Kali Dass vs. Union Of India Secretary

ITEM NO.501 COURT NO.1 SECTION PIL-W

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.1099/2019

IN RE: ARTICLE 370 OF THE CONSTITUTION

(With IA No.138432/2023 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 147636/2023 – CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, IA No.147639/2023 – CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, IA No.129177/2019 - EX-PARTE STAY, IA No.146764/2023 - INTERLOCUTARY APPLICATION, IA No.139294/2023 - INTERLOCUTARY APPLICATION, IA No.10999/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.144248/2023 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.9573/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.144241/2023 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.142552/2023 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.174525/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.164438/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.136349/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.154272/2022 – INTERVENTION/ IMPLEADMENT, IA No.189526/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.142335/2023 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.129178/2019 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES, IA No.166037/2019 - STAY APPLICATION and IA No.146832/2023 - WITHDRAWAL OF CASE/APPLICATION)

WITH W.P.(C) No.871/2015 (PIL-W)

(With IA No.34489/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.38200/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT and IA No.1/2015 - PERMISSION TO FILE SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF DATES)

W.P.(C) No.722/2014 (PIL-W)

(With IA No.79897/2017 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.79570/2017 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.120574/2018 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.106447/2018 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 120250/2018 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.108743/2018 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.95744/2017 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.108652/2018 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 108287/2018 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.121124/2018 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.106824/2018 – INTERVENTION/ IMPLEADMENT, IA No.103006/2018 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.120075/2018 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.110782/2017 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.114320/2018 – INTERVENTION/ IMPLEADMENT, IA No.55540/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA

Digitally signed by CHETAN KUMAR Date: 2023.08.16 16:19:12 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

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No.52137/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.81485/2017 – INTERVENTION/ IMPLEADMENT, IA No.108303/2018 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.121757/2018 – INTERVENTION/ IMPLEADMENT, IA No.55541/2019 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON) S.L.P.(C) No.19618/2017 (XIV) (With IA No.182696/2018 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No.1013/2019 (PIL-W) (With IA No.145853/2019 – CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, IA No. 118588/2019 - EX-PARTE STAY, IA No.155795/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.154967/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 143833/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 180145/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 142338/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 164975/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 164876/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 160049/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 169328/2019 – INTERVENTION/ IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 136293/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 118589/2019 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON and IA No. 142343/2019 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON) W.P.(C) No.1082/2019 (X) (With IA No.171000/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT and IA No. 136299/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) W.P.(C) No.1068/2019 (PIL-W) (With IA No.136304/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT and IA No. 125260/2019 - STAY APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No.1037/2019 (X) (With IA No.96178/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No.95994/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No.96173/2021 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.9596/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.171722/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 171690/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No.153133/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.136356/2019 – INTERVENTION/ IMPLEADMENT and IA No.95993/2021 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) W.P.(C) No.1062/2019 (PIL-W) (With IA No.124539/2019 - EX-PARTE STAY, IA No.136347/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT and IA No.124540/2019 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES) W.P.(C) No.1070/2019 (PIL-W) (With IA No.171772/2019 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION, IA No.83434/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 14005/2022 –

CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, IA No.34434/2022 - EARLY HEARING APPLICATION, IA No.125529/2019 - GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF, IA No.136314/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 84479/2022 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.153121/2019 – INTERVENTION/ IMPLEADMENT, IA No.171350/2019 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL

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DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) W.P.(C) No.1104/2019 (X) (With IA No.37063/2022 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 136313/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.165583/2019 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) W.P.(C) No.1165/2019 (PIL-W) (With IA No.116395/2020 - EARLY HEARING APPLICATION, IA No.140590/2019 - EX-PARTE STAY, IA No.116397/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT and IA No.140592/2019 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES) W.P.(C) No.1210/2019 (PIL-W) (With IA No.125359/2020 – CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION and IA No. 107217/2021 - EARLY HEARING APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No.1222/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No.396/2017 (X) (With IA No.118468/2018 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION and IA No.43725/2017 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES) W.P.(C) No.756/2017 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.398/2018 (X) (With IA No.71210/2018 - GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF and IA No. 49481/2018 - PERMISSION TO FILE SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF DATES) W.P.(C) No.924/2018 (PIL-W) (With IA No.109719/2018 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES) W.P.(C) No.1092/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No.1162/2018 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.1048/2019 (PIL-W) (With IA No.188819/2022 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 112494/2020 - EARLY HEARING APPLICATION, IA No.136357/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.122866/2019 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON, IA No.188822/2022 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES and IA No.188813/2022 - PERMISSION TO PLACE ADDITIONAL FACTS AND GROUNDS) W.P.(C) No.1268/2019 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No.1368/2019 (PIL-W)

Date : 16-08-2023 These matters 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

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For Petitioner(s)<br>WPC 1099/2019	Mr. Aakarsh Kamra, AOR
WPC 1099/2019	Ms. Nitya Ramakrishnan, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Vibhor Jain, Adv.<br>Mr. Prasanna S, Adv.<br>Mr. Shadan Farasat, Adv.<br>Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv.<br>Mr. Malavika Prasad, Adv.<br>Ms. Swati Arya, Adv.<br>Mr. Yuvraj Singh Rathore, Adv.<br>Mr. Mukunda Mv, Adv.<br>Mr. N. Sai Vinod, AOR
WPC 871/2015	Mr. Ranjit Kumar, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Vinay Navre, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Aniruddha Rajput, Adv.<br>Mr. Sridhar Potaraju, Adv.<br>Mr. Anirudh Sharma, AOR<br>Mr. Pattabhiram, Adv.<br>Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, Adv.<br>Mr. Praneet Pranav, Adv.<br>Mr. Yashraj Singh Bundela, Adv.
WPC 722/2014	Mr. Barun Kumar Sinha, Adv.<br>Mrs. Pratibha Sinha, Adv.<br>Mr. Rakesh Mudgal, Adv.<br>Mr. Pankaj Kumar Shukla, Adv.<br>Ms. Baby Devi Bonia, Adv.<br>Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR
SLPC 19618/2017	Mr. Anil Kumar Jha, AOR<br>Mr. Vijayendra Mishra, Adv.<br>Mr. Binay Kumar Das, Adv.<br>Mr. Y.K.S. Chauhan, Adv.<br>Ms. Priyanka Das, Adv.<br>Ms. Vijaylakshmi Jha, Adv.<br>Ms. Jyoti Pathak Jha, Adv.<br>Ms. Neha Das, Adv.<br>Mr. Ravi Shankar Ravi, Adv.<br>Mr. Navin Jha, Adv.<br>Mr. Sanjay Kumar Lal Das, Adv.
WPC 1013/2019	Petitioner-in-person

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WPC 1082/2019	Mr. M.C. Dhingra, AOR<br>Mr. Vikrant Yadav, Adv.<br>Mr. Gaurav Dhingra, Adv.<br>Mrs. Madhavi Yadav, Adv.<br>Ms. Prashi Tyagi, Adv.<br>Mr. Syed Imtiyaz Ali, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashok Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Monish Nirwan, Adv.
WPC 1068/2019	Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Aparna Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj, Adv.<br>Ms. Vikramaditya Jha, Adv.<br>Ms. Vishal Sinha, Adv.<br>Ms. Jhanvi Dubey, Adv.<br>Ms. Ishita Chowdhury, Adv.<br>Ms. Shivani Vij, Adv.<br>Ms. Tanya Shrivastava, Adv.<br>Ms. Aditi Gupta, Adv.<br>Ms. Charu Ambwani, AOR
WPC 1037/2019 &<br>WPC 1104/2019	Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. D. Mahesh Babu, AOR<br>Mr. Shishir Pinaki, Adv.<br>Mr. Muzaffar Iqbal Khan, Adv.<br>Mr. Dhanaeswar Gudapalli, Adv.<br>Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv.<br>Ms. Aparajita Jamwal, Adv.<br>Ms. Malavika Prasad, Adv.<br>Mr. Nizam Pasha, Adv.<br>Mr. Ujwala Uppaluri, Adv.<br>Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Rishabh Parikh, Adv.<br>Mr. Desam Sudhakara Reddy, Adv.<br>Ms. Hima Lawrence, Adv.<br>Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv.<br>Mr. Medi Yadaiah, Adv.
WPC 1062/2019	Mr. C.U. Singh, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Dr. Saif Mahmood, Adv.<br>Mr. D. Abhinav Rao, AOR<br>Mr. Mayank Mikhail Mukherjee, Adv.

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WPC 1070/2019	Mr. Shekhar Naphade, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Prashanto Chandra Sen, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Arjun Krishnan, AOR<br>Mr. Ankur Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Ranvir Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Pratik Patnaik, Adv.<br>Mr. Kaustav Som, Adv.<br>Ms. Aishwarya Dash, Adv.<br>Dr. Prashant Pratap, Adv.<br>Ms. Farah Hashmi, Adv.<br>Ms. Somya Yadava, Adv.<br>Ms. Shruthi Parasa, Adv.
WPC 1165/2019	Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Pritha Srikumar, AOR<br>Mr. Aditya Chatterjee, Adv.<br>Ms. Mansi Binjrajka, Adv.
WPC 1210/2019	Mr. C.U. Singh, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. P.V. Dinesh, AOR<br>Mr. Jaimon Andrews, Adv.<br>Ms. Anna Oommen A, Adv.<br>Mr. Bineesh K, Adv.
WPC 1222/2019	Mr. Dushyant Dave, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Adv.<br>Mr. Arun Kumar Maji, Adv.<br>Mr. Arshid Bashir, Adv.<br>Mr. Ram Narayan Mohanty, Adv.<br>Mr. Mohd. Irshad Hanif, AOR
WPC 396/2017	Ms. Jyotika Kalra, AOR<br>Dr. Charu Wali Khanna, Adv.<br>Mr. Joydeep Mukherjee, Adv.<br>Ms. Annwesha Deb, Adv.
WPC 756/2017	Mr. Tripurari Ray, Adv.<br>Mr. Balwant Singh Billowria, Adv.<br>Mr. Vivekanand Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Anirudh Ray, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajinder Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. N. Suresha, Adv.<br>Dr. Nisha Kant Ojha, Adv.<br>Mr. Vivek Gupta, Adv.<br>Ms. Shilpa Singh, AOR

WPC 398/2018	Mr. Ravindra Kumar Raizada, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Rajeev Pandey, Adv.<br>Mr. Dileep Kumar Dubey, Adv.<br>Mr. Surjeet Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Sarthak Raizada, Adv.<br>Mr. Pankaj Jamthani, Adv.<br>Mr. Ajit Yadav, Adv.<br>Ms. Divya Roy, AOR
WPC 924/2018	Mr. Pallav Mongia, AOR
WPC 1092/2018	Mr. Vishnu Shankar Jain, AOR
WPC 1162/2018	Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashwani Kumar Dubey, AOR<br>Mr. Eklavya Dwivedi, Adv.<br>Mr. Chandra Shekhar, Adv.<br>Ms. Ananya Pandey, Adv.<br>Mr. Avinash Shukla, Adv.<br>Mr. Manish Kumar Singh, Adv.
WPC 1048/2019	Dr. Menaka Guruswamy, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Utkarsh Pratap, Adv.<br>Mr. Lavkesh Bhambhani, Adv.<br>Mr. Harshvardhan Thakur, Adv.<br>Mr. Vidur Dwivedi, Adv.<br>Mr. Akashdeep Panday, Adv.<br>Mr. Shahbaaz Jameel, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Pandey, Adv.<br>Ms. Sarika Verma, Adv.<br>Mr. Hira Singh Rawat, Adv.<br>Mr. Kausar Raza Faridi, AOR
WPC 1268/2019	Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR
WPC 1368/2019	Mr. Abhimanue Shrestha, AOR
For Respondent(s)	Mr. R. Venkataramani, AG<br>Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG<br>Mr. K M Nataraj, ASG<br>Mr. Vikramjeet Banerjee, ASG<br>Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.

Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Mr. Anandh Venkataramani, Adv. Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Venkataramani, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Mehrotra, Adv. Ms. Mansi Sood, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Mr. Kartikay Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, AOR Mr. Akshay Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Sabharwal, Adv. Ms. Divija Mahajan, Adv. Mr. Parth Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Vinayaka S Pandit, Adv. Mr. Rajan Parmar, Adv. Mr. Sudhanshu Prakash, Adv. Ms. Rakhi M, Adv. Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, AOR Ms. Taruna Ardhendumauli Prasad, AOR Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. P.S. Sudheer, AOR Mr. K.V. Muthu Kumar, AOR Mr. Talha Abdul Rahman, AOR Mr. V.K. Biju, AOR Dr. Ranjeet Bharti, Adv. Mrs. Ria Sachthey, Adv. Mr. Chetanya Singh, Adv. Mr. Shaji George, Adv. Mr. Aniruddha Purushotham, Adv. Mrs. Rubeena Jawed, Adv. Mr. Aniruddha Purushotmam, Adv.

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Mr. Vineet Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Adil Muneer Andrabi, AOR Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR Mr. Dinesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. K. K. Mohan, AOR Mr. Prateek Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Nishant Singh, Adv. Mr. Omprakash Ajitsingh Parihar, AOR Mr. Dushyant Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Arbind Kumar, Adv. Mr. Praveen Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Mr. Charanjeet Singh Chanderpal, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar, AOR Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv. Ms. Suveni Bhagat, Adv. Mr. Harshad Sunder, Adv. Mr. Rahul Narang, Adv. Ms. Rao Vishwaja, Adv. Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR Mr. Ajay Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Jitendra Bharti, Adv. Ms. Rubi Kumari, Adv. Ms. Baby Devi Bonia, Adv. Ms. Urvashi Sharma, Adv. Ms. Alka Goyal, Adv. Mr. Kamal Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv. Mr. A. Baskar, Adv. Mr. D.N. Dubey, Adv. Mr. Vishal, Adv. Mr. Piyush Singh, Adv. Mr. Harvinder Chowdhury, AOR

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Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Ashwani Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. Eklavya Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Ananya Pandey, Adv. Mr. Chandra Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Avinash Shukla, Adv. Applicant-in-person Mr. Bimal Roy Jad, Sr. Adv. Dr. Brij Bhushan K. Jauhari, Adv. Ms. Riddhi Jad, Adv. Mr. Atul Mahan, Adv. Mr. O.P. Singh, Adv. Mr. Suresh Kumar Bhan, Adv. Ms. Purnima Jauhari, AOR Ms. Resmitha R. Chandran, AOR Mr. Riju Raj Singh Jamwal, Adv. Ms. Madhusmita Bora, AOR Mr. K. Krishna Kumar, AOR Mr. Soayib Qureshi, AOR Ms. Disha Singh, AOR Mr. Shivendu Gaur, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mohit, Adv. Mr. Praveer Singh, Adv. Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, AOR Mr. S Guru Krishna Kumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Dileep Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Yash Raj Singh Bundela, Adv. Mr. Surjeet Singh, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Pavan Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aviral Saxena, Adv. Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv. Ms. Kavitha K T, Adv. Mr. Ashwin K, Adv.

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Mr. Gopal Jha, Adv. Mr. Tadimalla Bhaskar Gowtham, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Sinha, Adv. Mr. Rajesh K. Singh, Adv. Mr. Shyamal Kumar, Adv. Mr. Bitu Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Tomar, Adv. Mr. Ajay Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Singh, AOR Mr. Nitin Sangra, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Bhushan, Adv. Ms. Shweta Singh Parihar, AOR Mr. Irshad Ahmad, AOR Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR Mr. Rajesh K Singh, Adv. Mr. Shyamal Kumar, Adv. Mr. Bitu Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Aditi Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Sindoora Vnl, Adv. Mr. V. C. Shukla, Adv. Mr. Kumar Prashant, Adv. Mr. Parmod Kumar Vishnoi, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Praveen Acharya, AOR Mr. Ravi Kant Purohit, Adv. Ms. Devika Vengurlekar, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Mishra, Adv. Ms. Anisha Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Mohit Chaudhary, AOR Mr. Mahesh Jethmalani, Sr. Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Pranav Praneet, Adv. Mr. Alabhya Dhamija, Adv. Mrs. Aditi Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Kant, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Majithia, Adv. Ms. Kanika Singhal, Adv. Mr. Ravi Sharma, Adv. Ms. Mugdha Pande, Adv. Mr. Ajay Awasthi, Adv.

Mr. Anil Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Himadri Haksar, Adv. Mr. Vishal Arun, AOR Dr. Menaka Guruswamy, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shaunak Dutta, Adv. Mr. Utkarsh Pratap, Adv. Mr. Lavkesh Bhambhani, Adv. Mr. Harshwardhan Thakur, Adv. Mr. Shakti Kanta Pattanaik, AOR Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, AOR Mr. Mustafa Sajad, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Thakur, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Thakur, AOR Ms. Keerti Jaya, Adv. Mr. Ranvijay Singh Chandel, Adv. Mr. Shivamma Sharrma, Adv. Mrs. Geetanjali Bedi, Adv. Ms. Sanjivani Aggarwal, Adv. Ms. Jyoti Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Shekhavat, Adv. Ms. Filza Moonis, AOR Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR Mr. Abhishek Pandey, Adv. Ms. Sakshi Garg, Adv. Intervenor-in-person Mr. Ninad Dogra, AOR Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. Rahul G Tanwani, Adv. Mr. Anantha Narayana M.G., AOR Mr. Manan Sanghai, Adv. Mr. Prashant Singh, Adv. Mr. Tarun Gulia, Adv. Mr. Gopala Krishna M.L., Adv. Mr. Ayush Anand, Adv. Mr. Anant Sangal, Adv.

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Ms. Nitya Ramakrishnan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Prasanna S., AOR Mr. Archit Krishna, Adv. Ms. Swati Arya, Adv. Mr. Yuvraj Singh Rathore, Adv. Mr. Anupam Raina, AOR Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Mr. Manish Tewari, Adv. Mr. Tushar Bathija, Adv. Mr. Siddhant Saroha, Adv. Mr. Praveer Singh, Adv. Mr. Parth Jain, Adv. Mr. Apoorv Shukla, AOR Mr. B.K. Satija, AOR Mr. Vinay Navre, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Surjeet Singh, Adv. Mr. Alabhya Dhamija, Adv. Mr. Mithun Shashank, Adv. Mr. Ajit Yadav, Adv. Mr. Sudipto Sircar, Adv. Ms. Divya Roy, 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 (17 August 2023) as part-heard matter.

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

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