Advocate Association Bengaluru vs. Anoop Kumar Mendiratta

ITEM NOS.1+28&28.1 Court 1(Video Conferencing) SECTION PILW/XIV

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

Writ Petition(Civil) No.856/2021

AMARJIT SINGH BEDI Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)

(FOR ADMISSION and IA No.93134/2021GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF & IA NO.98840/2021APPLN. SEEKING PERMISSION TO FILE ADDL.DOCUMENTS)

WITH SLP(C)NO. 10911/2021 (FOR ADMISSION AND I.R. AND I.A. NO.82822/2021EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT)

W.P.(C) No.775/2021 (FOR ADMISSION & I.R.)

Date : 16082021 These petitions were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIRUDDHA BOSE

For Petitioner(s)

Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. P. S. Sudheer, AOR Ms. Anne Mathew, Adv.

Mr. Nidhesh Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddharth R. Gupta, Adv. Mr. Mrigank Prabhakar, AOR Ms. Sakshi Banga, Adv. Mr. Yash Mittal, Adv.

Mr. Mahabir Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sunil Dalal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Amit Sahni, Adv. Ms. Preeti Singh, AOR Mr. Sunklan Porwal, Adv. Ms. Saumya Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Shubham Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Sonali Tiwary, Adv. Ms. Indira Goswami, Adv.

Ms. J.S. Sethi, Adv. For Respondent(s) Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. K.M. Nataraj, ASG (N.P.) Mr. Saurabh Mishra, Adv. Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Das, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Mr. B.V. Balaram Das, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR

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

The Court is convened through Video Conferencing.

Writ Petition(Civil) No.856/2021:

Heard learned Senior counsel counsel appearing for the petitioner.

Issue notice, returnable on 31st August, 2021.

Dasti service, in addition, is permitted.

Learned AdvocateonRecord appearing for the petitioner is directed to a serve a copy of the Writ Petition upon learned Solicitor General of India immediately.

SLP(C)NO. 10911/2021 & W.P.(C) No.775/2021:

Heard Mr. Nidhesh Gupta, learned Senior counsel appearing for the petitioner – State Bar Council of Madhya Pradesh and Mr. Tushar Mehta, learned Solicitor General appearing for the Union of India.

During the course of hearing, learned Solicitor General makes a Statement before us that the process for making appointments in various Tribunals has already started and Members in the Central Administrative Tribunal have in fact been appointed. He further assures us that appointments in other Tribunals would be made at the earliest.

Taking into consideration the said Statement made by the learned Solicitor General and as prayed by him seeking some time to

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do the needful in the matter, we are granting 10 days' time to him for the said purpose.

We make it clear that pendency of the Writ Petitions and Special Leave Petition before this Court shall not come in the way of the Union of India and/or taking an excuse by them for not processing/appointing Members in various Tribunals.

List the matters on 3182021.

(VISHAL ANAND) (R.S. NARAYANAN) ASTT. REGISTRARcumPS COURT MASTER (NSH)