All Assam Ahom Association Represented By Its President Mr. Jnanandan Phukan vs. Union Of India Represented By The 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(s)(Civil) No(s).274/2009

IN RE: SECTION 6A OF THE CITIZENSHIP ACT 1955

(WITH IA No. 14361/2021 - CONTEMPT PETITION, IA No. 14359/2021 - CONTEMPT PETITION)

WITH

W.P.(C) No. 916/2014 (PIL-W) (WITH IA No. 138341/2019 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS)

Diary No(s). 34152/2018 (XIV)

(WITH IA No. 135242/2018 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING, IA No. 135243/2018 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT, IA No. 160372/2018 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES, IA No. 135345/2018 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES, IA No. 135241/2018 - PERMISSION TO FILE SLP)

Diary No(s). 21214/2018 (XIV) (WITH IA No. 84178/2018 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING)

Diary No(s). 20944/2018 (XIV) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.80351/2018-CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING and IA No.80352/2018-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT and IA No.80350/2018-PERMISSION TO FILE SLP)

Diary No(s). 21959/2018 (XIV)

(FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.82961/2018-CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING and IA No.82962/2018-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT and IA No.82959/2018-PERMISSION TO FILE SLP)

Diary No(s). 21377/2018 (XIV)

(FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.92415/2018-CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING and IA No.92417/2018-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT and IA No.92411/2018-PERMISSION TO FILE SLP/TP and IA No.92419/2018-CONDONATION OF DELAY IN REFILING)

Diary No(s). 21368/2018 (XIV)

(FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.82085/2018-CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING and IA No.82087/2018-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT and IA No.82088/2018-INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT and IA No.82084/2018-PERMISSION TO FILE SLP and IA No.82086/2018- PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS) Digitally signed by Sanjay Kumar Date: 2023.12.05 16:28:47 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

W.P.(C) No. 470/2018 (X) (FOR ADMISSION and I.R. and IA No.69948/2018-EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.)

W.P.(C) No. 1047/2018 (X) (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.125802/2018-EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. IA No. 125802/2018 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) W.P.(C) No. 68/2016 (PIL-W) (WITH IA No. 186168/2018 - EARLY HEARING APPLICATION, IA No. 1/2017 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No. 876/2014 (X) (WITH IA No. 36773/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 1/2014 - STAY APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No. 449/2015 (X) (WITH IA No. 1/2015 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 120136/2018 – CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, IA No. 120151/2018 – CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, IA No. 120147/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) W.P.(C) No. 450/2015 (X) (WITH IA No. 1/2015 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS) W.P.(C) No. 311/2015 (X) SLP(C) No. 25858/2015 (XIV) W.P.(C) No. 562/2012 (X) Date : 05-12-2023 These petitions were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. SUNDRESH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J.B. PARDIWALA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ MISRA For Petitioner(s) WP C 876/2014 Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. WP C 311/2015 Mr. Vijay Hansaria, Sr. Adv. WP C 68/2016 Mr. Somiran Sharma, AOR Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, Adv. Ms. Kavya Jhawar, Adv. Mr. Sudipto Sircar, Adv. Ms. Anshula Laroiya, Adv. Mr. Adith Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Arpit Jacob Varaprasad, Adv. Ms. Shristi Borthakur, Adv. Mr. Dhrubajit Saikia, Adv. Ms. Aadya Malik, Adv. WP 274/2009 Mr. Mukul Kumar, AOR Mr. Anish Roy, Adv.

	Mr. Dileep Rajpurohit, Adv.<br>Mr. Girish Agarwal, Adv.
D 20944/2018,<br>D 21959/2018 &<br>WP C 470/2018	Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, AOR<br>Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv.<br>Mr. Nizam Pasha, Adv.<br>Ms. Rupali Samuel, Adv.<br>Mr. Ibad Mushtaq, Adv.<br>Ms. Sumedha Ray Sarkar, Adv.<br>Ms. Akanksha Rai, Adv.
	Ms. Gurneet Kaur, Adv.
WP C 562/2012	Mr. K N Choudhury, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Manish Goswami, Adv.<br>Mr. Rongon Choudhury, Adv.<br>Mr. Rana Singha, Adv.<br>Mr. Navneet Gautam, Adv.<br>Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR
D 34152/2018	Mr. Shivendra Singh, AOR<br>Mr. Bikram Dwivedi, Adv.<br>Mr. Sanjeev Chaudhary, Adv.<br>Mr. Puneett Singhal, Adv.
WP C 1047/2018	Mr. Somesh Chandra Jha, AOR
SLP 25858/2015	Mr. Sanjay Hegde, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Anas Tanwir, Adv.<br>Mr. Mrigank Prabhakar, AOR<br>Mr. Gautam Prabhakar, Adv.
WP C 450/2015	Mr. Sunil Murarka, Adv.<br>Mr. Partha Sil, AOR<br>Mr. Tavish Bhushan Prasad, Adv.<br>Ms. Sayani Bhattacharya, Adv.<br>Mr. Joydeep Mukherjee, Adv.<br>Mr. Abhiraj Choudhary, Adv.
D 21214/2018 &<br>D 21377/2018	Mr. Mansoor Ali, AOR<br>Mr. Bilal Mansoor, Adv.<br>Mr. Shahid Rizvi, Adv.<br>Mr. Amod Kumar Bidhuri, Adv.<br>Mr. Zeeshan Rizvi, Adv.<br>Mr. Saquib Siddiqui, Adv.<br>Ms. Rubina Jawed, Adv.<br>Mr. Anjani Kumar Mishra, AOR
For Respondent(s)	Mr. R Venkataramani, Attorney General for India<br>Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General<br>Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G.

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Mrs. Rekha Pandey, Adv. Mrs. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv. Mrs. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mrs. Ruchi Narula Gour, Adv. Mrs. Diksha Rai, Adv. Ms. Sneha Kalita, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Mr. Kartikay Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Devajit Saikia, Advocate General, Assam Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mrs. Diksha Rai, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. P Nayak, Adv. Mr. Madhav Sinhal, Adv. Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Kritagya Kait, Adv. Mr. Tanmay Mehta, Adv. Mr. Rohit Khare, Adv. Mr. Akshay Nain, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Arijit Dey, Adv. Ms. Apurva Sachdev, Adv. Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. Ms. Indira Jaising, Sr. Adv. Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv. Mr. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, AOR Mr. Mustafa Khaddam Hussain, Adv. Mr. Nizam Pasha, Adv. Mr. Paras Nath Singh, Adv. Mr. Ibad Mushtaq, Adv. Mr. Rohin Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Mohammad Wasim, Adv. Ms. Akanksha Rai, Adv. Ms. Rupali Samuel, Adv. Ms. Lubna Naaz, Adv. Ms. Tehsheena Z Hussain, Adv. Mr. Syed Mohammad Ashhar, Adv. Ms. Gurneet Kaur, Adv. Ms. Malvika Trivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ankit Yadav, AOR

Mr. Tarun Mehra, Adv. Ms. Prakriti Rastogi, Adv. Ms. Sujal Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shailendra Slaria, Adv. Mr. T. Mahipal, AOR Mr. K N Choudhury, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manish Goswami, Adv. Mr. Rongon Choudhury, Adv. Mr. Navneet Gautam, Adv. Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Mr. Sanjay R Hegde, Sr. Adv. Mr. Adeel Ahmed, AOR Mr. Raja Chatterjee, Adv. Ms. Taqdees Fatima, Adv. Ms. Anupama Gupta, Adv. Ms. Riya Dutta, Adv. Ms. Sana Parveen, Adv. Ms. Lilly Biswas, Adv. Mr. Chander Uday Singh, Sr. Adv. Ms. Aparna Bhat, AOR Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Ms. Bidya Mohanty, Adv. Ms. Karishma Maria, Adv. Mr. Mrinmoy Dutta, Adv. Mr. Amjid Maqbool, Adv. Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Ms. Hetvi Patel, Adv. Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Mr. Dushyant Dave, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mansoor Ali, AOR Mr. M.R. Shamshad, Adv. Mr. Bilal Mansoor, Adv. Mr. Arijit Sarkar, Adv. Ms. Nabeela Jamil, Adv. Mr. Shahid Rizvi, Adv. Ms. Rubina Jawed, Adv. Mr. Zeeshan Rizvi, Adv. Ms. Krishna Sarma, Adv. Mr. Navnit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar, Adv. For M/S. Corporate Law Group, AOR Mr. Gaurav Dhingra, AOR Mr. M.C. Dhingra, Adv. Mr. A.K. Singh, Adv. Mr. Mahender Ram, Adv.

Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Ms. Sneha Kalita, AOR Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Mr. Debojit Borkakati, AOR Ms. Diksha Rai, AOR Mr. Arijit Dey, Adv. Ms. Atiga Singh, Adv. Ms. Apurva Sachdev, Adv. Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR Mr. Siddhant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR Ms. Manyaa Chandok, Adv. Ms. Ishida Deswal, Adv. Ms. Abhivyakti Banerjee, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Srisatya Mohanty, Adv. Ms. Anju Thomas, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Mantika Haryani, Adv. Mr. Shreyas Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Chakravarty, Adv. Ms. Ripul Swati Kumari, Adv. Mr. Bhanu Mishra, Adv. Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv. Ms. Lihzu Shiney Konyak, Adv. Ms. Anvita Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. G. Indira, AOR Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR Mr. Shantwanu Singh, Adv. Mr. Rahul Dubey, Adv. Ms. Pragya Singh, Adv. Mr. Akshay Singh, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, AOR Mrs. Niranjana Singh, AOR Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Mr. Chaitanya Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Siddhesh Shirish Kotwal, AOR Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Manya Hasija, Adv. Mr. Tejasvi Gupta, Adv. Mr. Pawan Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. T. Illayarasu, Adv. Mr. V. K. Sidharthan, AOR Mr. D. S. Mahra, AOR Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. Merusagar Samantaray, AOR Mr. Anuvrat Sharma, AOR Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv. Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Mr. Barun Kumar Sinha, A.A.G. Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv. Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Ms. Meena K Poulose, Adv. Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Adv. Mr. Mohit Prasad, Adv. Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, A.A.G. Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Mishra, A.A.G. Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Ms. Mrigna Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Sharma, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Ms. Yamini Singh, Adv.

Ms. Raavi Sharma, Adv. M/S. K J John And Co, AOR Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv. General/Sr. Adv. Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Ms. Rekha Bakshi, Adv. Mr. Shaurya Sahay, Adv. Mr. Aditya S. Pandey, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Sehrawat, Adv. Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Manendra Pal Gupta, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, Adv. Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Ms. Devyani Bhatt, Adv. Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, AOR Mr. Gurminder Singh, Adv Gen Punjab/Sr. Adv. Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR Mr. Mayank Dahiya, Adv. Ms. Sugandh Rathor, Adv. Mr. Kuldip Singh, AOR Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Anand Kumar Dubey, Adv. Ms. Harsha Sharma, Adv. Mr. Simanta Kumar, Adv. Mr. Devvrat Singh, Adv. Mr. Jainendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Maneesh Pathak, Adv.

Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, A.A.G. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr. C Kranthi Kumar, Adv. Mr. Naman Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv. Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv. Ms. V Keerthana, Adv. Mr. B. Balaji, AOR Mr. Sri Harsha Peechara, Adv. Mr. Duvvuri Subrahmanya Bhanu, Adv. Ms. Pallavi, Adv. Ms. Kriti Sinha, Adv. Mr. Akshat Kulshreshtha, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Kumar Choudhry, AOR Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., AOR Mrs. Swarupama Chaturvedi, AOR Mr. Siddharth Sangal, AOR Ms. Richa Mishra, Adv. Mr. Richa Mishra, Adv. Mr. Chirag Sharma, Adv. Ms. Nilanjani Tandon, Adv. Ms. Harshita Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Parijat Sinha, AOR Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR Mr. Krishna Dev Jagarlamudi, AOR Mr. Mohan Pandey, AOR Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR Mr. Partha Sil, AOR Mr. Rahul Pratap, AOR Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Ms. Maitreyee Jagat Joshi, Adv. Mr. Astik Gupta, Adv. Ms. Akanksha Tomar, Adv. Ms. Priyanka, Adv.

Mr. Argha Roy, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Kumar, Adv. Mr. Mehmood Pracha, Adv. Mr. Syed Ali Ahmad, Adv. Mr. Syed Tanweer Ahmad, Adv. Mr. S S Bandyopadhyay, Adv. Mr. S Kundu, Adv. Mr. Abhaya Nath Das, Adv. Mrs. Barnali Basak, Adv. Mr. Satish Kumar, AOR Mr. Somesh Chandra Jha, AOR Mr. Ajay Tewari, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv. Mr. Mohit Chaudhary, AOR Mr. Harsh Parashar, AOR Ms. Sneha Kalita, AOR Mrs. Swarupama Chaturvedi, AOR Mr. Sanand Ramakrishnan, AOR Mr. Rajeev Mishra, Adv. Mr. Anjani Kumar Mishra, AOR Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, Adv. Mr. Praneet Pranav, Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rahul, Adv. Ms. Bharti Tyagi, AOR Mr. Chander Shekhar, Adv. Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR Mr. Dhawal Uniyal , AOR Mr. Saurabh Mishra, A.A.G. Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Ms. Mrigna Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ashwani Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR Mr. Avijit Roy, AOR

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Mr. Vivek Sharma, AOR Ms. Krishna Sarma, Adv. Mr. Navnit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar, Adv. M/S. Corporate Law Group, AOR

Mr. Abhishek, AOR

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

• 1 Arguments heard in part.
• 2 List the Petitions tomorrow (6 December 2023) for further hearing as part-heard matter.

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