All Assam Ahom Association Represented By Its President Mr. Jnanandan Phukan vs. Union Of India Represented By The Secretary

ITEM NO.301+302 COURT NO.3 SECTIONS PIL-W, X, XIV

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

ASSAM PUBLIC WORKS PETITIONER(S)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. RESPONDENT(S)

(IA NO.107482/2017-REPORT DTD 12/10/17 OF SH. PRATEEK HAJELA, PROJECT COORDINATOR AND IA NO.110873/2017-IMPLEADING PARTY AND IA NO.121402/2017-CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION)

WITH

W.P.(C) NO. 562/2012 (X) (WITH IA NO.114708/2017-EARLY HEARING APPLICATION)

W.P.(C) NO. 916/2014 (PIL-W) (WITH IA 1/2014 FOR STAY APPLICATION IA 2/2015 FOR PERMISSION TO FILE ANNEXURES IA 3/2015 FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. AND IA NO.119677/2017-IMPLEADING PARTY)

W.P.(C) NO. 876/2014 (X) (WITH IA 1/2014 FOR STAY APPLICATION)

W.P.(C) NO. 311/2015 (X) (WITH IA 1/2015 FOR SEEKING LEAVE TO FILE WRITTEN ARGUMENTS AND IA 2/2015 )

W.P.(C) NO. 449/2015 (X) (WITH IA 1/2015)

W.P.(C) NO. 450/2015 (X) (WITH IA 1/2015)

W.P.(C) NO. 68/2016 (PIL-W) (WITH IA 1/2017 FOR INTERVENTION APPLICATION) Digitally signed by VINOD LAKHINA Date: 2017.11.23 17:49:59 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

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SLP(C) NO. 13259/2017 (XIV) (WITH IA NO.101687/2017-APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS)

SLP(C) NO. 13260/2017 (XIV) (WITH IA NO.112585/2017-APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS)

SLP(C) NO. 13256/2017 (XIV) (WITH IA NO.75986/2017-INTERVENTION APPLICATION AND IA NO.86818/2017-IMPLEADING PARTY)

SLP(C) NO. 13258/2017 (XIV) ( WITH IA NO.112594/2017-APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS)

SLP(C) NO. 12647/2017 (XIV) (WITH IA NO.103358/2017-PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS IA NO.123868/2017-PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS AND IA NO.123872/2017-EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.)

SLP(C) NO. 13257/2017 (XIV) (WITH IA NO.112589/2017-APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS)

DIARY NO(S). 13544/2017 (XIV) (WITH IA NO.43274/2017-CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING IA NO.43277/2017-EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. AND IA NO.43276/2017-PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS)

SLP(C) NO. 16441/2017 (XIV)

SLP(C) NO. 28935/2017 (XIV)

Writ Petition((C) No.1020/2017 (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.107995/2017-APPLICATION FOR DIRECTIONS)

Date : 22-11-2017 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RANJAN GOGOI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ROHINTON FALI NARIMAN

For Parties

Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR

Mr. Manish Goswami, Adv.

Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR

	Mr. Santi Ranjan Das, Adv.<br>Mr. Anindo Mukherjee, Adv.<br>Ms. Sarla Chandra, AOR
	Mr. Somiran Sharma, AOR
	Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv.
	Mr. Imtiaz Ahmed, Adv.
	Ms. Naghma Imtiaz, Adv.
	Mr. Ahmed Zargham, Adv.
	Ms. Amra Moosavi, Adv.
	Mr. Mohammad Ibrahim,Adv.<br>For<br>M/S. Equity Lex Associates, AOR
WP(C) 1020/17	Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv.
	Mr. Syed Burhanur Rahman, Adv.
	Mr. Gaurav Agarwal, Adv.
	Mr. B.H. Marlapalle, Sr. Adv.
	Mr. N.H. Mazar Bhuiyan,adv.
	Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, AOR
	Mr. A.S. Tapadar, Adv.
	Ms. Akriti Chaubey, Adv.
	Ms. Tanya Shree, Adv.
	Mr. B.H. Marlapalle, Sr. Adv.
	Mr. N.H. Mazar Bhuiyan,adv.
	Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, AOR
	Mr. A.S. Tapadar, Adv.
	Ms. Akriti Chaubey, Adv.
	Ms. Tanya Shree, Adv.
UOI	Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG
	Mr. Tushar Mehta,ASG
	Ms. Binu Tamta, Adv.
	Ms. Rashmi Malhotra, Adv.
	Ms. Rekha Pandey, Adv.
	Mr. R.M. Bajaj, Adv.
	Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.
	Mr. B.V. Balramdas, Adv.
	Mr. Ankur,Adv.

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State of Goa Mr. Atmaram N.S. Nadkarni,ASG Mr. Merusagar Samantaray, AOR. Mr. Salvedor S.Rebello, Adv. Ms. Lhingneivah, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Bhadwaj, Adv. Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr.Adv. Ms. Indira Jaising, Sr.Adv. Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv. Mr. V.K.Tankha, Sr.Adv. Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde, Sr. Adv. Mr. F.A. Ayyubi, AOR Mr. Shakeel Ahmad Syed, Adv. Mr. Abdul Qadir, Adv. Mr. Mustafa Khaddam Hussain, Adv. Mr. Varun Mishra, Adv. Ms. Lubna Naaz, Adv. Ms. Kamna Singh, Adv. Ms. Tehseena Hussain, Adv. Mr. Ibad, Adv. Ms. Aditi Gupta, Adv. Mr. Pranjal Kishor, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Mr. Ajit Kumar Sinha, Sr. Adv. Ms. Kiran Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Adv. Mr. B.H. Marlapalle, Sr. Adv. Mr. N.H. Mazar Bhuiyan, Adv. Mr. Shakeel Ahmed, AOR Mr. A.S. Tapadar, Adv. Mr. B.D.Jha, Adv. Ms. Sadiya Shakeel, Adv. Ms. Preeti Jha, Adv. Mr. A.K. Talukdr, Adv. Mr. A. Ilam, Adv. Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr.Adv.

• Mr. Tariq Adeeb, Adv.
• Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR

Mr. Raju Ramachandran, Sr.Adv. Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR Ms. Fauzia Shakil, Adv. Mr. Syed Burhanur Rahman, Adv. Mr. Abdul Wadud Aman, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv. Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan, Adv. Mr. Shakil Ahmad Syed, AOR Mr. Mohd. Parvez Dabas, Adv. Ms. Uzmi Jameel Husain, Adv. Mr. Pulkit Chandra, Adv. Mr. Shakeel Ahmed, AOR Mr. B.D.Jha, Adv. Ms. Sadiya Shakeel, Adv. Ms. Preeti Jha, Adv. State of W.B. Mr. Raja Chatterjee, Adv. Ms. Runa Bhuiyan, Adv. Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Gauhati H.C. Ms. Sneha kalita,AOR Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, AOR Mr. C. George Thomas, Adv. Ms. Akriti Chaubey, Adv. Ms. Tanya Shree, Adv. Ms. Qurratulain, Adv. Mr. G.S.Chauhan,Adv. Mr. Manoj Goel,Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR. Mr. Naman Kamboj, Adv. Ms. L.S. Changsan, Principal Secy. Home & Political Deptt. Mr. Sunil Murarka, Adv. Mr. Partha Sil,AOR Mr. Tavish B. Prasad, Adv. Mr. Partha Sil,AOR Mr. Tavish B. Prasad, Adv.

	Mr. Mehmood Pracha, Adv.<br>Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR<br>Mr. Prateek Gupta, Adv.<br>Mr. R.H.A. Sikander,Adv.
State of U.P.	Ms. Alka Sinha, Adv.<br>Mr. Anuvrat Sharma, AOR
State of<br>Uttarakhand	Ms. D. Bharathi Reddy, AOR<br>Ms. Rachna Gandhi,Adv.
	Mr. Debojit Borkakati, AOR
	Ms. Arna Das,Adv.<br>Mr. Gaurav Dhingra, AOR
State of Nagaland	Mr. Edward Belho, AAG<br>Ms. K.Enatoli Sema, AOR<br>Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv.<br>Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv.
	Ms. Abha R. Sharma, AOR<br>Mr. D.S. Parmar, Adv.<br>Ms. Sujeeta Srivastava, Adv.
State of Telangana	Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR<br>Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv.
State of Tripura	Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR<br>Mr. Shreyas Jain, Adv.
State of Rajasthan	Mr. S.S. Shamshery, AAG<br>Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Ankit Raj, Adv.<br>Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv.<br>Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR<br>Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR
State of Gujarat	Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR<br>Ms. Jesal Wahi, Adv.<br>Ms. Puja Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv.

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Mr. Syed Ali Ahmad, Adv. Mr. Syed Tanweer Ahmad, Adv. Mr. S.S. Bandyopadhyay, Adv. Mr. Mohan Pandey, AOR. State of Sikkim Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham,Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Ms. Simran Jeet, Adv. For M/s. Arputham Aruna & Co. State of T.N. Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Ms. Sujatha Bagadhi, Adv. State of Mr. A.P. Mayee, Adv. Chhattisgarh Mr. Chirag Jain, Adv. Mr. Prateek Jalan, Adv. Ms. Malvika Trivedi, Adv. Mr. Rahul Kriplani, Adv. Mr. Ankit Yadav, Adv. Ms. Sriparna Dutta Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. T. Mahipal, AOR State of Jharkhand Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Mohd. Waquas, Adv. Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv. State of Karnakata Mr. V.N. Raghupathy,AOR Mr. Parikshit P.Angadi, Adv. UT And.& Nic.Admn. Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv. Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Ms. G.Indira, AOR State of Punjab Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi,AOR Mr. Pratap Venugopal, Adv. Ms. Surekha Raman, Adv. Mr. Anuj Sarma, Adv. Ms. Niharika, Adv. Mr. Aman Shukla, Adv. Ms. Kanika Kalaiyarasan,Adv. For M/s. K.J. John. & Co.

State of Uttarakhand Ms. Rachna Srivastava, AOR Ms. Monika, Adv. Mr. Sukrit R. Kapoor, Adv. Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Mr. Kumar Das, Adv. Mr. Sunil Murarka, Adv. Mr. Asit Kumar Ray,adv. Mr. Snehashish Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Mehmood Pracha, Adv. Mr. R.H.A. Sikander, Adv. Mr. Prateek Gupta, Adv. Mr. Mansoor Ali, Adv. Mr. Chandan Kumar Mandal, Adv. Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Mr. Mohit D. Ram, Adv. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, AOR M/S. Corporate Law Group, AOR Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR Mr. V.K. Sidharthan, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. P.V. Yogeshwaran, AOR Mr. Abinav Mukerji, AOR Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Mr. C.K. Sasi, AOR

Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Kuldip Singh, AOR Mr. B. Balaji, AOR Mr. Ravi Prakash Mehrotra,AOR Mr. Parijat Sinha, AOR Mr. Anurag Pandey, AOR

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

SLP(C) NOS.13256/2017, 13259/2017, 13260/2017, 13258/2017, 12647/2017, 13257/2017, 16441/2017 AND 28935/2017

Heard the learned counsels for the parties.

Hearing concluded.

Judgment reserved.

W.P.(C) NO.1020/2017

Issue notice, returnable on 29th November, 2017.

Since the contesting respondents are represented by learned counsels who are before the Court in other connected matters, no formal notice need be issued. However, extra copies of the writ petition be furnished to the Central Agency on behalf of respondent Nos. 1 and 3; standing counsel for the State of Assam; and Shri Prateek Hajela, learned State Coordinator, NRC, Assam.

I.A. NO.121402 (FOR DIRECTIONS)

List the application on 30th November, 2017.

WRIT PETITION (C) NO.449/2015, 450/2015, 274/2009, 562/2012, 68/2016, 916/2014, 876/2014 AND 311/2015 AND SLP(C) NO...D.NO.13544/2017

List the matters on 29th November, 2017.

We request the Hon'ble the Chief Justice of India to make this bench available on 29th and 30th November, 2017.

[VINOD LAKHINA] [ASHA SONI]

AR-cum-PS BRANCH OFFICER