Balraj Singh vs. Union Of India

ITEM NO.501

COURT NO.1

SECTION IV-B

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No.30621/2011

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 15-07-2011) in CWP No. 13218/2009 passed by the High Court of Punjab & Harvana at Chandigarh)

JARNAIL SINGH & ORS.

Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

(With appln.(s) for direction, exemption from filing O.T. and

LACHHMI NARAIN GUPTA. & ORS.

S.L.P.(C) No.35000/2011 (IV-B) S.L.P.(C) No.4831/2012 (XV)

WITH <u>S.L.P.(C) No.31735/2011 (IV-B)</u>

Respondent $(s)$

<pre>impleadment and intervention)</pre> S.L.P.(C) No.2839/2012 (IX) S.L.P.(C) No.5860/2012 (IX) S.L.P.(C) No.5859/2012 (IX) S.L.P.(C) No.30841/2012 (IX) S.L.P.(C) No.8327/2014 (IV-B) S.L.P.(C) No.6915/2014 (IV-B) S.L.P.(C) Nos.16710-16711/2014 (IV-B) S.L.P.(C) No.33163/2014 (IV-B) S.L.P.(C) No.23344/2014 S.L.P.(C) Nos.23339-23340/2014 S.L.P.(C) No.21343/2015 C.A. Nos. 4562-4564/2017 (With appln.(s) for appropriate orders/direction and impleading party) S.L.P.(C) No.25191/2015 (With appln.(s) for stay, exemption from filing O.T., permission to file annexures and permission to file additional documents) C.A. No.4880/2017 C.A. Nos.4878-4879/2017 S.L.P.(C) No.31191/2015 (With appln.(s) for stay, exemption from filing O.T., permission to some **find e** annexures, permission to file additional documents and <table>

Cation/direction $\frac{17.15}{17.15}$ Nos. 4876-4877/2017 C.A. No.4881/2017 S.L.P.(C) No.33688/2015 C.A. No.4882/2017 CONMT.PET.(C) 314/2016 In S.L.P.(C) No.4831/2012

(With appln.(s) for intervention) C.A. No.5247/2016 C.A. No.11817/2016 C.A. No.11816/2016 C.A. No.11820/2016 T.P.(C) No.608-609/2017 C.A. No.4833/2017 (With appln.(s) for permission to appear and argue in person) C.A. No.701-704/2017 C.A. No.11822-11825/2016 C.A. No.11837-11840/2016 C.A. No.11842-11845/2016 C.A. No.11829-11832/2016 C.A. No.11847-11850/2016 C.A. No.11828/2016 CONMT.PET.(C) No.11/2017 In S.L.P.(C) Nos.19765/29015 @ S.L.P.(C) Nos.19765-19767/2015 CONMT.PET.(C) No.13/2017 In S.L.P.(C) Nos.19767/29015 @ S.L.P.(C) Nos.19765-19767/2015 (With appln.(s) for clarification/direction) S.L.P.(C) No.10638/2017 S.L.P.(C) CC No.6821/2017 (With appln.(s) for c/delay) S.L.P.(C) No.17491/2017 S.L.P.(C) No.18844/2017 (With appln.(s) for c/delay and interim relief) S.L.P.(C) Nos.19422-19423/2017 (With appln.(s) for c/delay and interim relief) S.L.P.(C) No.24681/2017 Diary No.28776/2017 Diary No.29066/2017 Diary No.30189/2017 (With appln.(s) for exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment, exemption from filing O.T., permission to file SLP/TP and permission to file additional documents) Diary No.31145/2017 (With appln.(s) for c/delay) S.L.P.(C) No.28446-28447/2017 (With appln.(s) for exemption exemption from filing O.T., permission to file lengthy list of dates and permission to file additional documents) S.L.P.(C) No.28306/2017 (With appln.(s) for c/delay, exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment, exemption from filing O.T., c/delay in refiling and permission to file lengthy list of dates and permission to file additional documents and intervention) Diary No.33481/2017 (With appln.(s) for c/delay, exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment, exemption from filing O.T.) S.L.P.(C) No.33481/2017 S.L.P.(C) No.30942/2017 (With appln.(s) for exemption from filing c/c of the impugned

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judgment and exemption from filing O.T.) Diary No.33488/2017 (With appln.(s) for c/delay, exemption from filing O.T. and permission to file SLP/TP) Diary No.34271/2017 Diary No.34520/2017 Diary No.35324/2017 Diary No.35577/2017 Diary No.35818/2017 Diary No.36305/2017 (With appln.(s) for c/delay, exemption from filing O.T. and permission to file SLP/TP) Diary No.36377/2017 (With appln.(s) for c/delay in filing, exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment, permission to file SLP, permission to file lengthy list of dates and permission to file additional documents) S.L.P.(C) No.31288/2017 (With appln.(s) for permission to file additional documents/facts) Diary No.38895/2017 Diary No.42413/2017 (With appln.(s) for c/delay, exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment, exemption from filing O.T., c/delay in refiling and permission to file lengthy list of dates) Diary No.619/2018 Diary No.969/2018 Diary No.971/2018 Diary No.1042/2018 Diary No.1046/2018 Diary No.1584/2018 Diary No.2677/2018 Diary No.7243/2018 S.L.P.(C) No.16469/2018 (For interim relief) S.L.P.(C) No.18925/2018 (With appln.(s) for exemption from filing O.T., permission to file SLP/TP and permission to file additional documents) Diary No.22349/2018 (With appln.(s) for c/delay in filing SLP, exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment and interim relief) S.L.P.(C) No.22985/2018 (With appln.(s) for substitution and interim relief)

Date : 30-08-2018 This petition was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KURIAN JOSEPH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ROHINTON FALI NARIMAN HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KISHAN KAUL HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE INDU MALHOTRA

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For Petitioner(s) Mr. Chandra Bhushan Prasad, AOR Mr. Shantanu Krishna, AOR Mr. Ajit Wagh, Adv. Mr. Apoorv Shukla, Adv. Mr. Ashok K. Mahajan, AOR Mr. Mohan Pandey, AOR Mr. K.N. Rai, AOR Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG Mr. P.K. Mullick, Adv. Mr. G.S. Makkar, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG Mr. K. Radhakrishnan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bhatt, Adv. Mr. P.K. Mullick, Adv. Ms. Kanika Saran, Adv. Mr. Prabhas Bajaj, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. P.S. Patwalia, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manan Kumar Mishra, AAG Mr. Subodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv. Ms. Natasha Dalmia, Adv. Ms. Harishika Verma, Adv. Mr. Sayooj Mohan Das, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Rattan Bhardwaj, AOR Dr. Ashutosh Garg, Adv. Mr. P.S. Patwalia, Sr. Adv. Ms. Abha R. Sharma, AOR Mr. D.S. Parmar, Adv. Ms. Sujeeta Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Ankit Mishra, Adv. Ms. Hanshika Verma, Adv.

Ms. Natasha, Adv. Mr. A. Mariarputham, Sr. Adv. Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Mr. Yusuf Khan, Adv. Ms. Geetanjali, Adv. M/s. Arputham Aruna and Co. Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, AOR Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Krishan Singh Chauhan, AOR Mr. Ajit Kumar Ekka, Adv. Mr. Ravi Prakash, Adv. Mr. Murari Lal, Adv. Mr. K.C. Lamba, Adv. Mr. Deepak Jain, Adv. Mrs. Jaspreet A., Adv. Ms. Prabhleen Kaur, Adv. Ms. A. Sumathi, AOR Mr. Purushendra Kaurav, Adv. Gen. Mr. Saurabh Mishra, AAG Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Devansh Shrivastava, Adv. Ms. Indira Jaising, Sr. Adv. Ms. Ajita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sumit Pachkhande, Adv. Mr. Nagesh Gajghate, Adv. Ms. Shashi Kiran, AOR Mr. Satish Chandra, Adv. Sana Mujawar, Adv. Mr. Satish Chandra, Adv. Mr. Manoj Jain, Adv. Mr. Arjun Sain, Adv. Mr. Prakash Sharma, Adv. Mohd. Naved, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Sharma, Adv. Ms. Prerna Mehta, AOR Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv. Mr. Pranja Kishore, Adv. Mr. S. Nithin, Adv. M/s. Gorkela Law Office

Mr. Rupinder Singh Suri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Varun Khanna, Adv. Mr. Aditya Giri, Adv. Mr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv. Mr. Alok Singh, Adv. Mr. Sahil, Adv. Mr. Prakash Sharma, Adv. M/s. Gorkela Law Office Mr. Nidhesh Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv. Ms. Vriti Gujral, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Singhi, Adv. Mr. Sahil, Adv. Mr. Alok Singh, Adv. Mr. Prakash Sharma, Adv. for M/s. Gorkela Law Office Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv. Mr. Sahil, Adv. Mr. Alok Singh, Adv. Mr. Prakash Sharma, Adv. Mohammad Ibrahim, Adv. Ms. Lubna Naaz, Adv. Mrs. Kunika, Adv. M/s. Gorkela Law Office Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR Mr. R.L. Vanjarani, Sr. Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, AOR Mr. Shreekant N. Terdal, AOR Ms. Indira Jaising, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aakarsh K., Adv. Mr. Pratik R. Bombarde, AOR Ms. Ajita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Pradeep S. Wthore, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Adv. Mr. Jitendra Ashok, Adv. M/s. S.M. Jadhav & Co. Mr. S.B. Pawar, Adv. Mr. Shriram Pingale, Adv. Mr. Sagar Pawan, Adv. Mr. Pratik Gaurav, Adv.

Ms. Sneha Iyer, Adv. Ms. Deepa Kulkarni, Adv. Ms. Suvrna Ganu, Adv. Mr. Nishant Ramakantraw Katneshwarkar, AOR Dr. Rajiv Dhawan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Atul Yeshwant Chitale, Sr. Adv. Mr. Gurjyot Sethi, Adv. Ms. Shivangi Khanna, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Kakar, Adv. Mr. Abhijat P. Medh, AOR Mr. M. Vijaya Bhaskar, AOR Mr. Sunil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gaya Prasad, Adv. Mr. Randhir Singh, Adv. Mr. Satya Prakash Gautam, Adv. Ms. Olivia Bang, Adv. Mr. D. Kumanan, Adv. Mr. Pulkit Tare, Adv. Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Mr. Arvind S. Avhad, AOR Mr. P.K. Jayakrishnan, AOR Mr. R.S.M. Kalky, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ram Kishan, Adv. Mr. Sat Narain, Adv. Dr. Gunratan Sadavarte, Adv. Dr. Jay Shree L. Patil, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mr. Makrand Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Verma, Adv. Mr. Raj Singh Rana, AOR Mr. Rakesh V. Rathod, Adv. Mr. Dinesh P. Rajbhar, Adv. Ms. Anzu K. Varkey, AOR Mr. Prashant R. Dahat, Adv. Mr. T.R.B. Sivakumar, AOR Mr. Shreyas G., Adv. For Respondent(s) Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG Mr. K. Radhakrishnan, Sr. Adv. Mr. P.K. Mullick, Adv. Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR

Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Adv. Mr. Shobhit Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Lal Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Umesh Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Shrey Patnaik, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Kane, Adv. Ms. N. Annapoorani,AOR Mr. Soumya Chakraborty, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pankaj Sharma, Adv. Mr. Lal Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Karan Khanna, Adv. Mr. Arjun Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Bhaskar Aditya, Adv. Mr. Aniket Bhattacharya, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. Pradeep Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Shobhit Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Lal Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Umesh Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Paban Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ram Niwas, Adv. Mr. R.S. Chauhan, Adv. Mr. K. Radhakrishnan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Niranjana Singh, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. A. Subba Rao, AOR Mr. K.L.D.S. Vinober, Adv. Mr. Krishan Singh Chauhan, AOR Mr. Ajit Kumar Ekka, Adv. Mr. Ravi Prakash, Adv. Mr. Chand Kiran, Adv. Ms. Shashi Kiran, AOR Mr. Anuj Saxena, Adv. Ms. Payal Gaikwad, Adv. Mr. Satpal Singh, AOR Mr. S.N. Bhat, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Amarendra Sharan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, AOR Ms. Shakun Sharma, Adv.

Ms. Harshal Gupta, Adv. Mr. N. Raja Senthoor Pandian, Adv. Mr. Vivek Singh, Adv. Mr. Harshal Gupta, Adv. Mr. Chandra Bhushan Prasad, AOR Mr. Sushil Karanjkar, Adv. Mr. K.N. Rai, AOR Mr. Kuldip Singh, AOR Mr. Dinesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. P. Soma Sundaram, AOR Mr. Chandan Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rituraj Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Sujaya Bardhan, Adv. Mr. Krishnam Mishra, Adv. Mr. Nishant Singh, Adv. Mr. Yasharth Kant, Adv. Dr. Rajeev Dhawan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kumar Parimal, Adv. Mr. Prakash Pandey, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR Ms. Kiran Suri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Parimal Kumar, Adv. Mr. S.J. Amith, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv. Mr. Krishan Kumar, Adv. Mrs. Vipin Gupta, AOR Mr. Sailash Madiyal, AOR Mr. Sudhanshu Prakash, Adv. Ms. V. Lakshmi Narayan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Dinesh K. Garg, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Garg, Adv. Mr. Dhananjay Garg, AOR Mr. Deepak Mishra, Adv. Mr. Sriniwas Babu, Adv. Mr. N. Premraj, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra, AOR Mr. Anuj Singh, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AAG Ms. Alka Sinha, Adv. Mr. Anuvrat Sharma, AOR

Mr. Ravindra Kumar, AOR Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde, Sr. Adv. Mr. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, AOR Ms. Aditi Gupta, Adv. Mr. Ibad Mushtaq, Adv. Ms. Kauser Husain, Adv. Mr. Pranjal Kishore, Adv. Mr. Abdul Qadir, Adv. M/s. Arputham Aruna and CO. Ms. A. Sumathi, AOR Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR Respondent in-person Mr. Umesh Pratap Singh, Adv. Captain Gurvinder Singh, Adv. Ms. Vivya Nagpal, Adv. Mr. Arjun Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Aniket Bhattacharya, Adv. Mr. Bhaskar Aditya, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Kejriwal, AOR Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR Mr. Prateek Rusia, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Mr. B. Sridhar, AOR Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Suyash Mohan Guru, Adv. Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Mr. Sarvesh Singh Baghel, Adv. Mr. K.B. Baghel, Adv. Mr. Suyash Mohan Guru, Adv. Ms. Lalita Kaushik, AOR Mr. Vardhman Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Amol Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Eklavya Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Naresh Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Nishant Gautam, Adv. Mr. Karn Deo Baghel, Adv. Mr. Omungraj Gupta, Adv. Mr. Manoj Joshi, Adv.

Devi K. Singh, Adv.

Mr. S.K. Gangele, Adv. Mr. Vivek Jaswal, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Joshi, Adv. Ms. Lalita Kaushik, AOR Mr. K.K.L. Gautam, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kr. Suman, Adv. Mr. Rahul M., Adv. Mr. R.R. Bag, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Maolhotra, AOR Mr. M.K. Dua, AOR Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Ms. Amita Singh Kalkal, AOR Mr. Puneet Jain, Adv. Mr. Abhinav gupta, Adv. Mr. Harsh Jain, Adv. Ms. Christi Jain, AOR Ms. Vineeta Meghrajani, Adv. Mr. Vishwa Pal Singh, AOR Dr. Rajeev Dhawan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kumar Parimal, Adv. Mr. Prakash Pandey, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Smarhar Singh, AOR Ms. Priya Sharma, Adv. Mr. Prathvi Raj Chauhan, Adv. Ms. Suchitra Atul Chitale, AOR Mr. Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure, AOR Dr. M.P. Raju, Adv. Mr. M. Vijaya Bhaskar, AOR Mr. Sunil Kumar, Adv. Mr. S.P. Singh, Adv. Dr. Rajiv Dhawan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Atul Yeshwant Chitale, Sr. Adv. Mrs. Suchitra A. Chitale, Adv. Mr. Gurjyot Sethi, Adv. Ms. Shivangi Khanna, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Kakar, Adv. Mr. Abhijat P. Medh, AOR

Mr. Nikhilesh Ramachandran, AOR

Mr. Shekhar Naphade, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kharde, Adv. Mr. Samrat Shinde, Adv. Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Prateek Rusia, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Avijit Bhattacharjee, AOR Mrs. Upma Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Ajoy Kr. Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Nitin Deorao Meshram, Adv. Mr. Ranbir Singh Yadav, AOR Mr. Sagar Kushwah, Adv. Mr. Chandan Ramamurthi, AOR Mr. Manoj R. Sinha, Adv. Mr. Prashant R. Dahat, Adv. Mr. Venkateswara Rao Anumolu, Adv. Mr. Sant Ranjan Das, Adv. Mr. Anindo Mukherjee, Adv. Ms. Sarla Chandra, Adv.

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

Hearing concluded.

Judgment reserved.

(Chetan Kumar) (H.S. Parasher) A.R.-cum-P.S. Assistant Registrar