Sunil Prabhu vs. Speaker

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ITEM NO.501 COURT NO.1 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 (Civil) No.493/2022

SUBHASH DESAI Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, GOVERNOR OF Respondent(s) MAHARASHTRA & ORS.

(With IA No.92215/2022-STAY APPLICATION and IA No.92217/2022- EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. and IA No.92216/2022-PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES, IA No.101777/2022 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No.100297/2022 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No.108739/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 92217/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No.101776/2022 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.92216/2022 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES and IA No.92215/2022 - STAY APPLICATION)

WITH W.P.(C) No.469/2022 (X)

(With IA No.88601/2022-STAY APPLICATION and IA No.88602/2022- EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. and IA No.88964/2022-APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No.88964/2022 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 88602/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 89960/2022 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION and IA No. 88601/2022 - STAY APPLICATION)

W.P.(C) No.468/2022 (X)

(With IA No.88604/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. and IA No.88603/2022 - STAY APPLICATION)

W.P.(C) No.479/2022 (X)

(With IA No.90188/2022 - EX-PARTE STAY and IA No.90189/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.)

W.P.(C) No.470/2022 (X)

(With IA No.88697/2022 - EX-PARTE STAY)

W.P.(C) No.538/2022 (X)

(With IA No.100285/2022 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No.98578/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. and IA No.98577/2022 - Digitally signed by STAY APPLICATION) CHETAN KUMAR Signature Not Verified

Date: 2023.02.21 16:17:50 IST Reason:

Date : 16-02-2023 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.R. SHAH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KRISHNA MURARI HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE HIMA KOHLI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA

For Petitioner(s)

Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Devadatt Kamat, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, Adv.<br>Mr. Rohit Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv.<br>Mr. Javedur Rahman, Adv.<br>Mr. Nizam Pasha, Adv.<br>Mr. Anish R. Shah, AOR<br>Mr. Harsh Pandey, Adv.<br>Mr. Revanta Solanki, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Bhandari, Adv.<br>Mr. Sunny Jain, Adv.<br>Mr. Nishant Patil, Adv.<br>Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv.<br>Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv.<br>Ms. Aparajita Jamwal, Adv.

WPC 469/2022

Mr. Harish Salve, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Mahesh Jethmalani, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Malvika Trived, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Chirag J Shah, Adv.<br>Mr. Utsav Trivedi, Adv.<br>Mr. Ravi Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Nihar Thackeray, Adv.<br>Mr. Himanshu Sachdeva, Adv.<br>Ms. Manini Roy, Adv.<br>Ms. Shivani Bhushan, Adv.

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Mr. Piyush Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Kanjani Sharma, Adv. Ms. Chaitali Jugran, Adv. Ms. Mugdha Pande, Adv. Mr. Ajay Awasthi, Adv. Ms. Srishti Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kumar Sumit, Adv. Mr. Wedo Khalo, Adv. Ms. Ira Mahajan, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv. Mr. Prabhas Bajaj, Adv. Mr. Navneet R, Adv. Mr. Aditya Sidhra, Adv. Ms. Prachita Kar, Adv. Mr. Nadeem Afroz, Adv. Ms. Sujal Gupta, Adv. M/s. TAS Law WPC 468/2022 Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv. Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, AOR Mr. Prabhas Bajaj, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pracheta Kar, Adv. Mr. Aditya Sidhra, Adv. Ms. Aarzoo Aneja, Adv. Ms. Ira Mahajan, Adv. Mr. Toshiv Goyal, Adv. Mr. Raghav Agrawal, Adv. Ms. Shreya Saxena, Adv. Ms. Yamini Singh, Adv. Mr. Ajay Sabharwal, Adv. Ms. Manmeet Kaur Sareen, Adv. WPC 479/2022, Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. WPC 470/2022 & Mr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sr. Adv. WPC 538/2022 Mr. Devadatt Kamat, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rohit Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Javedur Rahman, AOR Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv. Mr. Sunny Jain, Adv.

	Mr. Amit Bhandari, Adv.<br>Mr. Nizam Pasha, Adv.<br>Mr. Harsh Pandey, Adv.<br>Mr. Revanta Solanki, Adv.<br>Ms. Aparajita Jamwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Nikhil Purohit, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashok Kumar, Adv.<br>Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv.<br>Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv.<br>Mr. Siddharth Seem, Adv.<br>Mr. L. Nidhiram Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Aman Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashima Chauhan Singh, Adv.
	Mr. Mudassir, Adv.
For Respondent(s)	Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG<br>Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv.<br>Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Adv.<br>Mr. Digvijay Dam, Adv.<br>Mr. Madhav Sinhal, Adv.<br>Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Kartikay Aggarwal, Adv.
	Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR<br>Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv.<br>Ms. Kirti Dadheech, Adv.<br>Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv.
WPC 493/2022	Mr. Harish Salve, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Mahesh Jethmalani, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Malvika Trivedi, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Chirag J Shah, Adv.<br>Mr. Utsav Trivedi, Adv.<br>Mr. Ravi Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Nihar Thackeray, Adv.<br>Mr. Himanshu Sachdeva, Adv.<br>Ms. Manini Roy, Adv.<br>Ms. Shivani Bhushan, Adv.<br>Mr. Piyush Tiwari, Adv.<br>Ms. Kanjani Sharma, Adv.

	Ms. Chaitali Jugran, Adv.<br>Ms. Mugdha Pande, Adv.<br>Mr. Ajay Awasthi, Adv.<br>Ms. Srishti Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Kumar Sumit, Adv.<br>Mr. Prabhas Bajaj, Adv.<br>Mr. Navneet R, Adv.<br>Mr. Wedo Khalo, Adv.<br>Ms. Ira Mahajan, Adv.<br>Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Aditya Sidhra, Adv.<br>Ms. Pracheta Kar, Adv.<br>Mr. Nadeem Afroz, Adv.<br>Ms. Sujal Gupta, Adv.<br>M/s. TAS Law
WPC 493/2022	Mr. Ankit Yadav, AOR<br>Ms. Prakriti Rastogi, Adv.
WPC 493/2022,	Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv.
WPC 479/2022 &	Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Adv.
WPC 538/2022	Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv.
	Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, AOR
	Mr. Prabhas Bajaj, Adv.
	Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv.
	Ms. Pracheta Kar, Adv.
	Mr. Aditya Sidhra, Adv.
	Ms. Aarzoo Aneja, Adv.
	Ms. Ira Mahajan, Adv.
	Mr. Toshiv Goyal, Adv.
	Mr. Raghav Agrawal, Adv.
	Ms. Shreya Saxena, Adv.
	Ms. Yamini Singh, Adv.
	Mr. Ajay Sabharwal, Adv.
	Ms. Manmeet Kaur Sareen, Adv.
WPC 493/2022,	Mr. Pai Amit, AOR
WPC 469/2022 &	Mr. Abhiyudaya Vats, Adv.
WPC 468/2022	Ms. Pankhuri Bhardwaj, Adv.
	Ms. Bhavana Duhoon, Adv.
	Ms. Ranu Purohit, Adv.

WPC 469/2022		Ms. Astha Prasad, AOR<br>Ms. Rukhmini Bobde, Adv.<br>Ms. Trishala Trivedi, Adv.<br>Mr. Ankit Ambasta, Adv.
WPC 469/2022 &<br>WPC 468/2022		Mr. Javedur Rahman, AOR
WPC 469/2022		Mr. Kailash Prashad Pandey, AOR<br>Mr. Mahendra Kawchale, Adv.<br>Mr. Vijay Pal, Adv.<br>Mr. Pramod Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Kundal Lal, Adv.<br>Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Umang Tripathi, Adv.<br>Mr. Deepankar, Adv.<br>Mr. Vinay Kumar Aherodiya, Adv.<br>Ms. Kajal Kumari, Adv.<br>Mr. Mahendra Kumar, Adv.<br>Ms. Sundri, Adv.<br>Mr. Om Prakash, Adv.
WPC 469/2022		Mr. Asim Sarode, Adv.<br>Ms. Shriya Awale, Adv.<br>Ms. Smitasingalkar, Adv.<br>Mr. Pradeep Kumar Gupta, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashok Kumar Gupta II, AOR
WPC 479/2022		Dr. A.P. Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. V.P. Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Richa Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Geeta Chauhan, Adv.<br>Ms. Pratima Rani, Adv.<br>Mr. Sadashiv, AOR
WPC 470/2022		Mr. T.R.B. Sivakumar, AOR<br>Mr. Shreyas Gacche, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajsaheb Patil, Adv.<br>Ms. Supriya Wankhede, Adv.
WPC 470/2022		Mr. Raj Singh Rana, AOR<br>Dr. Gunratan Sadavarte, Adv.<br>Mr. Pankaj Kumar Singh, Adv.

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Mr. Pawan Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mr. S.C. Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Belsare, Adv.

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

• 1 We have heard Mr Kapil Sibal, Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Mr Devadatt Kamat, senior counsel on one side and Mr Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General of India, Mr Harish Salve, Mr Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Mr Maninder Singh, Mr Mahesh Jethmalani and Mr Siddharth Bhatnagar, senior counsel for the other side.
• 2 Arguments have been addressed before this Court only on the question as to whether the decision in Nabam Rebia and Bamang Felix vs Deputy Speaker, Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly and Others [(2016) 8 SCC 1] requires to be considered by a larger Bench.
• 3 Arguments are concluded on the above aspect.
• 4 Orders reserved.

(CHETAN KUMAR) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR) A.R.-cum-P.S. Assistant Registrar