Sunil Prabhu vs. Speaker Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

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: 2023.02.28 17:02:56 IST Reason:

Date : 28-02-2023 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. Devdatt 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. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Mahesh Jhethmalani, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Malvika Trivedi, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Chirag Shah, Adv.<br>Mr. Utsav Trivedi, Adv.<br>Mr. Ravi Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Himanshu Sachdeva, Adv.<br>Ms. Manini Roy, Adv.<br>Ms. Shivani Bhushan, Adv.<br>Mr. Nihar Thackeray, Adv.

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	Ms. Ira Mahajan, Adv.<br>Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Raghav Agarwal, Adv.<br>Ms. Mugdha Pande, Adv.<br>Mr. Ajay Awasthi, Adv.<br>Mr. Prabhash Bajaj, Adv.<br>Mr. Navneet R, Adv.<br>Mr. Piyush Tiwari, Adv.<br>Ms. Shrishti Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Kumar Sumit, Adv.<br>Ms. Chaitali Jugran, Adv.<br>Ms. Kanjani Sharma, Adv.<br>Ms. Pracheta Kar, Adv.<br>Mr. Aditya Sidhra, Adv.<br>Mr. Nadeem Afroz, Adv.<br>Ms. Sujal Gupta, Adv.<br>Mr. Weedo Khalo, Adv.<br>Mr. Anjani Kumar Rai, Adv.<br>Mr. Biswaksen Panda, Adv.<br>M/s. TAS Law
WPC 468/2022	Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, AOR<br>Mr. Abhay Anturkar, Adv.<br>Mr. Prabhas Bajaj, Adv.<br>Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv.<br>Ms. Ira Mahajan, Adv.<br>Mr. Ramchandra Madan, Adv.<br>Mr. Toshiv Goyal, Adv.<br>Mr. Raghav Agrawal, Adv.<br>Ms. Shreya Saxena, Adv.<br>Ms. Yamini Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Pritha Suri, Adv.<br>Ms. Vijetha Ravi, Adv.<br>Mr. Ajay Sabharwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Rangasaran Mohan, Adv.
WPC 470/2022,<br>WPC 479/2022 &<br>WPC 538/2022	Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sr. Adv.<br>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. Dharmendra Mishra, Adv. Mr. Amit Bhandari, Adv. Mr. Nizam Pasha, Adv. Mr. Harsh Pandey, Adv. Mr. Revanta Solanki, Adv. Ms. Aparajita Jamwal, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Purohit, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar, Adv. Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Seem, Adv. Mr. L. Nidhiram Sharma, Adv. Mr. Aman Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ashima Chauhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Mudassir, Adv. For Respondent(s) Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Harish Salve, Sr. Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahesh Jhethmalani, Sr. Adv. Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv. Ms. Malvika Trivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Chirag Shah, Adv. Mr. Utsav Trivedi, Adv. Mr. Ravi Sharma, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Sachdeva, Adv. Ms. Manini Roy, Adv. Ms. Shivani Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Nihar Thackeray, Adv. Ms. Ira Mahajan, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Raghav Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Mugdha Pande, Adv. Mr. Ajay Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Prabhash Bajaj, Adv. Mr. Navneet R, Adv. Mr. Piyush Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Chaitali Jugran, Adv. Ms. Kanjani Sharma, Adv. Ms. Shrishti Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kumar Sumit, Adv. Ms. Pracheta Kar, Adv. Mr. Aditya Sidhra, Adv. Mr. Nadeem Afroz, Adv. Ms. Sujal Gupta, Adv. Mr. Weedo Khalo, Adv. Mr. Anjani Kumar Rai, Adv. Mr. Biswaksen Panda, Adv. M/s. TAS Law Mr. Ankit Yadav, AOR Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv. Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, AOR Mr. Abhay Anturkar, Adv. Mr. Prabhas Bajaj, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv. Ms. Ira Mahajan, Adv. Mr. Ramchandra Madan, Adv. Ms. Shreya Saxena, Adv. Ms. Yamini Singh, Adv. Mr. Toshiv Goyal, Adv. Mr. Raghav Agrawal, Adv. Ms. Pritha Suri, Adv. Ms. Vijetha Ravi, Adv. Mr. Ajay Sabharwal, Adv. Mr. Rangasaran Mohan, Adv. Mr. Pai Amit, AOR Ms. Pankhuri Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Abhiyudaya Vats, Adv.

Ms. Bhavana Duhoon, Adv.

Ms. Ranu Purohit, Adv. Ms. Rukhmini Bobde, Adv. Ms. Trishala Trivedi, Adv. Mr. Ankit Ambasta, Adv. Mr. Chirag Gupta, Adv. Mr. Ajit Pravin Wagh, Adv. Ms. Astha Prasad, AOR Mr. Javedur Rahman, AOR Mr. Kailash Prashad Pandey, AOR Mr. Vijay Pal, Adv. Mr. Pramod Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Kundal Lal, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Umang Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Deepankar, Adv. Mr. Vinay Kumar Aherodiya, Adv. Ms. Kajal Kumari, Adv. Ms. Sundri, Adv. Mr. Om Prakash, Adv. Ms. Rekha Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Karunesh Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mr. Amit Garg, Adv. Mr. Asim Sarode, Adv. Ms. Shriya Awale, Adv. Ms. Smita Singalkar, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar Gupta II, AOR Mr. T.R.B. Sivakumar, AOR Dr. Gunratan Sadavarte, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Pawan Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Verma, Adv. Mr. S.c. Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Balsare, Adv. Mr. Raj Singh Rana, AOR Mr. Sadashiv, AOR

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

• 1 Arguments heard in-part.
• 2 Put up for further hearing tomorrow (1 March 2023) as part heard matter.

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