Chhattisgarh Sponge Iron Manufacturers Association vs. Union Of India

ITEM NO.40 Court 7 (Video Conferencing) SECTION X

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)

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W.P.(C) No. 955/2020 (X)

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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)

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W.P.(C) No. 568/2020 (X)

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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)

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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. 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 : 17-12-2020 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.

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Ms. Rooh-e-hina Dua, AOR Mr. Cheitanya Madan, Adv. Mr. Pranjal Kishore, Adv. Mr. Atul Shankar Vinod, Adv. Mr. Vijay Raghunathan, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Balachandran, Adv. Mr. M.P. Vinod, AOR Mr. Ashish Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Shashi Kiran, AOR Ms. Sangeeta Bhalla, Adv. Ms. Kirti Sinha, Adv. Mr. Arjun Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Ashish Virmani, AOR Mr. Himanshu Dhuper, Adv. Ms. Nishi Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Manjeet Kirpal, Adv. Mr. Yashartha Gupta, Adv. Mr. Chandra Prakash, AOR Mr. B V Balaram Das, AOR Mr. Ravindra Shrivastava, Sr. Adv. Mr. B. Ramana Murthy, AOR Mr. Kumar Dushyant Singh, AOR Mr. Devesh Chauvia, Adv. 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. A. Karthik, AOR 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. E. C. Agrawala, AOR 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 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. Manju Jetley, AOR Mr. Abhinay, AOR

Mr. Manoj V. George, Adv. Ms. Shilpa Liza George, AOR Ms. Bhavika, Adv. 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 Ms. Sunita Yadav, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Rajkumar Murarka, Adv. Ms. Anamika Kushwaha, Adv. Ms. Nandita Rao, Adv. Ms. Mahija Reddy, Adv. Mr. K. N. Agnihotri, Adv. Mr. Virender Arora, Adv.

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

Mr. Ravindra Srivastava, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner, concluded his rejoinder.

Arguments concluded.

Judgment reserved.

Written notes, if any, may be submitted within three days.

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