All India Judges Association vs. Union Of India

ITEM NO.42 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).643/2015

ALL INDIA JUDGES ASSOCIATION Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA . & ORS. Respondent(s)

(WITH IA No. 75407/2024 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 75406/2024 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT)

Date : 15-07-2024 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J.B. PARDIWALA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ MISRA

Mr. K. Parameshwar, Adv. (AC)

For Petitioner(s)	Mr. Gourab Banerji, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Mayuri Raghuvanshi, AOR<br>Mr. Vyom Raghuvanshi, Adv.<br>Ms. Akanksha Rathore, Adv.<br>Mr. Venkata Supreeth, Adv.<br>Mr. VP Singh, Adv.
For Respondent(s)	Mrs. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Mohd Akhil, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajan Kumar Chourasia, Adv.<br>Mr. Wasim Quadri, Adv.<br>Mr. Chitvan Sinhal, Adv.<br>Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv.<br>Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv.<br>Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Ameyavikrama Thanvi, Adv.<br>Mr. Kartikay Aggarwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR<br>Ms. Preetika Dwivedi, AOR<br>Mr. Abhisek Mohanty, Adv.

Mr. Sandeep Sudhakar Deshmukh, AOR

Mr. Gagan Gupta, AOR

Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., AOR

Mr. Nishant Sharma, Adv. Mr. Patil Avi Vilas, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv. Mr. Apoorv Kurup, AOR Ms. Nidhi Mittal, Adv. Ms. Gauri Goburdhun, Adv. Mr. Gurjas Singh Narula, Adv. Mr. Akhil Hasija, Adv. Ms. Aanchal, Adv. Ms. Kavita Jha, AOR Mr. Rajeev Kumar Jha, Adv. Mr. Aditeya Bali, Adv. Mr. P. I. Jose, AOR Mr. Sandeep Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Maibam Nabaghanashyam Singh, AOR Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Verma, Adv. Mr. K S Rama Rao, Adv. Mr. Shakti K Pattanaik, Adv. Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Mrs. Shashi Pathak, Adv. Mr. Purvish Jitendra Malkan, AOR Mr. Huzefa Ahmadi, Sr. Adv. Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR Mr. Aditya Bhanu Neekhra, Adv. Mr. Atul Dong, Adv. Mr. Aniket Patel, Adv. Mr. Anupam Raina, AOR Mr. Krishnanand Pandeya, AOR Mr. Pai Amit, AOR Ms. Pankhuri Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Kushal Dube, Adv. Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Mr. Shaji P Chaly, Sr. Adv. Ms. Swathi H Prasad, Adv.

Ms. Samyuktha H. Nair, Adv. Mr. A. Radhakrishnan, AOR Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Niranjan Sahu, AOR Mrs. Prabhati Nayak, Adv. Mr. Umakant Misra, Adv. Ms. Apoorva Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. Mukul Kumar, AOR Ms. Enakshi Mukhopadhyay Siddhanta, AOR Mr. Sovon Siddhanta, Adv. Mr. K.G. Kannan, Adv. Mr. Saravanan A., Adv. Mr. Mandaar Mukesh Giri, Adv. Mr. Mukesh K. Giri, AOR Mr. Santosh Krishnan, AOR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Mr. Keshav Singh, Adv. Mr. Anil Shrivastav, A.A.G. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR Ms. Ankita Sharma, AOR Mr. Abhay Anil Anturkar, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Tank, Adv. Mr. Aniruddha Awalgaonkar, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Mehrotra, Adv. Ms. Surbhi Kapoor, AOR Mr. Bhagwant Deshpande, Adv. Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. B.K. Satija, A.A.G. Dr. Hemant Gupta, A.A.G. Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AOR Ms. Payal Gupta, Adv.

Mr. Shivang Jain, Adv. Ms. Monica Anand Kumar, Adv. Ms. Nitikaa Guptha, Adv. Ms. Sabarni Som, Adv. Mr. Aman Dev Sharma, Adv. Mr. Fateh Singh, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rajat Sinha Roy, Adv. Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Mr. Sunil Kumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv. Mr. Nishanth Patil, A.A.G. Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Ayush P. Shah, Adv. Mr. Vignesh Adithiya S, Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Riddhi Bose, Adv. Ms. Ankita Choudhary, A.A.G. Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mr. Shashank Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Mayur Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Ms. Preet S. Phanse, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Dubey, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Mr. R. Rajaselvan, Adv. Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv.

Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Mr. Gurminder Singh AG Punjab/Sr. Adv. Mr. Karan Sharma, AOR Mr. Mohit Siwach, Adv. Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Mr. Kushagra Aman, Adv. Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aakash Thakur, Adv. Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, Sr. A.A.G. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr. Saushriya Havelia A, Adv. Mr. Naman Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. C. Kranthi Kumar, Adv. Mr. Tanvi Anand, Adv. Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv. Ms. Devina Sehgal, AOR Mr. Dhananjay Yadav, Adv. Mr. Ankit Goel, AOR Mr. Kuldeep Parihaar, D.A.G. Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sunny Sachin Rawat, Adv. Ms. Saakshi Singh Rawat, Adv. Mr. S Sunil, Adv. Mr. Sudarshan Singh Rawat, AOR Mr. Parijat Sinha, AOR Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, AOR Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Mrinal Elker Mazumdar, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv. Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv.

Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Adv. Ms. Priyadarshini Priya, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Anmol Chandan, Adv. Mr. Vatsal Joshi, Adv. Mr. Annirudh Sharma-(ii, Adv. Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Karol, Adv. Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Akshay Gupta, Adv. Mr. K. Parameshwar, Amicus Curiae Ms. Kanti, Adv. Mr. Mv Mukunda, Adv. Ms. Raji Gururaj, Adv. Mr. Shreenivas Patil, Adv. Ms. Chitransha Singh Sikarwar, Adv. Mr. Deepak Prakash, AOR Mr. Pawan Kr. Dabas, Adv. Mr. Sriram P., Adv. Mr. Vishal Somany, Adv. Mr. Kamal Singh Bisht, Adv. Mr. Raneev Dahiya, Adv. Mr. Nachiketa Vajpayee, Adv. Ms. Divyangna Malik, Adv. Ms. Vishnu Priya, Adv. Ms. Merlyn J. Rachel, Adv. Mr. Vardaan Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Rahul Lakhera, Adv. Mr. Rahul Suresh, Adv. Ms. Manshi Sinha, Adv. Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, AOR Mr. Dama Seshadri Naidu, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ramesh Allanki, Adv. Ms. Aruna Gupta, AOR Mr. Syed Ahmad Naqvi, Adv. Mrs. Barnali Basak, Adv. Mr. Sudhir Kumar Saxena, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aviral Saxena, AOR Mr. K Aditya Singh, Adv.

Mr. Abhinav Sharma, Adv. Mr. Gautam Narayan, AOR Ms. Asmita Singh, Adv. Mr. K. V. Vibu Prasad, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Anand, Adv. Mrs. Anjani Aiyagari, AOR Mr. Dilip Annasaheb Taur, AOR Mr. Ankur Kashyap, Adv. Mr. Ajith S Ranganathan, Adv. Mr. Rohit Rajershi, Adv. Mr. Aman Bajaj, Adv. Mr. Purushartha Singh, Adv. Mr. Ankur Kashyap, AOR Mr. Rohit Kumar, AOR Mr. Ahanthem Henry, Adv. Mr. Ahanthem Rohen Singh, Adv. Mr. Mohan Singh, Adv. Mr. Aniket Rajput, Adv. Ms. Khoisnam Nirmala Devi, Adv. Mr. Kumar Mihir, AOR Mr. Joydip Roy, Adv. Mr. Gopal Jha, AOR Mr. Shreyashbhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Umesh Kumar Yadav, Adv. Mr. T. V. Ratnam, AOR Mr. G. Prakash, Adv. Mrs. Beena Prakash, Adv. Mr. Anoop R, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Prakash, AOR Mr. Joydip Roy, Adv. Mr. Gopal Jha, AOR Mr. Shreyashbhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Umesh Kumar Yadav, Adv. Mr. V. Chitambaresh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Karthik S.d., AOR Mr. C. Govind Venugopal, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Anmol Chandan, Adv. Mr. Vatsal Joshi, Adv.

Mr. Annirudh Sharma-(ii), Adv. Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Karol, Adv. Mr. Uday B. Dube, AOR

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

• 1 The issue is whether the provisions for TDS will apply to allowances payable to the judicial officers under the Second National Judicial Pay Commission. Mr N Venkataraman, Additional Solicitor General, has indicated that he would have the issue examined in the Revenue Department of the Ministry of Finance.
• 2 On the request which has been communicated by Mr N Venkataraman, further deliberation on this aspect shall stand over to 5 August 2024.
• 3 As regards the issue of the applicability of the National Pension Scheme to judges in the district judiciary, list the proceedings for hearing on 22 July 2024 at 2 pm.

IA Nos 75406, 75407 and 143933 of 2024

• 4 Issue notice.
• 5 Ms Prerna Singh, counsel, accepts notice on behalf of the State of Andhra Pradesh and seeks a week's time to take instructions.
• 6 Liberty to serve the Standing Counsel for the State of Telangana.
• 7 List the IAs on 22 July 2024 at 2 pm.

IA Nos 4137 and 4124 of 2024

• 8 Issue notice.
• 9 Liberty to serve the Standing Counsel for the State of Kerala.
• 10 List the IAs on 22 July 2024 at 2 pm.

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