madhav Singhal,Adv. Mr. Mayank Pandey,Adv. Mr. Nakul Changappa K.K.,Adv. Ms. Akriti A.Manubarwala,Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. H. S. Parihar, AOR Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv. Ms. Ikshita Parihar, Adv. Ms. Manicka Priya S.,Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dutta, Adv. Mr. Kumar Dushyant Singh, AOR Ms. Gunjan Malhotra, Adv. Ms. Subasri Jaganathan, Adv. Mr. P.V.Surendranath,Sr.Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mr. Sawan Kumar Shukla,Adv. Mr. Subhash Chandran K.R.,Adv. Mr. Avishkar Singhvi,Sr.Adv. Mr. Vivek Kumar,Adv. Miss Pratiksha Sharma, AOR Mr. Ankit Acharya,Adv. Mr. Mueed Shah,Adv. Mr. Dilip Annasaheb Taur, AOR Mrs. Niranjana Singh, AOR Mr. Purvish Jitendra Malkan, AOR Ms. Dharita Purvish Malkan, Adv. Mr. Jitendra M.Malkan,Adv. Ms. Deepa Gorasia, Adv. Mr. Alok Kumar,Adv. Ms. Deepa Gorasia,Adv. Ms. Kushboo Malkan,Adv. Ms. Nandini Chhabra, Adv. Ms. Bhavna Sarkar,adv. Mr. Shariq Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Tariq Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kharde,Adv.

Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, AOR Mr. Animesh Kumar,Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Thakur,Adv. Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., AOR Ms. Manisha Singh,Adv. Ms. Jagriti Bharti,Adv. Mr. Rohit K. Singh, AOR Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Respondent-in-person Mr. M. P. Vinod, AOR Mr. Atul Shankar Vinod, Adv. Mr. Dileep Pillai, Adv. Mr. Ajay Kumar Jain, Adv. Mr. Shreyansh Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Arun Kumar Jaiswal,Adv. Mr. P. A. Noor Muhamed, AOR Mrs. Giffara S., Adv. Mr. Satish Kumar, AOR Mr. Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, AOR Mr. Mahesh P. Shinde, Adv. Ms. Rucha Pande, Adv. Mr. M. Veeraragavan, Adv. Mr. Satyajeet A.Desai,Adv. Mr. Sidharth Gautam,Adv. Mr. Abhinav K.Mutyalwar,Adv. Mr. Gajanan N.Tirthakar,Adv. Mr. Satya Kam Sharma,Adv. Ms. Anagha S. Desai, AOR M/S. S.M. Jadhav And Company, AOR Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR Mr. V. K. Sidharthan, AOR Mr. Harshad V. Hameed, AOR Mr. Dileep Poolakkot, Adv. Ms. Ashly Harshad, Adv. Mr. Romy Chacko, AOR

Mr. M. Y. Deshmukh, AOR Mr. Nandkumar Deshmukh,Adv. Ms. Manjeet Kirpal,Adv. Mr. Adweetiya Sharma,Adv. Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Mr. Abdulla Naseeh V.T., Adv. Ms. Meena K. Poulose, Adv. Mr. Nischal Kumar Neeraj, AOR Mr. Ajay Mehrotra,Adv. Ms. Banisha Verma,Adv. Ms. S.Rani,Adv. Mr. M.Qayam Ud Din,Adv. Mr. Shakti N.,Adv. Ms. Drishty Maan,Adv. Mr. Puneet Bhola,Adv. Mr. Namit Saxena,Adv. Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR Ms. Prachi Pratap,Adv. Dr. Prashant Pratap,Adv. Mr. Akshay Singh,Adv. Ms. Avadhi Jain,Adv. Mr. Arnav Vats, Adv. Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR Mr. Rishi Matoliya, AOR Mr. H.D.Thanvi,Adv. Mr. Nikhil Kumar Singh,Adv. Mr. Achal Singh Bule,Adv. Mr. Mahendra Singh Inda,Adv. Mr. Harsh Vardhan,Adv. Mr. Abhinav Shrivastava, AOR Mr. Anurag Gupta,Adv. Mr. Gagan Gupta,Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Tandon,Adv. Mr. Rahul Gupta,Adv. Mr. Shivang Rawat,Adv. Ms. Radhika Jalan,Adv. Mr. Adnan Siddiqui,Adv. Ms. Aparna Satya Narayan,Adv. Mr. Ravi Kishan Chandna,Adv. Mr. Santosh Mishra, AOR Mr. Dhruv Gautam,Adv. Ms. Manisha Ambwani, AOR

Mr. Anindo Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. S.Ranjan Das,Adv. Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Mr. B.K. Mishra, Sr. Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma,Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora,Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha,Adv. Ms. Niharika Dwivedi, Adv Ms. Shweta Sand, Adv. Ms. Yamini Sharma,Adv. Mr. Anubhav Gupta, Adv. Mr. C.M. Jha, Adv. Mr. Nitin Sharma,Adv. Mr. Narendra Pal Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Adv. Mr. Ravish Kumar Goyal,Adv. Mr. Satya S. Saini,Adv Mr. Sanjay Singh,Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar, AOR Mr. Mahfooz A. Nazki, AOR Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv. Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Adv. Mr. T.Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv. Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. K.V.Girish Chowdary, Adv. Ms. Niti Richhariya, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya A. Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Ms. Kirti Dadheech, Adv. Dr. G.V. Rao, Sr. Adv. Ms. Surekha Raman,Adv. Mr. A.K. Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Namrata Mohapatra, Adv. Mr. G.Arudhra Rao,Adv. Mr. K.J. John & Co., AOR For Applicant(s) Mr. Prashant Bhushan,Adv. Mr. Pranav Sachdeva,AOR Mr. Sudiep Shrivastava,Adv. Mr. Jatin Bhardwaj,Adv. Ms. Neha Rathi,Adv.

Mr. Asutosh Sharma,Adv. Ms. Gunjan Sharma,Adv. Mr. S.L.Gupta,Adv. Mr. Neeraj Srivastav,Adv. Ms. Shefali Mitra,Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Ms. Gunjan Sharma,Adv. Mr. S.L.Gupta,Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Asutosh Sharma,Adv. Mr. Neeraj Srivastava,Adv. Mr. Varun Thakur, Adv. Mr. V.V.Gautqam,Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Nishant Rao, Adv. Ms. Kajal Dalal, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala,AOR Mr. Ritesh Khare,Adv. Ms. Nikita Anand,Adv. Ms. Deboleena Dutta,Adv. Mr. Akhilesh,Adv. Ms. Namrata,Adv. Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR Mr. Ajay Marwah, AOR Mr. Tapan Masta, Adv. Mr. Ayush Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shashikant Chaudhari, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Chaurasiya,Adv. Mr. Ganga Sagar Singh,Adv.

Hon'ble Mr. Justice B.R.Gavai pronounced the Reportable judgment of the Bench comprising Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.Abdul Nazeer, His Lordship, Hon'ble Mr. Justice A.S.Bopanna and Hon'ble Mr. Justice V. Ramasubramanian.

Hon'ble Ms. Justice B.V.Nagarathna pronounced a separate Reportable judgment differing on the reasoning and conclusions arrived at in the judgment pronounced by Hon'ble Mr. Justice B.R.Gavai so far as the question no.1 is concerned.

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The Bench while answering the Reference in terms of the signed Reportable judgments, directed the Registry to place the matters before Hon'ble the Chief Justice of India for placing them before the appropriate Bench(es).

(Neelam Gulati) (Anita Malhotra) (Kamlesh Rawat) AR-CUM-PS AR-CUM-PS Court Master (Two Signed Reportable judgments are placed on the file.)