Sunil Prabhu vs. Speaker Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

ITEM NO.706 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(s)(Civil) No(s).493/2022

SUBHASH DESAI Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

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

[ FOR DIRECTIONS ]

WITH

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

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

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

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

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

Date : 12-10-2023 These petitions were called on for hearing today. CORAM :

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KISHAN KAUL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJIV KHANNA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B.R. GAVAI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J.B. PARDIWALA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ MISRA

For Petitioner(s) Mr. Anish R. Shah, AOR

Mr. Javedur Rahman, AOR

Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, AOR

Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Chirag Shah, Adv.

Mr. Utsav Trivedi, Adv.

• Ms. Manini Roy, Adv.
• Mr. Himanshu Sachdeva, Adv.
• Mr. Piyush Tiwari, Adv.
• Ms. Shivani Bhushan, Adv.
• Ms. Nandini Acharya, Adv.
• Ms. Diksha Tyagi, Adv.

Mr. Ashish Yadav, Adv.

Ms. Pracheta Kar, Adv. Mr. Aditya Sidhra, Adv. Mr. Nadeem Afroz, Adv. For M/S. Tas Law For Respondent(s) Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Shantnu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Digvijay Dam, Adv. Mr. Madhav Sinhal, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Pai Amit, AOR Ms. Pankhuri Bhardwaj, Adv. Ms. Bhavana Duhoon, Adv. Ms. Ranu Purohit, Adv. Mr. Abhiyudaya Vats, Adv. Ms. Astha Prasad, AOR Mr. Ajit Pravin Wagh, Adv. Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, AOR Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Mr. Anoop Raj, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Chirag Shah, Adv. Mr. Utsav Trivedi, Adv. Ms. Manini Roy, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Sachdeva, Adv. Ms. Shivani Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Piyush Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Nandini Acharya, Adv. Ms. Diksha Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Ashish Yadav, Adv. Ms. Pracheta Kar, Adv. Mr. Nadeem Afroz, Adv. Mr. Aditya Sidhar, Adv. For M/S. Tas Law, AOR Mr. Javedur Rahman, AOR Mr. Ankit Yadav, AOR Ms. Prakriti Rastogi, Adv. Mr. Tarun Mehra, Adv.

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Mr. Kailash Prashad Pandey, AOR Mr. Vijay Pal, Adv. Mr. Pramod Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Umang Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Kundan Lal Gupta, Adv. Mr. Vimal Kishore Rastogi, Adv. Mr. Vinay Kumar Aherodiya, Adv. Mrs. Kajal Kumari, Adv. Mr. Dusmanta Kumar Pradhan, Adv. Mr. Mahendra Singh, Adv. Mr. Karunesh Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mr. Sadashiv, AOR Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Mr. Anoop Raj, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Pawan Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mr. Kamal Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. S.C. Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Belsare, Adv. Mr. Raj Singh Rana, AOR Mr. T. R. B. Sivakumar, AOR Mr. Shreyas Gacche, Adv. Mr. Rajsaheb Patil, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar Gupta II, AOR

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

• 1 In order to facilitate the submissions before the Bench, it has been agreed that Mr Javedur Rahman and Mr Chirag J Shah, counsel, shall act as the nodal counsel. They shall put together a common compilation of the submissions, pleadings, documents and precedents in terms of the Circular dated 22 August 2023 issued for regulating the course of submissions in larger Bench cases.

• 2 The Registry shall provide the updated soft copy of the paper books to all AORs and nodal counsel on or before 21 October 2023.

• 3 The nodal counsel shall prepare the soft copies of the common compilations on or before 20 November 2023. The common compilations shall be made available to all the parties. Written submissions shall be furnished to the nodal counsel on or before 4 December 2023. The compilations together with the written submissions shall be in the electronic form and shall be emailed to the Court Master at [email protected] on or before 5 December 2023.

• 4 List the Petitions for hearing in the second week of March 2024 tentatively before an appropriate Bench.

(SANJAY KUMAR-I) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR) DEPUTY REGISTRAR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR