Star India Private Limited vs. Department Of Industrial Policy And Promotion

ITEM NOS.31+38 COURT NO.6 SECTION XII 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 (C) No(s). 14336/2017

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 28/04/2017 in WMP No. 10619/2017 28/04/2017 in WP No. 44126/2016 passed by the High Court Of Madras)

STAR INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

DEPT. OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND PROMOTION AND ORS Respondent(s)

(with interim relief and office report) WITH SLP (C) NO. 14464/2017 (with interim relief and office report) WITH (Appln. (s) for intervention)

Date : 08/05/2017 These petitions were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ROHINTON FALI NARIMAN

Counsel for parties:-

Mr. P. Chidambaram, Sr. Adv. Dr. A.M. Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Gopal Jain, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sai Rajagopal, Adv. Ms. Ruby Singh Ahuja, Adv. Mr. R.N. Karanjawala, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Chopra, Adv. Ms. Aakanksha Munjhal, Adv. Ms. Sneha Jain, Adv. Ms. Deepti Sarin, Adv. Mr. Utsav Trivedi, Adv. Mr. Arvind Chari, Adv. Mr. Avishkar Singhvi, Adv. Mrs. Manik Karanjawala, Adv. For M/s. Karanjawala & Co. Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Navin Chawla, AOR Mr. Adivya V. Singh, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv.

Mr. Kirtiman Singh, Adv. Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv. Mr. Amit Sibal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhishek Malhotra, Adv. Ms. Liz Mathew, Adv. Mr. S.N.Deep S. Ladda, Adv. Mr. Soumik Ghosal, Adv. Mr. Devender Singh, Adv.

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

We have heard learned Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioners and Mr. Tushar Mehta, learned Additional Solicitor General appearing for the respondents at length.

Applications for intervention are allowed.

During the course of hearing, we have been informed by the learned counsel for the parties that the matters have been fixed for final hearing before the Madras High Court on 12.06.2017.

We do not intend to pass any order on these Special Leave Petitions except requesting the High Court to hear out the matters in question on day-to-day basis and to conclude the same and deliver the judgment, if possible, within a period of one month.

Status quo order already passed by the High Court on 23.12.2016 shall continue to operate till the matter is finally disposed of.

The Special Leave Petitions are disposed of in the above terms.

(R. NATARAJAN) (SNEH LATA SHARMA) Court Master Court Master

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