Paramvir Singh Saini vs. Baljit Singh

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

Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No(s). 3543/2020

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 22-11-2016 in CRWP No. 1245/2016 passed by the High Court Of Punjab & Haryana At Chandigarh)

PARAMVIR SINGH SAINI Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

BALJIT SINGH & ORS. Respondent(s)

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(FOR ADMISSION)
Date : 21-02-2023 These matters were called on for hearing today.
CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B.R. GAVAI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKRAM NATH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KAROL

For Petitioner(s) Mr. Ganesh Khanna, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Bhushan, AOR

Mr. Dhawaljeet Dutta, Adv. Mr. Bankey Bihari, AOR Mr. Birendra Bikram, Adv.

Mr. Gautam Awasthi, AOR Mr. Ashish Batra, AOR

For Respondent(s)

Mr. Nikunj Dayal, AOR Ms. Jaspreet Gogia, AOR Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR

Mr. Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Sunny Choudhary, Adv.

Mr. R Venkataramani, Attorney General for India

• Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General
• Mr. Madhavi Divan, A.S.G.
• Mr. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv.
• Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.
• Ms. Nidhi Khanna, Adv.
• Mr. Anandh Venkataramani, Adv.
• Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Venkataramani, Adv.
• Mr. Vinayak Mehrotra, Adv.
• Ms. Mansi Sood, Adv.
• Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv.
• Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv.
• Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv.
• Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv.
• Ms. Sneha Kalita, Adv.
• Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR
• Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR
• Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv.
• Mr. Kv Girish Chowdary, Adv.
• Mr. T Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv.
• Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Adv.
• Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Adv.

Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR Mr. Ravi Shanker Jha, Adv. Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Ms. Shreya Singh, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Ms. Devyani Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Shekhar Raj Sharma, A.A.G. Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AOR Mr. Paras Dutta, Adv. Ms. Amrita Verma, Adv. Mr. Keshav Mittal, Adv. Ms. Sabarni Som, Adv. Mr. B. K. Satija, AOR Mr. Satish Pandey, AOR Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Sabharwal, Adv. Mr. Parth Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Akshay Kumar, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv. Ms. Mukti Chaudhry, AOR Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Mr. Abdulla Naseeh V T, Adv.

Ms. Meena K Poulose, Adv. Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Saurabh Mishra, A.A.G. Mr. Gopal Jha, AOR Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv. Mr. P.S. Negi, Adv. Mr. T.k. Nayak, Adv. Ms. Marbiang Khongwir, Adv. Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR Mr. Siddhesh Kotwal, Adv. Mr. Nihar Dharmadhikari, Adv. Ms. Sampriti Baksi, Adv. Mr. Shovan Mishra, AOR Ms. Bipasa Tripathy, Adv. Mr. D. K. Devesh, AOR Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashok Basoya, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. Arpit Prakash, Adv. Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anand Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Jainendra Ojha, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Kumar Sinha, Adv. Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR

Mr. S.. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR

Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Sai Shashank, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv. Ms. Garima Prashad, Sr. A.A.G. Ms. Ruchira Goel, AOR Mr. Adit Jayeshbhai Shah, Adv. Mr. Jaswant Singh Rawat, AOR Mr. Vikas Negi, Adv. Mr. Nand Lal, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Ravinder Singh, Adv. Mr. Srisatya Mohanty, Adv. Ms. Raveesha Gupta, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Mantika Haryani, Adv. Mr. Shreyas Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Chakravarty, Adv. Mr. Devvrat Singh, Adv. Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv. M/S. Plr Chambers And Co., AOR Ms. G. Indira, AOR Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Ms. Tina Garg, AOR Mr. M.K. Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Chandra Bhushan Prasad, AOR Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Aravindh.s, Adv. Ms. Uma Bhuvaneswari.c, Adv. Mr. Abbas, Adv. Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Mr. Karan Sharma, AOR Mr. Rishabh Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mohit Siwach, Adv. Mr. Mrigank Prabhakar, AOR Ms. Avinashi K. Bedi, Adv.

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

Mr. Siddhartha Dave, learned Senior Advocate/Amicus Curiae has submitted the Sixth Report. The Report states that many of the agencies under the Union of India and various State Governments have not complied with the directions for installation of CCTV cameras in the police station as well as the offices of agencies under the Union of India.

We request the learned Amicus Curiae to supply a copy of the said Report to the learned ASG.

We further request the learned ASG to supply a copy of the said Report to the Union of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs. A copy of the Report shall be forwarded by the Home Ministry, Union of India to the Home Secretaries of all the States as well as the Union Territories in the country. The same shall be done within a week from today.

The learned ASG submits that there is already a compliance of the directions issued by this Court and placed a chart on record indicating the same.

Though the Chart would show that some of the agencies have complied with the directions, some of the agencies have not complied with even a part of the direction.

In that view of the matter, it would be appropriate that the Union of India as well as all the States/Union Territories shall file an affidavit stating therein the present status with regard to the compliance of the directions issued by this Court. The said affidavit shall be submitted on or prior to 29.03.2023. A copy of

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the said affidavit be supplied to the learned Amicus Curiae.

We clarify that in the event the directions, as issued by this Court, are not complied with by the Union of India and the respective State Governments/Union Territories, we shall be compelled to take such steps as found necessary against the Secretary (Home), Union of India as well as the Chief Secretary and the Secretary (Home) of the respective State Governments.

We further direct the Secretary (Home), Union of India to communicate this order to all the Chief Secretaries as well as the Home Secretaries of the respective States and the Union Territories.

We direct the matter to be placed on 18.4.2023.

(DR. NAVEEN RAWAL) (BEENA JOLLY) ASTT. REGISTRAR-cum-PS COURT MASTER (NSH)