Union Of India vs. Inder Kumar

ITEM NO. 1501

Court 5 (Video Conferencing) SECTION IV-B

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No(s). 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 & Haryana At Chandigarh)

JARNAIL SINGH & ORS.

Petitioner(s)

Respondent(s)

VERSUS

LACHHMI NARAIN GUPTA & ORS.

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JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 7332/2020 (IV-C) SLP(C) No. 6834/2020 (IV-C) SLP(C) No. 8066/2020 (IV-B) (IA No. 80481/2020 - APPLICATION FOR RECTIFICATION IA No. 101780/2020 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION IA No. 101783/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 58594/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 58592/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF DATES) SLP(C) No. 8588/2020 (IV-B) SLP(C) No. 15749/2020 (IV-B) (IA No. 134305/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 134306/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES) SLP(C) No. 15148/2020 (XVII) (IA No. 130265/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 639/2021 (XVII) SLP(C) No. 3684/2021 (XVII) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 200-201/2021 in SLP(C) No. 5724-5725/2019 (XIV) (IA No. 78372/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 72805/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 211-212/2021 in C.A. No. 5247/2016 (IV-C) (IA No. 28167/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) 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) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 378-379/2021 in C.A. No. 11837-11840/2016 (IV-C) (IA No. 70703/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) Date : 28-01-2022 These matters were called on for pronouncement of judgment today. For the parties : UOI Mr. K.K.Venugopal, Ld. AG Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, Ld. ASG Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, Adv Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv

Mr. Siddharth Kohli, Adv Mr. Apoorva Kurup, Adv Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker,AOR Mr. M.K.Maroria, AOR Mr. A. K. Sharma AOR Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. B.V. Balaram Das, AOR Mr A Mariarputham, Sr Adv Mr. Avneesh Arputham, AOR M/s.Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR Mr. Pratik R. Bombarde, AOR Mr. Pradeep S. Wathore, Adv Mr. Devendra Kumar, Adv Mr. Abhishek Kumar,Adv Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, AoR Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi,Adv. Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Adv. Ms. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akshay C. Shrivastava, Adv. Ms. Prerna Mehta, AOR Ms. Shreyas Gacche, Adv Ms. Swati Vaibhav, AOR Dr. Gunratan Sadavarte Adv. Dr. Jay Shree Patil, Adv. Mr. Raj Singh Rana AOR Mr. Pankaj Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Kamal Kumar Pandey Adv Mr. Rakesh Kumar Mudgal, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Kumar Mudgal, Adv. Mr. Satpal Singh AOR Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, AOR Mr. Smarhar Singh, AOR Ms. Shweta Kumari, Adv

Dr. Menaka Gurusamy, Sr., Adv.

Mr. Prashant R. Dahat, Adv. Mr. Sangharaj D.Rupwate, Adv. Mr. Vijay Nirbhavane, Adv. Mr. Akash Moon, Adv. Ms. Smita Kamble, Adv. Ms. Shraddha Vavhal, Adv. Mr. Yash S Vijay, Adv Ms. Rayavarapu Aishwarya Devi, Adv Mr. Puneet Yadav, Adv. Mr. Sourabh Gupta, Adv. Mr. T. R. B. Sivakumar, AOR Mr. R.D. Agrawala, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Mathur,AOR Mr. Chiranjeev Johri, Adv. Mr. Sameer Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde, Sr. Adv Mr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv. Ms. Gaganpreet Singh Chawla, Adv. Ms. Priyal Suryavanshi, Adv. M/s Gorkela Law Office, AOR. Mr. Rupinder Singh Suri, Ld. ASG Mr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv. Mr. Aditya Giri, Adv Ms. Nikita Capoor, Adv Ms. Priyal Suryavanshi, Adv Ms. Gaganpreet Singh Chawla, Adv. M/s Gorkela Law Office, AOR Mr. Ranjit Kumar, Sr. Adv Mr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv. Ms. Gaganpreet Singh Chawla, Adv. M/S.Gorkela Law Office, AOR Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv Mr. Shivendra Singh, Adv Gaganpreet Singh Chawla, Adv. M/s Gorkela Law Office, AOR Mr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv. Gagandeep Singh Chawla, Adv. Ms. Priyal Suryawanshi, Adv M/s Gorkela Law Office, AOR Mr. Nidhesh Gupta, Sr. Adv Mr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv. Ms. Gaganpreet Singh Chawla, Adv Ms. Priyal Suryavanshi, Adv M/s Gorkela Law Office, AOR

Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Kabir Shankar Bose, Adv. Mr. Ishaan Borthakaur, Adv Ms. Indira Jaising, Sr. Adv. Mr. Deepak Jain, Adv. Mr. K.B. Pradeep, Adv. Ms. Jaspreet Aulakh, Adv Mr. Tanpreet Gulati, Adv. Ms. A. Sumathi, AOR Mr. Rajeev Dhavan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Atul Yeshwant Chitale, Sr. Adv. Ms. Tanvi Kakar, Adv Mr. Atulesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Saurabh Mishra, AAG Mr. Mrinal Elker Mazumdar ,AOR Mr. Vansaja Shukla, Adv Mr. Manish Yadav, Adv Ms. Soumya Chakraborty, Sr Adv Mr. Shobhit Tiwari, Adv Mr. Lal Pratap Singh, Adv Mr. Umesh Pratap Singh Adv Mr. Arjun Aggarwal Adv Mr. Bhaskar Aditya Adv Mr. Gaurav Kejriwal, AOR Mr. Chandra Bhushan Prasad, AOR Ms. N. Annapoorani, AOR Mr.Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure, AOR Mr.Sidheshwar Namdev Biradar, Adv. Mr.Yash Prashant Sonavane,Adv. Mr.Sagar N.Pahune Patil, Adv. Ms.Sangeeta Sagar Pahune-Patil,Adv. Mr.Yogesh Ramesh Joshi, Adv. Ms.Sakshi Ajit Kale, Adv. Mr.Digvijay Shivaji Kachare, Adv Ms. Suchitra Atul Chitale, AOR Ms. Nalini Chidambaram, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vikas Mehta, AOR Dr. Sukhdev Sharma,Adv Dr. Shivani Gambhir,Adv Mr. J.B.Mudgil,Adv

Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Adv Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr.Adv. Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Mr. Suyash Guru, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR Mr. Vinod Diwakar, AAG (State of U.P.) Ms. Alka Sinha, Adv. Mr. B.N. Dubey, Adv. Mr. Anuvrat Sharma, AOR Mr. Basant Kumar Choudhary,Sr. Adv Mr. Dinesh Dwivedi, Sr Adv Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv. Mr. Chandan Kumar, Adv Mr. Rituraj Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Mayan Prasad,Adv. Ms. Sujaya Bardhan, Adv. Mr. P. Soma Sundaram, AOR Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR Mr. Manoj Ranjan Sinha, Adv Mr. Santosh Kumar Pandey, AOR Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR Mr. Suhaas Ratna Joshi, AOR Mr. Suyash Mohan Guru, Adv Mr. Amol Shrivasta, Adv Mr. Vardhman Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Lalita Kaushik, AOR Mr. Praveen Jain, AOR Mr. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, AOR Ms. Kanishka Prasad Adv. Mr. Ibad Mushtaq, Adv. Ms. Akanksha Rai,Adv. Mr. Gopal Shankar Narayan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shobhit Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Lal Pratap Singh Adv. Mr. Umesh Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Arjun Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Bhaskar Aditya, Adv.

Mr. Vishal Singh, Adv. Mr. Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj, Adv. Ms. Shivani Vij, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. M. L. Lahoty, Adv. Mr. Paban K Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anchit Sripat, Adv. Mr. Pranab Kumar Nayak, Adv. Mr. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. Himanshu Gupta, Adv Mr. Manoj C. Mishra, AOR Ms. Rekha Pandey, AOR Mr. L.C.Patne, Adv Mr. Raghav Pandey, Adv Mr. Aldanish Rein, AOR Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. D. Ramakrishna Reddy, Adv. Ms. D.Bharathi Reddy, AOR Mr. Mrigank Prabhakar, AOR Ms. Tanuj Bagga Sharma, AOR Mr. D.K. Goswami, Sr. Adv Mr. Saharsh Jauhari, Adv Mr. Kuldeep Singh, Adv Mr. Aditya Soni, AOR Mr. M. Gireesh Kumar, Adv Mr. Ankur S. Kulkarni, AOR Mr. Shivam Singh, Adv Mr. Yasharth Kant, AOR Mr. B.Karunakaran, Adv Mrs K. Balambihai Adv Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR Mr. Nitin Meshram, Adv. Mr. Sourabh Singh, Adv. Mr. Rishi Raj Singh, Adv. Mr. Ranbir Singh Yadav, AOR Mr. Senthil Jagadeesan, AOR Mr. Sudarshan Rajan, AOR

Mr. Mahesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Hiten Bajaj, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Rawat, Adv.

Mr. ADN Rao, Sr. Adv. Mr. Annam Venkatesh, AOR Mr. Rahul Mishra, Adv. Mr. K Lenin Devasahaya Vinober, Adv. Ms. Ananya Khandelwal, Adv. Ms. Agrimaa Singh, Adv. Ms. Sangeetha MR, Adv. Mr. D. Shiva Shankar, Adv. Mr. Vishal Gupta,AOR Mr. Abhay Kant Mishra,Adv. Mr. Avijit Bhattacharjee AOR Mr. Dinesh P.Rajbhar Adv Ms. Anzu.K.Varkey AOR Mr. Uday Gupta, Adv Ms. Shivani M. Lal, Adv Mr. Hiren Dasan, Adv Mr. M. K. Tripathi, Adv Mr. Harish Dasan, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Mohan Pandey, AOR Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Mr. Gaichangpou Gangmei, AOR Mr. Abhay Kumar, AOR Ms. Neetu Jain, Adv. Mr. Rajat Khattry, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Mishra, Adv. Mr. Kumar Milind, Adv. Mr. Shagun Ruhil, Adv. Mr. Vishal Nautiyal, Adv. Mr. Sachin Patil, AOR.

Mr. Rahul Chitnis, Adv. Mr. Akshay Shinde, Adv. Mr. Aaditya A. Pande, Adv. Mr. Geo Joseph, Adv. Ms. Shwetal Shepal, Adv. Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv. Mr. Zafar Inayat, Adv.

Mr. Abhishek Gupta, Adv. Mr. Namit Saxena, Adv Mr. P.V.Dinesh, AOR Mr. Vikalp Mudgal, AOR Mr. Kshitij Mudgal, Adv. Mr. Raj Kumar, Adv. Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr Adv Ms. Olivia Bang, Adv Ms. Disha Wadekar, Adv Mr. Nihal Sing Rathod, Adv Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Ms. K.Saradadevi, AOR Mr. R.Vijaynandan Reddy,Adv. Mr. Naresh Kaushik,Adv. Mr. Vardhman Kaushik AOR Mr. Manoj Joshi, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Joshi Adv. Mr. Prafful Saini, Adv. Mr. Nishant Gautam, Adv. Mr. B. Purushottama Reddy, Adv. Ms. Lalitha Kaushik,AOR Mr. Satyajit A. Desai, Adv. Mr. Satya Kam Sharma, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Gautam, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anagha S Desai, AOR Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari AOR Mr. Brajesh Pandey, Adv. Mr. Anilendra Pandey, AOR Mr. Ashok K Mahajan, AOR Ms. Amita Singh Kalkal, AOR Mr. K.K.L.Gautam, Adv. Mr. Chicalwar Rastrapal, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Suman,Adv. Mr. Manoj Sharma, Adv. Mr. Rahul Mohod, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Gurawa, Adv.

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Mr. Sandeep Kr. Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Raj, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Malhotra, AOR Mr. Gopal Jain Sr. Adv. Mr. Devashish Bharuka, AOR Ms. Sarvshree, Adv Mr. Justine George Adv. Mr Manas Syal Adv Ms. Indira Jaising, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sunil Fernandes, AOR. Ms. Nupur Kumar, Adv. Mr. Prastut Dalvi, Adv. Ms. Disha Wadekar, Adv. Mr. Paras Nath Singh, Adv. Ms. Ujjaini Chatterjee, Adv.

• Mr. Darpan Sachdeva, Adv.
• Mr. Shubham Sharma, Adv
• Ms. Indira Jaising, Sr. Adv. Dr. K.S. Chauhan, Sr. Adv Mr. Ajit Kumar Ekka, AOR Mr. Ravi Prakash, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv Mr. Ajit Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Vishwa Pal Singh, AOR Mr. Rajendra Prasad, Adv Miss. Pallavi, Adv Mr. Dinesh Kumar Mudgal, Adv Mr. Arihant Mehta, Adv Mr. Vikas Gothwal, Adv Mr. Sanjiv Saraf, Adv Mr. Praphul Kumar Vohra, Adv Mr. Prateek Rai, Adv

Ms. Kiran Suri, Sr.Adv. Mr. S.J. Amith, Adv Mr. Krishna Kumar, Adv. Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, AOR.

Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vijay Sharma, Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR

Mr. K.N.Rai, AOR

M/S.S.M. Jadhav And Company, AOR Ms. Shashi Kiran, AOR Dr. K.S. Chauhan, Sr. Adv Mr. M. Vijaya Bhaskar, AOR Mr. Murari Lal, Adv Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv Mr. K.C. Lamba, Adv Mr. Sumit Kishore, Adv Dr. K.S. Chauhan, Sr. Adv. Mr. M. Vijaya Bhaskar, AOR Mr. R.S.M. Kalky, Adv Mr. S.P. Singh, Adv Mr. Sunil Kumar, Adv Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gaya Prasd, Adv. Mr. Ravindra Kumar, Sr Adv Mr. Binay Kumar Das, AOR Ms. Priyanka Das, Adv Ms. Neha Das, Adv Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, AOR Mr. M. K. Bhardwaj, Adv Mr. Ashutosh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vedant Pardhan,Adv. Ms. Bano Deswal,Adv. Ms. Shweta Sharma, Adv. Mr. R. C. Kaushik, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kharde, Adv Ms. Chandan Ramamurthi, AOR Mr. D.K Garg Adv. Mr. Dhananjay Garg, AOR Mr. Abhishek Garg, Adv Mr. Pradeep Kumar Mathur, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Arvind S. Avhad, AOR Mr. Shantanu Krishna, AOR

Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR

Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR Mr. B. Sridhar, AOR Respondent-in-person Mr. Kuldip Singh, AOR Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Ravindra Kumar, AOR Mr. Hrishikesh Baruah, AOR Mr. M. C. Dhingra, AOR Mr. P. N. Puri, AOR Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra, AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. S. N. Bhat, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Mr. Ashok K. Mahajan, AOR Mr. K. N. Rai, AOR Mrs. K. Sarada Devi, AOR Mr. M. K. Dua, AOR

• Mr. Ravindra Kumar, Sr Adv Mr. Binay Kumar Das, AOR Ms. Priyanka Das, Adv Ms. Neha Das, Adv
• Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. Vardhman Kaushik , AOR Mr. P. V. Dinesh, AOR Mr. Rahul Kaushik, AOR Ms. Christi Jain, AOR Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Nikilesh Ramachandran, AOR Ms. Aswathi M.k., AOR Mr. Dinesh Rattan Bhardwaj, AOR

Hon'ble Mr. Justice L. Nageswara Rao pronounced the Judgment of the Bench comprising His Lordship, Hon'ble Mr. Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Hon'ble Mr. Justice B.R. Gavai.

Permission to appear and argue in person is granted.

Permission to file Petition is granted.

Delay condoned.

Leave granted (except Diary No.38895/2017).

The judgment inter alia reads as under :

".....we hold that the conclusion of this Court in B.K. Pavitra II (supra) approving the collection of data on the basis of 'groups' and not cadres is contrary to the law laid down by this Court in M. Nagaraj (supra) and Jarnail Singh (supra).

It is made clear that we have not expressed any opinion on the merits of any individual case as we have only answered the common issues that were formulated after hearing the parties.

List the matters on 24/2/2022 for further hearing."

(Geeta Ahuja) (Anand Prakash) Court Master Court Master (Signed Reportable Judgment is placed on the file)