Pavneeta Singh vs. Union Of India Secretary Ministry Of Finance

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COURT NO.1

SECTION PIL-W

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Writ Petition (Civil) No.744/2017

CHITRA SHARMA & ORS.

Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

Respondent $(s)$

(With appln.(s) for impleading party, clarification/direction, <pre>intervention and stav)</pre>

WITH S.L.P.(C) No. 24001/2017 (XI)

W.P.(C) No. $782/2017$ (X)

W.P.(C) No.803/2017 (X)

$W.P.(C) No.860/2017 (X)$

$W.P.(C)$ No.783/2017 (X)

W.P.(C) No. $805/2017$ (X)

(With appln.(s) for stay)

S.L.P.(C) No.24002/2017 (XI)

(With appln.(s) for permission to file SLP/TP, permission to file <pre>additional documents, intervention/impleadment, clarification/</pre> <pre>direction and impleading partv)</pre>

W.P.(C) No.950/2017 (X)

S.L.P.(C) No.36396/2017 (XI)

(With appln.(s) for exemption from filing $c/c$ of the impugned judgment, for impleadment of respondents, permission to file $SLP/TP$ , file additional documents permission to $\quad\text{and}\quad$ <pre>clarification/direction)</pre>

Diary No.33267/2017 (XI)

(With appln.(s) for exemption from filing $c/c$ of the impugned judgment, intervention/impleadment, permission to file SLP/TP, c/delay in refiling and permission to file lengthy list of dates) $W.P.(C)$ No.511/2018 (X)

(With appln.(s) for interim relief)

Date: 19-07-2018 These petitions were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

ied.	HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE
			HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.M. KHANWILKAR
			HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE D.Y. CHANDRACHUD

Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, AOR (A.C.)

For Petitioner(s)	Mr. S. Gokula Krishnan, Adv.<br>Karri Ventata Reddy, Adv.<br>Ms. Revathy Raghava, AOR
	Mr. Manoj Goel, Adv.<br>Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR
	Mr. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyub, AOR
	Mr. Ajit Kumar Sinha, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Ashwarya Sinha, AOR<br>Ms. Priyanka Sinha, Adv.<br>Ms. Mohini Priya, Adv.
WP 782/17	Mr. Arun Monga, Adv.<br>Ms. Divya Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Suryajyoti Singh Paul, Adv.<br>Mr. Gopal Jha, AOR
WP 783/17	Mr. Mehul M. Gupta, Adv.<br>Mr. R.P. Gupta, AOR
SLP 24001/17	Ms. Mohna, AOR<br>Ms. Geetali Talukdar, Adv.
WP 803/17	Mr. Samarendra Nath Verma, Adv.<br>Mr. Karunakar Mahalik, AOR
WP 805/17	Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR
SLP 24002/17	Mr. Shovan Mishra, AOR
WP 950/17	Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, AOR
WP 860/17	Mr. Shantanu Sagar, AOR
SLP 36396/17	Ms. Sujeeta Srivastava, AOR
D.No.33267/17	Mr. Ashok Kumar Jain, Adv.<br>Mr. Pankaj Jain, Adv.<br>Mr. Bijoy Kumar Jain, AOR
For Respondent(s)	Mr. Bishwajit Dubey, Adv.<br>Ms. Srideepa Bhattacharyya, Adv.<br>Mr. Manpreet Lamba, Adv.<br>for M/s.<br>Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
	Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR
	Mr. Fali S. Nariman, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Anupam Lal Das, AOR<br>Mr. Vishal Gupta, Adv.

Mr. Anirudh Singh, Adv. Mr. Krishanu Barua, Adv. Mr. Subhash Sharma, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Raj, Adv. Mr. Sumeet Sharma, Adv. Mr. Paras Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Kabir Singh, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Adishree, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Ms. Swarupama Chaturvedi, AOR Mr. B.N. Dubey, Adv. Mr. S.B. Upadhyay, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sarvjit Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Karan Bhariok, Adv. Mr. Ratik Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akash Tyagi, Adv. M/s. Unuc Legal Llp Mr. Ajit Sharma, AOR Mr. Bijoy Kumar Jain, AOR Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Ms. Madhavi Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Syed Shahid Rizvi, Adv. Mr. Harish V. Shankar, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mrs. Taruna Singh Gohil, AOR Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Mr. Naveen Kumar, AOR Mr. Vishnu Sharma, AOR Ms. Anupama Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sonali Negi, Adv. Mr. Mohit Rai, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Mr. Mangaljit Mukherjee, Adv. Mrs. Debarpita Basu Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. B.P. Yadav, Adv. Mrs. Sarla Chandra, AOR Mr. Arun K. Sinha, AOR Ms. Prerna Mehta, AOR

Mr. Rohit Singh, Adv. Mr. Sachin Patil, AOR Mr. Partha Sil, AOR Mr. C.A. Sundaram, Sr. Adv. Ms. Kavita Jha, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Kulkarni, Adv. Mr. Udit Naresh, Adv. Mr. M. A. Krishna Moorthy, AOR Mr. K. K. Mohan, AOR Mr. Raj Kishor Choudhary, AOR Mr. Rajiv K. Virmani, Adv. Mr. Atul Malhotra, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Jain, Adv. Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, AOR Mr. Abhishek Singh, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Adv. Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. R. Sudhindra, Adv. Mr. Saumya Mehrotra, Adv. Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR Ms. Shashi Kiran, AOR Mr. Satish Chandra, Adv. Mr. Manoj Jain, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Maurya, Adv. Mr. Anup Jain, AOR Mr. Abhishek Baid, Adv. Mr. Praneet Das, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Guru, Adv. Mr. Kedar Nath Tripathy, AOR Mr. T. Harish Kumar, AOR Mr. Talha Abdul Rahman, AOR Mr. Abhijat P. Medh, AOR Ms. Sanya Talwar, Adv. Mr. Rajat Navet, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Bakshi, AOR

Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Ravindra Kumar, AOR Mr. S.B. Upadhyay, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pawan Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Sarvjit Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Nishant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ratik Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sharmila Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Ms. Madhusmita Bora, AOR Mr. Pawan Kishore Singh, Adv. Mr. Ram Krishna, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Bisht, Adv. Mr. Ranjan Kumar Pandey, AOR Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR Mr. Shekhar Kumar, AOR Ms. Supriya Juneja, AOR Mr. Bharat Monga, Adv. Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR Mr. Rajeev Kumar Bansal, AOR Mr. Abhishek Yadav, AOR Mr. Amarjit Singh Bedi, AOR Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv. Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv. Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv. Ms. Shireen Shukla, Adv. Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR Mr. Raghavendra Mohan Bajaj, Adv. Ms. Garima Bajaj, AOR Mr. Nakul Dewan, Adv. Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, AOR Mr. Kunwar Aditya Singh, Adv. Mr. P. V. Dinesh, AOR Mr. Anand Grover, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Ramakant Rai, Adv. Ms. Mehak Suri, Adv. Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Sarvam Ritam Khare, AOR Ms. Vrinda Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Md. Rashid Saeed, AOR Ms. Manjeet Chawla, AOR Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Ms. Sujeeta Srivastava, AOR Mr. Apoorv Shukla, Adv. Mr. Kunal Cheema, AOR Mr. Sudhir Naagar, AOR Mrs. Gargi Khanna, AOR Mr. Arun Aggarwal, AOR Mr. Gaurav Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Anindya Prasad Kumar, Adv. Ms. Tishampati Sen, AOR Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Ms. Praveena Gautam, AOR Mr. Neeraj Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Himanshu Shekhar, AOR Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR Ms. Aparna Bhat, AOR Ms. Anne Mathew, AOR Ms. Anannya Ghosh, AOR Mr. Amit Pawan, AOR Mr. Ambhoj Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. Alok Shukla, AOR

Mr. Wajeeh Shafiq, AOR

Mr. Vikas Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Vidit Monga, Adv. Mr. Jasbir Singh Malik, Adv. Ms. Usha Nandini, AOR Mr. Sushil Kumar Singh, AOR Ms. Tasneem Ahamdi, Adv. Mr. Sudhir Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Abhinav Gupta, Adv. Ms. Mahima Rathi, Adv. Mr. Subodh S. Patil, AOR Mr. Umakant Mishra, Adv. Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR Mr. Shiv Sagar Tiwari, AOR Mr. Akash Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Shishir Pinaki, AOR Ms. Shashi Kiran, AOR Ms. Priya Sharma, Adv. Mr. Prathvi Raj Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Arjun Sain, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. Yunus Malik, Adv. Ms. Renu Verma, Adv. Mr. Anish Maheshwari, Adv. Ms. Farha Malik, Adv. Mr. Samir Malik, AOR Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. Sonam Sharma, Adv. Ms. Rakhi Ray, AOR Mr. Rajender Prasad, AOR Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR Ms. Puja Sharma, AOR Ms. Garima Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mohit Chaudhary, Adv.

Mr. Suchit Mohanty, Adv. Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR Mr. Niraj Gupta, AOR Ms. Anshu C., Adv. Mr. Mukesh Jain, AOR Md. Shahid Anwar, AOR Ms. Mona Dikshit, Adv. Ms. Yamini Dikshit, Adv. Mr. Mayank Pandey, AOR Ms. Madhusmita Bora, AOR Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Ravi Chandra Prakash, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Vani Vyas, Adv. Ms. Sushama Singhk, Adv. Mr. Mohit Koushik, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Tripathi, Adv. M/s. Ravi Chandra Prakash & Co. Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, AOR Mr. Girish Chand Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Brijesh Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Lalit Chahar, Adv. Mr. Kailash Prashad Pandey, AOR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Ravi Kishor, Adv. Mr. Niraj Singh, Adv. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Ms. Geetanjali Mohan, AOR Mr. Gaurav Kejriwal, AOR Mr. Ejaj Maqbool, AOR Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR Mr. Christopher D'souza, AOR Mr. Prabhat Rai, Adv. Mr. Prashant Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Braj Kishore Mishra, AOR Mr. Binay Kumar Das, AOR

Ms. Asha Jain Madan, AOR Mr. Anil Nag, AOR Mr. Arun Singh, Adv. Mr. Y. Lokesh, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar Tandale, AOR Mr. Aneesh Mittal, AOR Ms. Shreya Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amarjit Singh Bedi, AOR Mr. Ajay Marwah, AOR Mr. Mool Singh, Adv. Mr. Anand, Adv. Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, AOR Mr. Subhashis Biswas, Adv. Mr. Abhay Kumar, AOR Mr. Anivesh Bharadwaj, Adv. Mr. A. Lakshminarayanan, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Kumar, AOR Mr. Ujjal Banerjee, AOR Ms. Udita Singh, AOR Mr. Somesh Chandra Jha, AOR Mr. Shashank Shekhar Singh, AOR Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR Ms. Surbhi Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Bhattacharya, AOR Mr. L.K. Paonam, Adv. Mrs. Tomthinnganbi Koijam, Adv. Mr. Niraj Bobby Paonam, Adv. Mr. Rahul Sharma, AOR Mr. Santosh K. Sethi, Adv. Mr. Arjun Jaidka, Adv. Mr. Mithilesh Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Krishna Kumar Singh, AOR

Mr. Ajay Jain, Adv. Mr. Pranay Jain, Adv. Mr. Jinendra Jain, AOR Mr. I.C. Jain, Adv. Ms. Aastha Chopra, Adv. Mr. Ajay singh, Adv. Mr. Jay Bhati, AOR Mr. Gagan Gupta, AOR Mr. Saurabh Gupta, Adv. Mr. Bhargava V. Desai, AOR Mr. Ajay Sharma, AOR Mr. Rajesh P., AOR Mr. Sunil Malhotra, Adv. Mr. P.N. Puri, AOR Mr. Rajat Malhotra, Adv. Mrs. Reeta Dewan Puri, Adv. Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, AOR Mr. Ayush Sharma, AOR Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR Mr. Sahil Sethi, Adv. Mr. Shivam Sharma, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Ms. V. Mohana, Sr. Adv. Mr. Syed Shahid Ansari Rizvi, Adv. Mr. Harish V. Shankar, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kr. Sharma, Adv. Mr. Parag P. Tripathi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sumant Batra, Adv. Mr. Syed Sarfaraz Karim, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Rahul Guptak, Adv. Mr. R.P. Singh, Adv. Mr. Rachit Mittal, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankit Khera, Adv.

Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, Adv. Mr. Sushil Pandey, Adv. Mr. Rajendra, Adv. Ms. Rashmi Dubey, Adv. Mr. Samarendra Nath Verma, Adv. Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anil Kr. Mishra, Adv. Mr. A. Rohen Singh, Adv. Mr. Naveen Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. A. Rohen Singh, Adv. Mr. Randhin K. Singh, Adv. Mr. Naveen Kr., Adv. Ms. Kanika Sehgal, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv. Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv. Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv. Ms. Sureen Shukla, Adv. Mr. P.V. Yogeswaran, Adv. Mr. Vivek Sarin, Adv. Mr. Aakarshan Aditya, Adv. Mr. Rashid Saeed, Adv. Mr. Lalit Chauhan, Adv. Ms. Sonal Gupta, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Dash, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Kirpal, Adv. UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R Heard learned counsel for the parties.

Order reserved on the interim relief.

(Chetan Kumar) (H.S. Parasher) A.R.-cum-P.S. Assistant Registrar ITEM NO.16 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.744/2017

CHITRA SHARMA & ORS. Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)

(With appln.(s) for impleading party, clarification/direction, intervention and stay)

WITH S.L.P.(C) No. 24001/2017 (XI)

W.P.(C) No.782/2017 (X)

W.P.(C) No.803/2017 (X)

W.P.(C) No.860/2017 (X)

W.P.(C) No.783/2017 (X)

W.P.(C) No.805/2017 (X)

(With appln.(s) for stay) S.L.P.(C) No.24002/2017 (XI)

(With appln.(s) for permission to file SLP/TP, permission to file additional documents, intervention/impleadment, clarification/ direction and impleading party)

W.P.(C) No.950/2017 (X)

S.L.P.(C) No.36396/2017 (XI)

(With appln.(s) for exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment, for impleadment of respondents, permission to file SLP/TP, permission to file additional documents and clarification/direction)

Diary No.33267/2017 (XI)

(With appln.(s) for exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment, intervention/impleadment, permission to file SLP/TP, c/delay in refiling and permission to file lengthy list of dates) W.P.(C) No.511/2018 (X) (With appln.(s) for interim relief)

Date : 19-07-2018 These petitions were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.M. KHANWILKAR HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE D.Y. CHANDRACHUD

Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, AOR (A.C.)

For Petitioner(s)	Mr. S. Gokula Krishnan, Adv.<br>Karri Ventata Reddy, Adv.<br>Ms. Revathy Raghava, AOR
	Mr. Manoj Goel, Adv.<br>Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR
	Mr. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyub, AOR
	Mr. Ajit Kumar Sinha, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Ashwarya Sinha, AOR<br>Ms. Priyanka Sinha, Adv.<br>Ms. Mohini Priya, Adv.
WP 782/17	Mr. Arun Monga, Adv.<br>Ms. Divya Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Suryajyoti Singh Paul, Adv.<br>Mr. Gopal Jha, AOR
WP 783/17	Mr. Mehul M. Gupta, Adv.<br>Mr. R.P. Gupta, AOR
SLP 24001/17	Ms. Mohna, AOR<br>Ms. Geetali Talukdar, Adv.
WP 803/17	Mr. Samarendra Nath Verma, Adv.<br>Mr. Karunakar Mahalik, AOR
WP 805/17	Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR
SLP 24002/17	Mr. Shovan Mishra, AOR
WP 950/17	Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, AOR
WP 860/17	Mr. Shantanu Sagar, AOR
SLP 36396/17	Ms. Sujeeta Srivastava, AOR
D.No.33267/17	Mr. Ashok Kumar Jain, Adv.<br>Mr. Pankaj Jain, Adv.<br>Mr. Bijoy Kumar Jain, AOR
For Respondent(s)	M/s.<br>Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
	Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR
	Mr. Fali S. Nariman, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Anupam Lal Das, AOR<br>Mr. Vishal Gupta, Adv.<br>Mr. Anirudh Singh, Adv.

Mr. Krishanu Barua, Adv.

Mr. Subhash Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Abhishek Raj, Adv. Mr. Sumeet Sharma, Adv. Mr. Paras Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Kabir Singh, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Adishree, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Ms. Swarupama Chaturvedi, AOR Mr. B.N. Dubey, Adv. Mr. S.B. Upadhyay, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sarvjit Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Karan Bhariok, Adv. Mr. Ratik Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akash Tyagi, Adv. M/s. Unuc Legal Llp Mr. Ajit Sharma, AOR Mr. Bijoy Kumar Jain, AOR Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Ms. Madhavi Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Syed Shahid Rizvi, Adv. Mr. Harish V. Shankar, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mrs. Taruna Singh Gohil, AOR Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Mr. Naveen Kumar, AOR Mr. Vishnu Sharma, AOR Ms. Anupama Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sonali Negi, Adv. Mr. Mohit Rai, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Mr. Mangaljit Mukherjee, Adv. Mrs. Debarpita Basu Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. B.P. Yadav, Adv. Mrs. Sarla Chandra, AOR Mr. Arun K. Sinha, AOR Ms. Prerna Mehta, AOR Mr. Rohit Singh, Adv.

Mr. Sachin Patil, AOR Mr. Partha Sil, AOR Mr. C.A. Sundaram, Sr. Adv. Ms. Kavita Jha, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Kulkarni, Adv. Mr. Udit Naresh, Adv. Mr. M. A. Krishna Moorthy, AOR Mr. K. K. Mohan, AOR Mr. Raj Kishor Choudhary, AOR Mr. Rajiv K. Virmani, Adv. Mr. Atul Malhotra, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Jain, Adv. Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, AOR Mr. Abhishek Singh, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Adv. Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. R. Sudhindra, Adv. Mr. Saumya Mehrotra, Adv. Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR Ms. Shashi Kiran, AOR Mr. Satish Chandra, Adv. Mr. Manoj Jain, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Maurya, Adv. Mr. Anup Jain, AOR Mr. Abhishek Baid, Adv. Mr. Praneet Das, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Guru, Adv. Mr. Kedar Nath Tripathy, AOR Mr. T. Harish Kumar, AOR Mr. Talha Abdul Rahman, AOR Mr. Abhijat P. Medh, AOR Ms. Sanya Talwar, Adv. Mr. Rajat Navet, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Bakshi, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR

Mr. Ravindra Kumar, AOR Mr. S.B. Upadhyay, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pawan Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Sarvjit Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Nishant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ratik Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sharmila Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Ms. Madhusmita Bora, AOR Mr. Pawan Kishore Singh, Adv. Mr. Ram Krishna, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Bisht, Adv. Mr. Ranjan Kumar Pandey, AOR Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR Mr. Shekhar Kumar, AOR Ms. Supriya Juneja, AOR Mr. Bharat Monga, Adv. Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR Mr. Rajeev Kumar Bansal, AOR Mr. Abhishek Yadav, AOR Mr. Amarjit Singh Bedi, AOR Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv. Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv. Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv. Ms. Shireen Shukla, Adv. Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR Mr. Raghavendra Mohan Bajaj, Adv. Ms. Garima Bajaj, AOR Mr. Nakul Dewan, Adv. Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, AOR Mr. Kunwar Aditya Singh, Adv. Mr. P. V. Dinesh, AOR

Mr. Anand Grover, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ramakant Rai, Adv. Ms. Mehak Suri, Adv.

Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Sarvam Ritam Khare, AOR Ms. Vrinda Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Md. Rashid Saeed, AOR Ms. Manjeet Chawla, AOR Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Ms. Sujeeta Srivastava, AOR Mr. Apoorv Shukla, Adv. Mr. Kunal Cheema, AOR Mr. Sudhir Naagar, AOR Mrs. Gargi Khanna, AOR Mr. Arun Aggarwal, AOR Mr. Gaurav Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Anindya Prasad Kumar, Adv. Ms. Tishampati Sen, AOR Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Ms. Praveena Gautam, AOR Mr. Neeraj Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Himanshu Shekhar, AOR Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR Ms. Aparna Bhat, AOR Ms. Anne Mathew, AOR Ms. Anannya Ghosh, AOR Mr. Amit Pawan, AOR Mr. Ambhoj Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. Alok Shukla, AOR Mr. Wajeeh Shafiq, AOR

Mr. Vikas Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Vidit Monga, Adv. Mr. Jasbir Singh Malik, Adv. Ms. Usha Nandini, AOR Mr. Sushil Kumar Singh, AOR Ms. Tasneem Ahamdi, Adv. Mr. Sudhir Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Abhinav Gupta, Adv. Ms. Mahima Rathi, Adv. Mr. Subodh S. Patil, AOR Mr. Umakant Mishra, Adv. Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR Mr. Shiv Sagar Tiwari, AOR Mr. Akash Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Shishir Pinaki, AOR Ms. Shashi Kiran, AOR Ms. Priya Sharma, Adv. Mr. Prathvi Raj Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Arjun Sain, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. Yunus Malik, Adv. Ms. Renu Verma, Adv. Mr. Anish Maheshwari, Adv. Ms. Farha Malik, Adv. Mr. Samir Malik, AOR Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. Sonam Sharma, Adv. Ms. Rakhi Ray, AOR Mr. Rajender Prasad, AOR Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR Ms. Puja Sharma, AOR Ms. Garima Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mohit Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Suchit Mohanty, Adv. Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR Mr. Niraj Gupta, AOR Ms. Anshu C., Adv. Mr. Mukesh Jain, AOR Md. Shahid Anwar, AOR Ms. Mona Dikshit, Adv. Ms. Yamini Dikshit, Adv. Mr. Mayank Pandey, AOR Ms. Madhusmita Bora, AOR Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Ravi Chandra Prakash, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Vani Vyas, Adv. Ms. Sushama Singhk, Adv. Mr. Mohit Koushik, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Tripathi, Adv. M/s. Ravi Chandra Prakash & Co. Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, AOR Mr. Girish Chand Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Brijesh Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Lalit Chahar, Adv. Mr. Kailash Prashad Pandey, AOR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Ravi Kishor, Adv. Mr. Niraj Singh, Adv. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Ms. Geetanjali Mohan, AOR Mr. Gaurav Kejriwal, AOR Mr. Ejaj Maqbool, AOR Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR Mr. Christopher D'souza, AOR Mr. Prabhat Rai, Adv. Mr. Prashant Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Braj Kishore Mishra, AOR Mr. Binay Kumar Das, AOR Ms. Asha Jain Madan, AOR

Mr. Anil Nag, AOR Mr. Arun Singh, Adv. Mr. Y. Lokesh, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar Tandale, AOR Mr. Aneesh Mittal, AOR Ms. Shreya Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amarjit Singh Bedi, AOR Mr. Ajay Marwah, AOR Mr. Mool Singh, Adv. Mr. Anand, Adv. Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, AOR Mr. Subhashis Biswas, Adv. Mr. Abhay Kumar, AOR Mr. Anivesh Bharadwaj, Adv. Mr. A. Lakshminarayanan, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Kumar, AOR Mr. Ujjal Banerjee, AOR Ms. Udita Singh, AOR Mr. Somesh Chandra Jha, AOR Mr. Shashank Shekhar Singh, AOR Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR Ms. Surbhi Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Bhattacharya, AOR Mr. L.K. Paonam, Adv. Mrs. Tomthinnganbi Koijam, Adv. Mr. Niraj Bobby Paonam, Adv. Mr. Rahul Sharma, AOR Mr. Santosh K. Sethi, Adv. Mr. Arjun Jaidka, Adv. Mr. Mithilesh Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Krishna Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Ajay Jain, Adv.

Mr. Pranay Jain, Adv. Mr. Jinendra Jain, AOR Mr. I.C. Jain, Adv. Ms. Aastha Chopra, Adv. Mr. Ajay singh, Adv. Mr. Jay Bhati, AOR Mr. Gagan Gupta, AOR Mr. Saurabh Gupta, Adv. Mr. Bhargava V. Desai, AOR Mr. Ajay Sharma, AOR Mr. Rajesh P., AOR Mr. Sunil Malhotra, Adv. Mr. P.N. Puri, AOR Mr. Rajat Malhotra, Adv. Mrs. Reeta Dewan Puri, Adv. Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, AOR Mr. Ayush Sharma, AOR Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR Mr. Sahil Sethi, Adv. Mr. Shivam Sharma, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Ms. V. Mohana, Sr. Adv. Mr. Syed Shahid Ansari Rizvi, Adv. Mr. Harish V. Shankar, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kr. Sharma, Adv. Mr. Parag P. Tripathi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sumant Batra, Adv. Mr. Syed Sarfaraz Karim, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Rahul Guptak, Adv. Mr. R.P. Singh, Adv. Mr. Rachit Mittal, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankit Khera, Adv. Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.

Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, Adv. Mr. Sushil Pandey, Adv. Mr. Rajendra, Adv. Ms. Rashmi Dubey, Adv. Mr. Samarendra Nath Verma, Adv. Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anil Kr. Mishra, Adv. Mr. A. Rohen Singh, Adv. Mr. Naveen Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. A. Rohen Singh, Adv. Mr. Randhin K. Singh, Adv. Mr. Naveen Kr., Adv. Ms. Kanika Sehgal, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv. Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv. Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv. Ms. Sureen Shukla, Adv. Mr. P.V. Yogeswaran, Adv. Mr. Vivek Sarin, Adv. Mr. Aakarshan Aditya, Adv. Mr. Rashid Saeed, Adv. Mr. Lalit Chauhan, Adv. Ms. Sonal Gupta, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Dash, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Kirpal, Adv.

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

Heard learned counsel for the parties.

Order reserved on the interim relief.

(Chetan Kumar) (H.S. Parasher) A.R.-cum-P.S. Assistant Registrar