La Martiniere For Boys School vs. Rajib Chakraborty

COURT NO.7

SECTION XVI

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No. 12951/2020

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 13-10-2020 in WPA No. 5890/2020 passed by the High Court at Calcutta)

ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS FOR THE INDIAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE WEST <pre>BENGAL CHAPTERPetitioner(s)</pre>

VERSUS

VINEET RUIA & ORS.

Respondent $(s)$

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SLP(C) No. 13836/2020 (XVI) (IA No. 115668/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 115666/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 13930/2020 (XVI) (IA No. 115391/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 115389/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 1149/2021 (XVI) (IA No. 7171/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 7168/2021 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) SLP(C) No. 12435-12436/2022 (XVI) (IA No. 81308/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 81309/2022 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES) SLP(C) No. 14999-15000/2022 (XVI) (IA No. 98240/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 98243/2022 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES IA No. 98238/2022 - PERMISSION TO FILE PETITION (SLP/TP/WP/..)) SLP(C) No. 9965/2022 (XVI) (IA No. 69853/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 69854/2022 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES) Date : 26-09-2022 These matters were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.R. SHAH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KRISHNA MURARI For Parties Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Ms. Charu Sangwan, Adv. Mr. Devvrat, Adv. Mr. Prasun Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nikhil Nayar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ritin Rai, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Mr. Sourav Bhagat, Adv. Mr. Shoumendu Mukherji, Adv. Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv. Ms. Megha Sharma, Adv.

• 6 - Mr. T. V. George, AOR Mr. Bijan Kumar Ghosh, AOR Mr. Surajit Samanta, Adv. Mr. Ashwani Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Jose Abraham, AOR M.P. Srivignesh, Adv. Lakshman Raja T., Adv. Mithun Kumaar N., Adv. Mr. Rohit Amit Sthalekar, AOR Mr. Sankalp Narain, Adv Mr. B.P. Tiwari, Adv Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, ASG Mr. B.K. Satija, Adv Ms. B.L. N. Shivani, Adv. Mr. Rustam Singh Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sharma, Adv Mr. G.S. Makkar, AOR Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv. Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR Mr. Swarnendu Chatterjee, Adv. Ms. Pracheta Kar, Adv. Mr. Aditya Sidhra, Adv. Mr. Nadeem Afroz, Adv. Ms. Deepakshi Garg, Adv. Mr. Yashwardhan Singh, Adv. Ms. Shruti Agarwal, AOR Mr. Pijush K. Roy, Adv. Ms. Kakali Roy, Adv Mr. Tushar Alok, Adv. Dr. P. V. Saravanaraja, AOR Mr. Ninad Dogra, AOR Ms. Surabhi Guleria, AOR Mr. Vivek Singh, AOR Mr. Rajeev Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Soumya Chakraborty, Sr. Adv. Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR Ms. Richa Kapoor, AOR Mr. Kunal Anand, Adv. Ms. Jyoti Zongluju, Adv.

Mr. Suvidutt M.S., AOR Ms. Somlagna Biswas, Adv. Mr. Rishesh Sikarwar, Adv. Mr. Aman Khullar, Adv. Ms. Renu Yadav, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Sanjeev Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Raveesha Gupta, Adv. Ms. Mantika Haryani, Adv. Mr. Saurav Gupta, AOR Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, AOR Mrs. Rashmi Singhania, Adv. Mr. Suvidutt M.s., AOR Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, AOR Srija Choudhury, Adv. Anant, Adv. Mr. Rupesh Kumar, AOR Ms. Neelam Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pankhuri Shrivastava, Adv.

M/S. Plr Chambers And Co., AOR

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R In the facts and circumstances of the case and in view of the changed circumstances, more particularly when the COVID period has gone, we request the High Court to finally decide and dispose of the pending writ petitions rather than keeping them pending and issuing directions time to time, as early as possible. The High Court shall make all endeavours to finally decide and dispose of the pending writ petitions at the earliest and preferably within a period of three months from today. If any dispute arises on interpretation of any of the directions impugned in the present contd..

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Special Leave Petitions, the same may be agitated before the High and the High Court to consider the same in accordance with law and on its own merits.

Till the final disposal of the writ petitions, ad-interim relief granted earlier by this Court vide order dated 28.10.2020 is directed to be continued.

With this, all the Special Leave Petitions stand disposed of. Pending application(s) shall stand disposed of.

(NEETU SACHDEVA) (NISHA TRIPATHI) ASTT. REGISTRAR-cum-PS ASSISTANT REGISTRAR