Union Of India And Anr. Ministry Of Home Affairs Freedom Fighters Division Through Its Under Secretary vs. K. Kannan

ITEM NO.2 COURT NO.3 SECTION XVI

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

SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) Diary No(s). 15039/2019

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 05-12-2018 in FMA No. 4767/2016 passed by the High Court At Calcutta)

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

RAMPADA PANJA (DEAD THR. LRS) & ORS. Respondent(s) IA No. 77921/2019 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING IA No. 171789/2019 - EXTENSION OF TIME) WITH SLP(C) No. 15304-15305/2019 (XVI) IA No. 84402/2019 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) SLP(C) No. 25860/2017 (XVI) IA No. 137970/2021 - STAY APPLICATION)

SLP(C) No. 14459/2019 (XVI) IA No. 70396/2019 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT & IA No. 70394/2019 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES)

Date : 27-04-2022 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.M. KHANWILKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ABHAY S. OKA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C.T. RAVIKUMAR

For Petitioner(s) Ms. Madhavi Goradia Divan, ASG Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, Adv. Mr. Ravindera Kumar Verma, Adv. Mr. Bharat Singh, Adv. Ms. Vaishali Verma, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR For Respondent(s) Mr. R.D. Manna, Adv. Mr. R.K. Gupta, Adv. Signature Not Verified

Mr. Shekhar Kumar, AOR Mr. Sabyasachi Mondal, Adv.

Mr. A.K. Singh, Adv

• Mr. Suhan Mukerji, Adv. Mr. Aditya Prakash, Adv.

Mr. Nikhil Parikshith, Adv Mr. Vishal Prasad, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Manchanda, Adv. Mr. Sayandeep Pahari, Adv Mr. Tanmay Sinha, Adv. M/S. PLR Chambers And Co., AOR

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

Learned counsel appearing for the respondent(s) points out that some of the legal representatives of the deceased respondent(s) have not been brought on record. He may furnish the details of such persons to the learned advocate-onrecord for the petitioner(s), who in turn may take necessary steps to bring the said parties on record.

Ms. Madhavi Divan, learned Additional Solicitor General, on instructions, submits that enquiry has been more or less completed after inspection of record which had become available to the Committee. They have scanned almost 20,000 files and have found that around 2229 certificates were issued by one individual, which is the issue for consideration in these proceedings.

As we are required to defer the hearing of these matters to enable the petitioner(s) to bring on record the remaining heirs and legal representatives of the deceased respondent(s), we

make it clear that pendency of these matters will not come in the way of the authorities to proceed in the concerned matter in accordance with law if the fact situation so warrants including to cancel the certificate(s) after following due process; and taking appropriate action against the erring officials/persons involved in issuance of such fraudulent certificates.

List these matters on 12.07.2022.

(NEETU KHAJURIA) COURT MASTER

(VIDYA NEGI) COURT MASTER