Union Of India vs. Swatch Group (India) Pvt. Ltd

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SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Civil Appeal No(s). 6142/2019

UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

VERSUS

ASPAM PETROCHEM PVT. LTD.

WITH

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COURT NO.3

Appellant(s)

Respondent $(s)$

C.A. No. 6143/2019 (XIV-A) C.A. No. 6148/2019 (XII) IA No. 155223/2018 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING) C.A. No. 6248/2019 (XIV-A) C.A. No. 6160/2019 (XIV-A) C.A. No. 8828/2016 (XIV-A) C.A. No. 9406/2016 (XIV-A) C.A. No. 9315/2016 (XIV-A) C.A. No. 10140/2016 (XIV-A) C.A. No. 9436/2016 (XIV-A) C.A. No. 9317/2016 (XIV-A) C.A. No. 10012/2016 (XIV-A) C.A. No. 10422/2016 (XIV-A) IA No. 7498/2018 - EARLY HEARING APPLICATION IA No. 25281/2019 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) SLP(C) No. 1513/2022 (IV-B) IA No. 13845/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 35345/2022 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION IA No. 35341/2022 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION IA No. 13846/2022 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) C.A. No. 1738/2021 (XVII-A) IA No. 59869/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 59870/2021 - STAY APPLICATION) C.A. No. 2666-2695/2020 (SCANNING CELL) IA No. 35065/2020 - EX-PARTE STAY IA No. 39070/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) C.A. No. 1793/2021 (XVII-A) IA No. 63133/2021 - STAY APPLICATION) C.A. No. 2677-2680/2022 (XVII-A) IA No. 50010/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT

IA No. 50009/2022 - STAY APPLICATION) C.A. No. 2367-2368/2022 (XVII-A) IA No. 43424/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 43423/2022 - STAY APPLICATION) SLP(C) No. 2504/2022 (IV-B) IA No. 23052/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT IA No. 23051/2022 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) SLP(C) No.8416/2022 (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.68117/2022-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT ) Date : 09-05-2022 These matters were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.M. KHANWILKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ABHAY S. OKA For Parties Mr. K.K.Venugopal AG Mr. Tushar Mehta SG Mr. N.Venkataraman ASG Mr. Arijit Prasad Sr. Adv Mr. M.K.Maroria AOR Mr. Ankur Talwar Adv Mr. Siddhant Kohli Adv Mr. S.K. Singhania Adv Ms. Chinmayee Chandra Adv Mr. P.V.Yogeswaran Adv Ms. Nisha Bagchi Adv Ms. Praveena Gautam Adv Mr. Ashok Panigrahi, Adv. Mr. Arijit Prasad, Adv. Mr. Rupesh kumar, Adv. Mr. Manish, Adv. Mr. Aniruddha Purushottam, Adv. Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Arshad Hidayatullah, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rupesh Kumar, AOR Ms. Shailaja Kher, Adv. Ms. Neelam Sharma, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pankhuri Sharma, Adv. Mr. Vikram Choudhari, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ram Krishna, Adv. Mr. Nitish Massey, AOR

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Mr. R K Sanghi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ishan Sanshi, Adv. Mr. Shariq Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Tariq Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Purvish Jitendra Malkan, AOR Mr. Alok Kumar, Adv. Ms. Dharita Purvish Malkan, Adv. Ms. Deepa Gosasia, Adv. Ms. Nandini Chhabra, Adv. Ms. Bhavna Sarkar, Adv. Mr. V. Lakshmikumaran, Adv. Mr. Aditya Bhattacharya, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Matta, Adv. Ms. Apeksha Mehta, Adv. Ms. Mounica Kasturi, Adv. Ms. Charanya Lakshmikumaran, AOR Mr. Shekhar Vyas, Adv. Mr. Senthil Jagadeesan, AOR Ms. Sonakshi Malhan, Adv. Ms. Remya Raj, Adv. Mr. Sajal Jain, Adv. Ms. Sharmila Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, AOR Ms. Sucheta Joshi, Adv. Ms. Himadri Haksar, Adv. Ms. Medhavi Mishra, Adv. Ms. Shobha Ramamoorthy, AOR Mr. Shilp Vinod, Adv. Mr. H. A. Karthik, Adv. Mr. R. Santhanam, Adv. Mr. Arjun Prasad Sinha, Adv. Mr. Brajesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Nikhil Jain, AOR Ms. Rashi Bansal, AOR Mr. Rupesh Kumar, AOR Ms. Pooja Dhar, AOR Mr. Arihant Jain, Adv. Mr. Pratul Pratap Singh, Adv.

Mr. Manoj Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Zafar Khurshid, Adv. Mr. Shryank Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Vikramaditya Singh, AOR Mr. Sujay Chhikara, Adv. Mr. AR Madhav Rao, Adv. Mr. Tushar Joshi, Adv. Mr. Mukunda Rao, Adv. Mr. Siddhant Buxy, AOR Mr. Ashok K. Mahajan, AOR Mr. Rajeev Singh, AOR Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, AOR Mr. M. P. Devanath, AOR Mr. Rajiv K. Garg., Adv. Mr. Ashish Garg, Adv. Mr. T. L. Garg, AOR Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chaurasia, AOR Mr. Sujeet Kumar, Adv. Mr. Onkar Prasad, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Tomar, Adv. Mr. Anurag Jain, Adv. Mr. Dilip Kumar, Adv. Mrs. Nanda Devi Deka, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Chaurasia, Adv.

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

Learned counsel for the appellant(s) has invited our attention to the recent amendment vide the Finance Act, 2022, which come into effect from 30.03.2022, in particular, clause 97, which in effect validates all the previous actions, including the ones referred to in the present set of cases.

Learned counsel for the respondent(s) submit

that the respondent(s) have been advised to challenge the validity of the amendment. For that purpose, respondent(s) are given time till 11th July, 2022.

List these matters on 18th July, 2022 along with the proposed writ petition, to be filed by the respondent(s) for further consideration.

An advance copy of the proposed writ petition be served on the Standing Counsel for the Central Agency, who in turn may file response to the said petition before the next date of hearing through e-filing or physically.

(NEETU KHAJURIA) COURT MASTER

(VIDYA NEGI) COURT MASTER