National Legal Services Authority Member Secretary vs. Union Of India Ministry Of Human Resource Development Secretary

ITEM NO.52 COURT NO.5 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).659/2007

ENVIRONMENT & CONSUMER PROTN.FOUNDATION Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)

(with appln. (s) for directions, appln.(s) for intervention and extension of time) and permission to file additional documents and office report)

WITH W.P.(C) No. 133/2012 (With Office Report)

W.P.(C) No. 168/2012 (With Office Report)

Date : 17/02/2017 These petitions were called on for hearing today.

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MADAN B. LOKUR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PRAFULLA C. PANT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA

For Petitioner(s) Mr. Ravindra Bana, AOR Mr. Rono Mohanty, Adv.

NALSA Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR

Ms. Surabhi Aggarwal, Adv.

Ms. Srishti Agnihotri, Adv.

Ms. Dharavi Subramanian, Adv.

Mr. Alok Aggarwal, Member Secretary

Mr. Kabir Ali Zia Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR

For Respondent(s) Mr. Kailash Vasdev, Sr. Adv. Mr. K. Radhakrishnan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Vimla Sinha, Adv. Mr. Amarjeet Singh, Adv. Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Adv. Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR Mr. G.S. Makkar, Adv. Date: 2017.02.20 14:47:08 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

Digitally signed by SANJAY KUMAR

Sulabh International Dr. S.K. Verma, AOR Ms. Gargi Tuli, Adv. Mr. Arindam Mukherjee, Adv. NCW Ms. Aparna Bhat, AOR Ms. Joshita Pai, Adv. For States of Bihar Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Ms. Vimla Sinha, Adv. Chhattisgarh Mr. Jugal Kishore Gilda, Adv. Gen. Mr. Aniruddh P. Mayee, AOR Mr. A. Selvin Raja, Adv. NCT of Delhi Mr. D.S. Mahra, AOR H.P. Mr. D.K. Thakur, DAG Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pragati Neekhra,AOR Kerala Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Ms. Anu K. Joy, Adv. Karnataka Mr. V.N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Lagnesh Mishra, Adv. Mr. Parikshit P. Angadi, Adv. Mr. Prakash Jadhav, Adv. Maharashtra Mr. Kunal A. Cheema, Adv. Mr. Yogesh K. Ahirrao, Adv. Mr. Nishant R. Katneswarkar, Adv. Manipur Mr. Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Adv. Ms. B. Khushbansi, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, AOR Meghalaya Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. S. Bhowmick, Adv. Mr. S.C. Ghosh, Adv. Ms. Aprajita Mukherjee, Adv. Mizoram Mr. P.V. Yogeswaran, AOR Nagaland Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Mr. Edward Belho, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv. Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv.

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Sikkim	Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv.<br>Mr. Yusuf Khan, Adv.<br>Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv.<br>Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Arora, Adv.<br>for M/s Arputham Aruna & Co.
Tamil Nadu	Mr. B. Balaji, AOR<br>Mr. Muthuvel Palani, Adv.<br>Mr. S.Kumar, Adv.
Tripura	Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR<br>Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv.<br>Ms. Varsha Poddar, Adv.
Uttar Pradesh	Mr. Suryanarayana Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR<br>Mr. Utkarsh Sharma, Adv.
West Bengal	Mr. Joydeep Mazumdar, Adv.<br>Mr. Debojyoti Bhattacharya, Adv.<br>Mr. Rohit Dutta, Adv.<br>Mr. Parijat Sinha, AOR
A&N Islands	Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv.<br>Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv.<br>Mrs. G. Indira, AOR
Puducherry	Mr.V.G. Pragasam, AOR<br>Mr. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv.
Chandigarh	Mr. Sudarshan Singh Rawat, AOR<br>Ms. A. Subhashini, Adv.

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

Learned counsel for the National Commission for Women says that a final report has been prepared and filed in this Court. A copy of the report be placed on the website of the NCW so that the Union of India can take necessary steps to comply with the directions/suggestions made in the final report.

It is further submitted by learned counsel for the NCW that certain directions are sought for in the interim report as mentioned in the order dated 29th April, 2016. She says that these directions have not been complied with. She also says that these interim directions have been mentioned in the final report also.

The Union of India should ensure that the directions are complied with at the earliest and file an affidavit in this regard within four weeks.

List the matters for final disposal on 29th March, 2017.

(SANJAY KUMAR-I) (JASWINDER KAUR) AR-CUM-PS COURT MASTER