S. Rajaseekaran vs. Union Of India And Ors. Ministry Of Road Transport And Highways Secretary

COURT NO.4

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

<u>Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s). 295/2012</u>

S. RAJASEEKARAN

Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. & ORS.

Respondent(s)

[ONLY IA No. 26710 OF 2025 LISTED ON 04.02.2025] ....

[MR. GAURAV AGRAWAL, SENIOR ADVOCATE IS AMICUS CURIAE] (IA No. 26710/2025 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS)

Date : 04-02-2025 This matter was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ABHAY S. OKA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE UJJAL BHUYAN

Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Sr. Adv. (A.C.)

For Petitioner(s): Mr. Krishna Kumar, AOR Mr. Vinodh Kanna B. Adv.

	For Respondent(s) :Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G.
	Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G.
	Mr. R Bala, Sr. Adv.
	Ms. Swarupma Chaturvedi, Sr. Adv.
	Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR
	Ms. Nidhi Khanna, Adv.
	Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Adv.
	Mr. T S Sabrish, Adv.
	Mr. Debojit Borkakati, Adv.
	Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR, Adv.
	Mr. Nidhi Khanna, Adv.
	Mr. B K Satija, Adv.
	Mr. Viresh B. Saharya, AOR
	Ms. Prerna Mehta, AOR
	Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR
Signature Not Verified	Mr. Abhimanyu Singh Ga, Adv.
Digitally signed by<br>KAVITA PAHOJA<br>Date: 2025-02.04	Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, Adv.
Reason:	Mr. Manoj Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Nitin Lonkar, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Krishna Rastogi, Adv. Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Ms. Mythili S, Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Ms. Anu K Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Santhosh K, Adv. Ms. Ruchira Gupta, Standing Counsel, Adv. Ms. Tulika Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Beenu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Venkat Narayan, Adv. Mr. M. P. Vinod, AOR Mr. Kishan Chand Jain, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ashwini Kumar, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Subhasish Mohanty, AOR Mr. Azmat Hayat Amanullah, AOR Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, AOR Mrs. Kshama Sharma, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Maurya, Adv. Mr. Ram Bachhan Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Amrendra Singh, Adv. Mr. Anand Krishna, Adv. Ms. Priya Chakraborty, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Ashutosh, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Senior Advocate, A.C. Mr. Ravi Raghunath, AOR

Mr. Manan Daga, Adv. Mr. Vivek Kishore, AOR Mr. R. Bala, Sr. Adv. Mrs. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Ms. Sunita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv. Mr. Annirudh Sharma II, Adv. Mr. Jagdish Chandra Solanki, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR Ms. Yashmita Pandey, Adv. Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Akshay Gupta, Adv. Mr. Aadithya Aravindh, Adv. Mr. D. K. Devesh, AOR M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Mr. Sumit Gupta, Adv. Mr. Akshay Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Tanya Shrotiya, Adv. Ms. Jaikriti S. Jadeja, AOR Ms. Devina Sehgal, AOR Mr. Yatharth Kansal, Adv. Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhagwati, Adv. Ms. Ruchira Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shishir Deshpande, AOR Ms. Pooja Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Abhishek Verma, Adv.

Mr. Rajat Bhardwaj, A.A.G. Ms. Baani Khanna, AOR Mr. Robin Singh, Adv. Mr. Rohit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, Sr. A.A.G. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv. Ms. Saushria Havelia, Adv. Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sagar, AOR Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gunjesh Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Keshav Khandelwal, Adv. Mrs. Divya Mishra, Adv. Mr. V. Shyamohan, AOR Mr. Sanjay Jain, AOR Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Ms. Devyani Bhatt, Adv. Ms. Sneha Menon, Adv. Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, AOR Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Yadav, Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar - I, AOR Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR Mr. Daleep Dhyani, Adv. Mr. Suraj Singh, Adv. Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G.

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Mr. Mrinal Elkar Mazumdar, Adv.

Mr. Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Adv. Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Kapur, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Adv. Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Apoorv Kurup, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. Divyanshu Kumar Srivastava, AOR (State of H.P.) Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR (State of Meghalaya) Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv. Mr. Kunal Mimani, AOR (State of West Bengal) Mr. Tanish Arora, Adv.

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

IA No. 26710/2025

Issue notice, returnable on 24th March, 2025.

Learned counsel appearing for Union of India accepts notice.

Response of Union of India and others shall be placed on record in the form of counter affidavit by 17st March, 2025.

Copies thereto be provided to the learned Senior counsel appointed as Amicus Curiae.

(KAVITA PAHUJA) (AVGV RAMU)

AR-cum-PS COURT MASTER (NSH)