Chhattisgarh Sponge Iron Manufacturers Association vs. Union Of India

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

Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No. 476/2020

SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURES ASSOCIATION (REGD.) Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)

(With IA No. 48979/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 104446/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 85474/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 53634/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 48982/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 131262/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 53633/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES)

WITH

Signature Not Verified

W.P.(C) No. 955/2020 (X) (With IA No. 49183/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 49047/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 49474/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 49184/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 52314/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 52312/2020 - GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF, IA No. 49473/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES)

W.P.(C) No. 506/2020 (X) (With IA No. 50900/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT)

W.P.(C) No. 542/2020 (X) (With IA No. 53113/2020 - APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING ORIGINAL VAKALATNAMA/OTHER DOCUMENT)

Diary No(s). 12389/2020 (X) (With IA No. 96798/2020 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION, IA No. 77610/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 104175/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 77611/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT,IA No. 52958/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 52957/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM PAYING COURT FEE)

W.P.(C) No. 568/2020 (X) Digitally signed by Nidhi Ahuja

⁽With IA No. 77422/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 54535/2020 - GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF, IA No. 84456/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) Date: 2020.12.16 18:45:11 IST Reason:

W.P.(C) No. 606/2020 (PIL-W) (With IA No. 64361/2020 - ADDITION / DELETION / MODIFICATION PARTIES, IA No. 57360/2020 - APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING ORIGINAL VAKALATNAMA/OTHER DOCUMENT, IA No. 57359/2020 - EX-PARTE STAY)

W.P.(C) No. 608/2020 (X) (With IA No. 97556/2020 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION,IA No. 96181/2020 – CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION,IA No. 57429/2020 - EX-PARTE STAY,IA No. 98012/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT,IA No. 57430/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT,IA No. 98009/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION)

W.P.(C) No. 711/2020 (X) (With IA No. 64944/2020 - EX-PARTE AD-INTERIM RELIEF, IA No. 72204/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 68134/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 64947/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 68133/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES)

W.P.(C) No. 785/2020 (X) (With IA No. 72058/2020 - EX-PARTE AD-INTERIM RELIEF, IA No. 104441/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT)

W.P.(C) No. 802/2020 (X) (With IA No. 73697/2020 - EX-PARTE STAY, IA No. 73698/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT)

W.P.(C) No. 829/2020 (X) (With IA No. 75256/2020 - EX-PARTE STAY, IA No. 75258/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT)

W.P.(C) No. 826/2020 (X) (With IA No. 75124/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 75123/2020 - STAY APPLICATION)

W.P.(C) No. 959/2020 (X) (With IA No. 83670/2020 - GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF)

W.P.(C) No. 945/2020 (PIL-W) (With IA No. 87453/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT,IA No. 82675/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT,IA No. 104055/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT,IA No. 88078/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM PAYING COURT FEE,IA No. 87452/2020 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT,IA No. 82674/2020 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON,IA No. 104054/2020 - SEEKING LEAVE TO FILE WRITTEN ARGUMENTS)

W.P.(C) No. 937/2020 (X) (FOR ADMISSION)

W.P.(C) No. 476/2020 etc.

W.P.(C) No. 964/2020 (X) (With IA No. 86035/2020 - AMENDMENT OF THE PETITION,IA No. 86039/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT,IA No. 83886/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT,IA No. 83882/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.)

W.P.(C) No. 1006/2020 (X) (With IA No. 87537/2020 - APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING ORIGINAL VAKALATNAMA/OTHER DOCUMENT,IA No. 101305/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT,IA No. 101304/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES)

W.P.(C) No. 1024/2020 (X) (With IA No. 88870/2020 - EX-PARTE STAY,IA No. 88873/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT)

W.P.(C) No. 1025/2020 (X) (With IA No. 88880/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 88879/2020 - STAY APPLICATION)

W.P.(C) No. 1029/2020 (X) (With IA No. 89164/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT)

W.P.(C) No. 1157/2020 (X) (With IA No. 101816/2020 - EX-PARTE STAY, IA No. 101817/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT)

W.P.(C) No. 1132/2020 (X) (With IA No. 99892/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT,IA No. 99894/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.,IA No. 99888/2020 - STAY APPLICATION)

W.P.(C) No. 1178/2020 (X) (With IA No. 103724/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT,IA No. 103726/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.,IA No. 103722/2020 - STAY APPLICATION)

W.P.(C) No. 1190/2020 (X) (With IA No. 111278/2020 – CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION,IA No. 104507/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT,IA No. 104500/2020 - GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF,IA No. 109895/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES)

Date : 16-12-2020 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ASHOK BHUSHAN HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.R. SHAH

For parties	Mr. Kunal Vajani, Adv.<br>Mr. Kunal Mimani, AOR<br>Mr. Shubhang Tandon, Adv.
	Mr. Abhimanyu Bhandari, Adv.<br>Ms. Roohe Hina Dua, AOR<br>Mr. Cheitanya Madan, Adv.
	Mr. Pranjal Kishore, Adv.<br>Mr. Atul Shankar Vinod, Adv.<br>Mr. Vijay Raghunathan, Adv.<br>Mr. Dinesh Balachandran, Adv.<br>Mr. M.P. Vinod, AOR
	Mr. Ashish Agarwal, Adv.<br>Ms. Shashi Kiran, AOR<br>Ms. Sangeeta Bhalla, Adv.<br>Ms. Kirti Sinha, Adv.<br>Mr. Arjun Chaudhary, Adv.
	Mr. Ashish Virmani, AOR<br>Mr. Himanshu Dhuper, Adv.
	Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Kunal Vajani, Adv.<br>Mr. Samit Shukla, Adv.<br>Mr. Manhar S.Saini, Adv.<br>Mr. Kunal Mimani, Adv.<br>Ms. Saloni Shah, Adv.<br>Ms. Shivani Khanwilkar, Adv.<br>Mr. Chandra Prakash, AOR
	Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG.<br>Mr. N Venkataraman, ASG<br>Mr. B V Balaram Das, AOR<br>Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.<br>Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv.
	Mr. Ravindra Shrivastava, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Ashish Shrivastava, Adv.<br>Mr. Anshuman Shrivastava, Adv.<br>Mr. Abhijeet Shrivastava, Adv.<br>Ms. Garima Tiwari, Adv.<br>Ms. Harneet Khanuja, Adv.<br>Mr. Arpit Jain, Adv.<br>Mr. B. Ramana Murthy, AOR
	Mr. Kumar Dushyant Singh, AOR<br>Mr. Devesh Chauvia, Adv.<br>Mr. Mukul Lather, Adv.

Ms. Pooja Singh, Adv. Ms. Swati Setia, AOR Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shashank Kunwar,Adv. Ms. Sonia Dube, Adv. Mr. Shatadru Chakraborty, Adv. Ms. Kanchan Yadav, Adv. Mr. Anurag Singh, Adv. Ms. Surbhi Anand, Adv. M/s. Legal Options. Mr. Anil Soni, Adv. Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR Mr. Utsav Trivedi, Adv. Mr. Chirag Shah, Ad.v Mr. Abhinay, Adv. Ms. Pragya Wal, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Sachdeva, Adv. Ms. Srishti Kumar, Adv. Ms. Astha Prasad, Adv. Mr. Govind Manoharan, Adv. Mr. A. Karthik, AOR Ms. Smrithi Suresh, Adv. Mr. Sarveshwar K., Adv. Ms. Anushka Pardikar, Adv. Mr. K. Rajeev, Adv. Mr. S. M. Vivekananda, Adv. Mr. A. Karthik, AOR Mr. Sarveshwar K., Adv. Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv. Mr. Shankh Sengupta, Adv. Ms. Tine Abraham, Adv. Ms. Chhavi Jain, Adv. Mr. Huzefa Ahmadi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Vijayesh Atri, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Rohan Sharma, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Rishi Agrawala, Adv. Mr. Vishrov Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Bhatia, Adv.

Mr. Ankit Banati, Adv. Mr. Ameya Mishra, Adv. Mr. Rohit Venkat, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Karan Luthra, Adv. Mr. Anshuman Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Ankit Banati, Adv. Mr. Aseem, Adv. Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Mr. V M Kannan, Adv. Mr. Sambit Panja, Adv. Mr. Harish Salve, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Mr. V M Kannan, Adv. Ms. Megha Karnwal,Adv Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. J. C. Lalnunsanga, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Sharma, AOR Mr. Dhawal Mohan, Adv Mr. Prateek Bhatia, Adv. Ms. Alankrita Sinha, Adv. Mr. Keshav Mohan, Adv. Mr. R. K. Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Piyush Vatas, Adv. Ms. Ritu Arora, Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar - I, AOR M/S. Lambat And Associates, AOR M/S. D.S.k. Legal, AOR Ms. Rooh-e-hina Dua, AOR Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR Mr. Abhinay, AOR M/S. Legal Options, AOR Ms. Shilpa Liza George, AOR

Mr. Gaurav Sharma, AOR

Petitioner-in-person

Mr. Ashish Virmani, AOR

Mr. A. Karthik, AOR

Mr. M. P. Vinod, AOR

Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR

Mr. Jinendra Jain, AOR

Ms. Shashi Kiran, AOR

Ms. Manjeet Kirpal, AOR

Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., AOR

Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, AOR

Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR

Mr. Abhigya Kushwah, AOR

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

Heard in part.

List the matters as part-heard on 17th December, 2020, at the end of the Board.

(NIDHI AHUJA) (RENU KAPOOR) AR-cum-PS BRANCH OFFICER