Lok Prahari Through Its General Secretary S. N. Shukla, Ias (Retd. ) Advocate vs. Union Of India

ITEM NO.1501 COURT NO.1 SECTION PIL-W

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

Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s).699/2016

ASHWINI KUMAR UPADHYAY Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ANR. Respondent(s)

Date : 09-11-2023 This petition was called on for pronouncement of judgment today.

Mr. Vijay Hansaria, Sr. Adv. (Amicus curiae) Ms. Sneha Kalita, AOR Ms. Kavya Jhawar, Adv.

• For Petitioner(s) Mr. Gopal Saankaranarayan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Ashwani Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. Rishabh Shukla, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Tanya Srivastava, Adv.
• For Respondent(s) Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G. Ms. Sonia Mathur, Sr. Adv. Ms. V Mohana, Sr. Adv. Mr. K Parmeshwar, Adv. Mr. Mohd Akhil, Adv. Mrs. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Apoorv Kurup, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, AOR Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR
  • Mr. Sidhant Kumar, Adv.
  • Ms. Manyaa Chandok, Adv.

Mr. Shiv Ram Sharma, AOR

Ms. Abhivyakti Banerjee, Adv.

Mr. P.N. Ravindran, Sr. Adv. Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Ms. Swathi H. Prasad, Adv.

Digitally signed by Sanjay Kumar Date: 2023.11.10 09:59:06 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

Mr. P. S. Sudheer, AOR Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Nishant Rao, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Srisatya Mohanty, Adv. Ms. Anju Thomas, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Mantika Haryani, Adv. Mr. Shreyas Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Chakravarty, Adv. Ms. Ripul Swati Kumari, Adv. Mr. Bhanu Mishra, Adv. Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv. Ms. Anvita Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Lihzu Shiney Konyak, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Mr. Anupam Raina, AOR Mr. Sunando Raha, Adv. Mr. Nishant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR Mr. Kumar Mihir, AOR Ms. G. Indira, AOR Mrs. Swarupama Chaturvedi, AOR Mr. Anandh Kannan N., AOR Mr. Rushab Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Ms. Maitreyee Jagat Joshi, Adv. Mr. Astik Gupta, Adv. Ms. Riddhima J Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Japnish Singh Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Aashish Chojar, Adv. Ms. Alka Chojar, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Kabir Shankar Bose, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Apoorv Kurup, AOR Ms. Kirti Dadheech, Adv.

Ms. Gauri Goburdhun, Adv. Ms. Aparna Arun, Adv. Mr. Akhil Hasija, Adv. Mr. Shivansh Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Mr. Ravindra Lokhande, Adv. Ms. Vidyottma Jha, Adv. Dr. Abhishek Atrey, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Anand Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Devvrat Singh, Adv. Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR Intervenor-in-person Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. S.C. Verma, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Mr. Yash Gupta, Adv. Mr. Anup Rattan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Baldev Singh, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Kumar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Tavleen Singh, Adv. Ms. Vallabhi Shukla, Adv. Mr. Joginder Mann, Adv. Mr. Divyansh Thakur, Adv. Mr. Bimlesh Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Kanwal Chaudhary, Adv. Ms. Niharika, Adv. Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR M/S. Gorkela Law Office, AOR Mr. Abhimanue Shrestha, AOR Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Abraham Mathew, Adv. Mr. Siddhesh Shirish Kotwal, AOR Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Manya Hasija, Adv. Mr. Tejasvi Gupta, Adv. Mr. Pawan Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. T. Illayarasu, Adv.

Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Prashant Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Priyanshu Malik, Adv. Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, AOR Mr. Gaurav Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sagar, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Jain, Adv. Mr. Prabhat Ranjan Raj, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Sarthi, Adv. Mrs. Divya Mishra, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gunjesh Ranjan, Adv. Ms. Priyadarshni Priya, Adv. Mr. Gautam Narayan, AOR Ms. Asmita Singh, Adv. Ms. Enakshi Mukhopadhyay Siddhanta, AOR Mr. Sovan Siddhanta, Adv. Mr. Anil Shrivastav, AOR Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Manendra Pal Gupta, Adv. Mr. Md.apzal Ansari, Adv. Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR Mr. Krishnam Mishra, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Ashiwan Mishra, Adv. Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, AOR Mr. Santosh Krishnan, AOR Ms. Deepshikha Sansanwal, Adv. Mr. Ambhoj Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. Raghavendra S. Srivatsa, AOR

Mr. Venkita Subramoniam T.R, Adv. Mr. Likhi Chand Bonsle, Adv. Ms. Komal Mundhra, Adv. Ms. Anagha N. Sharma, Adv. Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., AOR Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, A.A.G. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr. C Kranthi Kumar, Adv. Mr. Naman Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv. Ms. Radhika Gautam, AOR Mr. Karan Bharihoke, AOR Mr. Mahesh Thakur, AOR Ms. K. V. Bharathi Upadhyaya, AOR Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G. Mr. M.k. Maroria, Sr. Adv. Mr. K.v.sreemuthin, Adv. Ms. Priyadarshini Priya, Adv. Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Jain, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Adv. Mr. Mohit Prasad, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, AOR Mr. Satish Pandey, AOR Mr. Akbar Ali, Adv. Mr. Manmohan Sharma, Adv. Ms. Jay Jaimini Pandey, Adv. Ms. Sadiya Shakeel, Adv. Mrs. Lalita Gupta, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Harendra Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Adv. Mr. Shah Syed Samadur Rahman, Adv. Mr. Abdul Qadir, Adv. Mr. Umang Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar Tiwari, Adv.

Mr. Prabhoo Dayal Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Bankura, Adv. Dr. Nafis A.siddiqui, Adv. Mr. Malak Manish Bhatt, AOR Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, AOR Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mr. Sandeep Sharma, Adv. Mr. Karan Bishnoi, Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv. Ms. Kshitij Singh, Adv. Mr. Sohhom Sau, Adv. Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR Ms. Sampriti Baksi, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Sudhakar Deshmukh, AOR Mr. Nishant Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akshay Subhash Jagtap, Adv. Mr. Swapnil Anil Walde, Adv. Mr. Kabir Dixit, AOR Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Ms. Vani Vandana Chhetri, Adv. Ms. Nishi Sangtani, Adv. Mr. Naman Jain, Adv. Mr. Anand Dilip Landge, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Mr. Anandh Kannan N., AOR M/S. Plr Chambers And Co., AOR Ms. Jesal Wahi, AOR Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Mrs. Shashi Pathak, Adv. Ms. Aswathi M.k., AOR

Mr. Shovan Mishra, AOR Mr. B.K. Satija, A.A.G. Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AOR Mr. Keshav Mittal, Adv. Ms. Sabarni Som, Adv.

• 1 Hon'ble Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India pronounced the judgment of the Bench comprising His Lordship, Hon'ble Mr Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Hon'ble Mr Justice Manoj Misra.
• 2 In terms of the reportable judgment, the writ petition is disposed with respect to the first prayer concerning the expeditious disposal of criminal cases against elected members of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies.
• 3 This Writ Petition will now be listed for hearing on the other issue relating to the constitutional validity of Section 8 of the Representation of Peoples Act, 1951.

(SANJAY KUMAR-I) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR) DEPUTY REGISTRAR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR (Signed reportable judgment is placed on the file)