Balraj Singh vs. Union Of India

ITEM NO.301+302

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

COURT NO.7

Civil Appeal No(s). 629/2022

JARNAIL SINGH & ORS.

Appellant(s)

VERSUS

LACHHMI NARAIN GUPTA. & ORS.

WITH C.A. No. 630/2022 (IV) (FOR ON IA 2/2011)

C.A. No. 631/2022 (IV)

C.A. No. 638/2022 (IV)

C.A. No. 645/2022 (IV) (FOR CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING ON IA 1/2014 FOR CONDONATION OF DELAY IN REFILING ON IA 2/2014 IA No. 1/2014 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING IA NO. 2/2014 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN REFILING / CURING THE DEFECTS)

C.A. No. 642/2022 (IV) (IA No. 1/2014 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING IA No. 2/2014 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN REFILING / CURING THE DEFECTS)

C.A. No. 643-644/2022 (IV) (IA NO. 1/2014 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING)

C.A. No. 703-704/2022 (IV) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.82236/2019-CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING and IA No.82243/2019-PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES)

C.A. No. 4880/2017 (XVI) (IA No. 52639/2022 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS)

C.A. No. 4878-4879/2017 (XVI) Signature Not Verified REFERENCE No. 4876-4877/2017 (XVI) 17:29:00 $\frac{15}{17}$ OR ON IA 4/2016)

C.A. No. 4881/2017 (XVI)

C.A. No. 4882/2017 (XVI)

Respondent $(s)$

C.A. No. 651/2022 (IV) (FOR APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION ON IA 97433/2021 IA No. 97433/2021 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION) C.A. No. 5247/2016 (IV-C) (IA No. 77479/2022 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS) C.A. No. 4833/2017 (IV) (IA No. 60803/2017 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON) C.A. No. 652/2022 (XIV-A) (IA No. 1/2017 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING) C.A. No. 656/2022 (IV) C.A. No. 654-655/2022 (IV) C.A. No. 650/2022 (IV) (IA No. 78184/2016 - APPLICANT-IN-PERSON DR. R.P. SINGH HAS FILED THE DOCUMENTS) C.A. No. 662/2022 (XIV-A) (IA No. 120779/2017 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) C.A. No. 755/2022 (XIV-A) (IA No. 114085/2017 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 114083/2017 - PERMISSION TO FILE PETITION (SLP/TP/WP/..)) C.A. No. 657/2022 (IV) (IA No. 54572/2018 - MODIFICATION) C.A. No. 752/2022 (IV) (IA No. 97435/2021 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION IA No. 127052/2019 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION IA No. 102076/2017 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING) C.A. No. 754/2022 (XIV-A) (IA No. 101068/2017 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 112655/2017 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES IA No. 101064/2017 - PERMISSION TO FILE PETITION (SLP/TP/WP/..)) C.A. No. 663/2022 (IV) (IA No. 97436/2021 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION) C.A. No. 653/2022 (IV) (IA No. 54835/2017 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT)

C.A. No. 707-708/2022 (XIV-A)

C.A. No. 782/2022 (IV-C) (FOR APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS ON IA 87839/2022 IA No. 87839/2022 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS) C.A. No. 750-751/2022 (IV) (IA No. 94761/2018 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING IA No. 94765/2018 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) C.A. No. 668-669/2022 (IV) (IA No. 115137/2018 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) C.A. No. 747-749/2022 (IV) (IA No. 141703/2018 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING IA No. 141704/2018 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN REFILING / CURING THE DEFECTS IA No. 141705/2018 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) C.A. No. 675-676/2022 (XIV-A) (IA No. 70735/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS IA No. 56093/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS IA No. 53895/2020 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION IA No. 56092/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 70740/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 70530/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 56094/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 56091/2020 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 100792/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 70529/2020 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 132012/2020 - WITHDRAWAL OF CASE / APPLICATION) C.A. No. 517-519/2022 (XVI) (IA No. 68512/2019 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 68513/2019 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 1067/2019 in CA No. 629/2022 (IV) (IA No. 152739/2019 - CONTEMPT PETITION IA No. 14519/2020 - DELETING THE NAME OF PETITIONER/RESPONDENT) C.A. No. 1004/2020 (IV) (IA No. 1/2014 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING IA No. 24008/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. IA No. 24006/2020 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) C.A. No. 737/2022 (IV)

(IA No. 97430/2021 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION IA No. 6365/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT)

C.A. No. 743/2022 (IV) C.A. No. 742/2022 (IV) (IA No. 80481/2020 - APPLICATION FOR RECTIFICATION IA No. 101780/2020 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION IA No. 58594/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 101783/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 58592/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF DATES) C.A. No. 733/2022 (IV) (IA No. 97429/2021 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION IA No. 4481/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) C.A. No. 664/2022 (IV) (IA No. 97434/2021 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION IA No. 132300/2017 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) C.A. No. 2434/2019 (IV) (IA No. 97432/2021 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION IA No. 51315/2017 - INTERIM STAY) C.A. No. 744/2022 (IV) (IA No. 134305/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 134306/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES) W.P.(C) No. 882/2021 (X) (IA No. 117024/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. IA No. 96389/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. IA No. 117023/2021 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 96393/2021 - STAY APPLICATION) SLP (C) No(s). 22793/2022 (IA No. 194099/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) Date : 31-01-2023 This appeal was called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJIV KHANNA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B.R. GAVAI HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE B.V. NAGARATHNA For Appellant(s)

Mr. Sanjay Jain, A.S.G.

• Mr. Balbir Singh, A.S.G. Mr. R Balasubramanium, Sr. Adv. Mr. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Mr. Shyam Gopal, Adv. Mrs. Apoorv Kurup, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Mr. Siddhant Kohli, Adv. Mrs. Shradha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Prahlad Singh, Adv.
  • Mr. Anuj Saxena, Adv. Mr. Prateek Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anuj Ruhela, Adv. Mr. Shubham Sagar, Adv. Ms. Mahek Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. Birinder Pal, Adv. Mr. Satpal Singh, AOR Ms. A. Sumathi, AOR
  • Ms. Indira Jai Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Deepak Jain, Adv. Mr. K.b.pradeep, Adv. Mr. R.ramesh, Adv. Ms. Jaspreet Aulakh, Adv. Mr. Tanpreet Gulati, Adv. Mr. Paras Nath Singh, Adv.
  • Ms. Anoushka Singh, Adv.
  • Mr. Chandra Bhushan Prasad, AOR Ms. Rohini Wagh, Adv.
  • Mr. P.S. Patwalia,, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mr. Akshay C. Shrivastava, Adv. Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Adv.
• Mr. Sudarshan Rajan, AOR Mr. Mahesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Gupta, Adv. Mr. Hitain Bajaj, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR
  • Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR

Mr. Sunil Fernandes, AOR Ms. Swati Vaibhav, AOR Mr. Shreyas Gacche, Adv. Mr. B.H. Marlapalle, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashok K. Mahajan, AOR Mr. Ajeet Wagh, Adv. Mr. Ramnesh Kumar Thakur, Adv. Mr. Avinish Kumar Saurabh, Adv. Mr. Yogesh A., Adv. Mr. Shantanu Krishna, AOR Ms. Indira Jai Singh, Sr. Adv. Dr. K.S.chauhan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ajit Kumar Ekka, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Malik, Adv. Mr. S.p. Singh, Adv. Ms. Vagisha Nandini, Adv. Mr. Rsm Kalki, Adv. Mr. Ravi Prakash, AOR Mr. Ajit Kumar, Adv. Dr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv. Ms. Vaidehi Kothari, Adv. Mr. Varun Kumar Adv. Mr. Sanjay Hegde, Sr. Adv. Ms. Mrinal Gopal Elker, AOR Mr. K.M. Natraj. ASG Mr. Saurabh Mishra, A.A.G. Mrs. Mrinal Elker Mazumdar, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Verma, Adv. Mr. Paras Nath Singh, Adv. Mr. Ajit Kumar Ekka, AOR Mr. Murari Lal, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Satya Prakash Gautam, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Alok Kumar, Adv. Mr. S.p. Singh, Adv. Mr. Ravi Prakash, Adv. Mr. Ravi Parkash, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Sandeep Malik, Adv. Mr. R.s.m. Kalky, Adv. Dr. Elumalai, Adv. Mr. Sumit Kishore, Adv. Dr. K. Elumalai, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Adv. Mrs. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. R Bala, Adv. Ms. N. Annapoorani, AOR Ms. Amita Singh Kalkal, AOR Mr. Abhay Kumar, AOR Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, AOR Mr. Vishwa Pal Singh, AOR Mr. R. C. Kaushik, AOR Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Adv. Ms. Yamini Sharma, Adv. Ms. Niharika Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Shweta Sand, Adv. Mr. Narendra Pal Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Adv. Mr. Mohan Pandey, AOR Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Ms. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR Mr. B. Sridhar, AOR Mrs. Lalita Kaushik, AOR Mr. Santosh Kumar Pandey, AOR

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Mr. R. Bala, Sr. Adv. Mr. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Mr. Shyam Gopal, Adv. Mr. Apoorva Kurup, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Mr. Siddhant Kohli, Adv. Mrs. Suhashini Sen, 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. Mrs. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mr. Kuldip Singh, AOR Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mrs. Rani Chhabra, AOR Mr. M. K. Dua, AOR Mr. Namit Saxena, Adv. Mr. Sudhanshu Chandra, Adv. Mr. P. V. Dinesh, AOR Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Ms. Kirti Dadheech, Adv. Mr. Praveen Jain, AOR Mr. Hrishikesh Baruah, AOR Mr. Kumar Kshitij, Adv. Mrs. Rekha Pandey, AOR

Mr. Suyash Mohan Guru, Adv.

Mr. Amol Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Raghav Pandey, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Puneet Jain, Adv. Ms. Christi Jain, AOR Mr. Umang Mehta, Adv. Mr. Yogit Kamat, Adv. Ms. Shruti Singh, Adv. Ms. Akriti Sharma, Adv. Respondent-in-person Mr. Devashish Bharuka, AOR Ms. Indira Jai Singh Sr.advocate, Adv. Mr. Deepak Jain, Adv. Mr. K.b.pradeep, Adv. Ms. Jaspreet Aulakh, Adv. Mr. Tanpreet Gulati, Adv. Mr. Paras Nathan Singh, Adv. Ms. Anoushka Singh, Adv. Mr. R.ramesh, Adv. Ms. A.sumathi Aor, Adv. Ms. Indira Jai Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Paras Nath Singh, Adv. Ms. A. Sumathi, AOR M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kumar Parimal, Adv. Mr. Pawan Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Smarhar Singh, AOR Mr. Himanshu Gupta, Adv. Mr. Manoj C. Mishra, AOR Dr. K.s. Chauhan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ajit Kumar Ekka, AOR Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Murari Lal, Adv. Mr. S.p. Singh, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar, Adv. Mr. R.s.m. Kalky, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Dr. K. Elumalai, Adv. Mr. Aldanish Rein, AOR Mr. P. N. Puri, AOR Mrs. Reeta Dewan Puri, Adv. Mr. Manish Dhingra, Adv.

Mrs. Tanuj Bagga Sharma, AOR Dr. M.k Ravi, Adv. Ms. Alka Goyal, Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Ms. Parul Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Bishan Dass, Adv. Mr. Dharam Pal Saini, Adv. Mr. Bikash Chandra, Adv. Mr. R.S. Mishra, Adv. Mata Prasad Singh, Adv. Ms. Ranjana R. Singh, Adv. Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR Shri. Gaichangpou Gangmei, AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Ms. Shashi Kiran, AOR Mr. Satpal Singh, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Mr.I.H. Syed, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abid Ali Beeran P, AOR Mr. Sarath S. Janardan, Adv. Mr. Avinash Kumar Bharti, Adv. Mr. Ram Kishor Choudhary, Adv. Dr. K.s. Chauhan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ajit Kumar Ekka, AOR Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Murari Lal, Adv. Mr. S.p. Singh, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar, Adv. Mr. R.s.m. Kalky, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Dr. K. Elumalai, Adv. Mr. Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure, AOR Ms. Sumita Hazarika, AOR Mr. Senthil Jagadeesan, AOR Ms. Sonakshi Malhan, Adv. Mr. Sajal Jain, Adv.

Mr. Shiwam Singh, Adv. Mr. Yasharth Kant, AOR Mr. Anupam Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Vishal Gupta, AOR Mr. Gopal Shankarnarayanan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Lal Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Shobit Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Umesh Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Vishal Singh, Adv. Mr. Arjun Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Bhaskar Aditya, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. Mrigank Prabhakar, AOR Intervenor-in-person, AOR Mr. Anilendra Pandey, AOR Mr. Ashok Kumar Sharma, Sr. Adv. Mr. Saket Sikri, Adv. Mr. Kshitij Mudgal, Adv. Mr. Vikalp Mudgal, AOR

Mr. M. Gireesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ankur S. Kulkarni, AOR Ms. Puspita Basak, Adv.

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

Re-list for final hearing and disposal in the week commencing 17th July, 2023. The matters would be taken on day to day hearing.

Interim order in all the matters will continue.

In the meanwhile, it will be open to the authorities to undertake the exercise in terms of the judgment of this Court passed in Civil Appeal No. 629 of 2022 titled "Jarnail Singh and Ors. Vs. Lachhmi Narain Gupta and Ors.", (2022) 10 SCC 595 and file a status report before this Court with data and particulars.

A copy of the report would be served on the learned counsel for the opposite parties/side and other parties to the proceedings, who would be at liberty to file their response within 21 days of service.

The learned counsel for the parties will file written submissions not exceeding five pages within a period of eight weeks.

Response to the written submissions, if any, may be filed within eight weeks' after service of the written submissions.

**In SLP(C) No. 22793/2022, it is the contention of the respondent that the petitioner authorities are not making promotion in terms of the directions given in the judgment passed by this Court in Civil Appeal No. 629 of 2022 titled "**Jarnail Singh and Ors. Vs. Lachhmi Narain Gupta and Ors." (2022) 10 SCC 595.

The learned counsel for the petitioner would obtain instruction in this regard and file an affidavit within a period of eight weeks from today. Response if any may be filed within six weeks of the service of the affidavit.

(BABITA PANDEY) COURT MASTER (SH)

(R.S. NARAYANAN) COURT MASTER (NSH)

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