National Testing Agency vs. Nikita (Minor)

ITEM NO.43 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). 335/2024

VANSHIKA YADAV Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)

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WITH

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

For Petitioner(s) Mr. Narender Hooda, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Sumit Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Rajat Sangwan, Adv. Mr. Hemendra Singh Kashyap, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Yadav, Adv. Mr. Anurag Kulharia, Adv. Mr. Sunny Kadiyan, AOR Dr. Navya Jannu, Adv. Mrs. Parul Dagar, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Sheoran, Adv. Mr. Anas Chaudhary, Adv. Ms. Shehla Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Feroz Shaikh, Adv. Mr. Aamir Naseem, Adv. Mr. Danish Zubair Khan, AOR Mr. Inam Ahmad Khan, Adv. Mr. Sudhir Naagar, AOR Ms. Shaily Tarrar, Adv. Ms. Sonali Vikram Bashi, Adv. Ms. Babli Kaur, Adv. Mr. Subhash Motan, Adv. Mr. Aparna Dubey, Adv. Ms. A Sumathi, Adv. Ms. Ila Shikhar Sheel, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Mr. Avadhesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Shivam Singh, Adv. Ms. Shaswati Parhi, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Parth Sarathi, Adv. Mr. Gyanendra Vikram Singh, Adv. Ms. Soumya Gulati, Adv. Mr. Anuj Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Shubhanshu Gupta, AOR Mr. Chaitanya, Adv. Mr. Kartik Pant, Adv. Mr. Anand Singh, Adv. Mr. Nishesh Sharma, AOR Mr. Sujit Ghosh, Sr. Adv. Dr. Avinash Poddar, Adv. Ms. Anchal Poddar, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Gupta, Adv. Ms. Rudrani Mishra, Adv.

Ms. Samiksha Goswami, Adv. Mr. Devendra Singh, AOR Mr. Shiv Sagar Tiwari, AOR Mr. Raghav Sabharwal, AOR Ms. Tanvi Dubey, Adv. Mr. Anukrit Gupta, Adv. Mr. Mekala Ganesh Kumar Reddy, Adv. Mr. Anilendra Pandey, AOR Mr. C.p. Singh, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Kumar Ranjan, Adv. Ms. Priya Kashyap, Adv. Mr. Suhaas Ratna Joshi, AOR Mr. Mahendra Singh Rawat, Adv. Ms. Mallika Joshi, Adv. Mr. P. Ramesh, Adv. Ms. Charu Mathur, AOR Mr. Basant R., Sr. Adv. Mr. A. Karthik, AOR Mr. Naresh Kaushik, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vardhman Kaushik, AOR Mr. Anand Singh, Adv. Mr. Mayank Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sanjana Mehrotra, Adv. Mr. Nishant Gautam, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Joshi, Adv. Mr. Ajay Kanojiya, Adv. Mr. Vinay Kauhsik, Adv. Mr. Rudra Rout, Adv. Mr. Vinay Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Shikha John, Adv. Mr. Chinmoy Khaladkar, Adv. Mr. B. K. Pal, AOR Mr. Ashish Pandey, AOR Mr. Rishi Kapoor, Adv. Dr. Daksha Sharma, Adv. Mr. Prateek Rai, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Shubham Saxena, Adv. Ms. Aarti Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anmol Goyal, Adv.

Mr. Santosh Paul, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sriharsh Nahush Bundela, AOR Mr. Vedant Mishra, Adv. Mr. Virendra Mohan, Adv. Mr. S.d.singh, Adv. Ms. Bharti Tyagi, AOR Ms. Shweta Sinha, Adv. Mr. Ram Kripal Singh, Adv. Ms. Meenu Singh, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Singh, Adv. Mrs. Mukta Gupta, Adv. Mr. Tanmay Yadav, AOR Mr. Kunal Cheema, AOR Ms. Ruchita Kunal Cheema, Adv. Mr. Raghav Deshpande, Adv. Mr. Shubham Chandankhede, Adv. Mr. Aditya Singh, AOR Mr. Shubham Singh, Adv. Mr. Kamal Kishor, Adv. Mr. Aditya Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Mr. Aman Nandarjog, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Malhotra, Adv. Mr. Alakh Alok Srivastava, AOR Mr. Rishabh Bafna, Adv. Mr. Haris Beeran, Adv. Mr. Azhar Assees, Adv. Mr. Anand B. Menon, Adv. Mr. Radha Shyam Jena, AOR Ms. Meenakshi Kalra, AOR Mr. Aslam Ahmed Jamal, AOR Mr. Rohit Jain, Adv. Ms. Shabiesta Nabi, Adv. Ms. Kheyali Singh, Adv. Mr. Kailashi Uday Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Arun Kumar Arunachal, Adv.

Petitioner-in-person

Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shwetank Sailakwal, AOR Mr. Tanmaya Agarwala, Adv. Mrs. Aditi Agarwala, Adv. Mr. Deepak Panjwani, Adv. Mr. Anas Tanwir, Adv. Mr. Mohammad Asif Abbas, Adv. Mr. Mayank Suryan, Adv. Mr. Shahrukh Ali, Adv. Mr. Ankit Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Tanay Hegde, Adv. Ms. Riya Sharma, Adv. Mr. Raghav Gupta, Adv. Mr. Zaid Raza, Adv. Mr. Prateek Chandra, Adv. Mr. Durgesh Shukla, Adv. Mr. Ebad Ur Rahman, Adv. Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aditya Shanker Pandey, Adv. Ms. Yoothica Pallavi, AOR Mr. Atul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Sehrawat, Adv. Ms. Rekha Bakshi, Adv. Mr. Aditya Kumar, Adv. Mr. Shaurya Sahay, Adv. Mr. Vishal Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Mathews J. Nedumpara, Adv. Ms. Usha Nandini V., AOR Ms. Maria Nedumpara, Adv. Ms. Hemali Kurne, Adv. Ms. Rohini Amin, Adv. Mr. Shameem Fayiz, Adv. Mr. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shamim Ahammed, Adv. Mr. Supratik Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Arnab Sinha, Adv. Mr. Arko Maity, Adv. Mr. Saurav Gupta, AOR For Respondent(s) Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. K Parmeshwar, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Mayank Pandey, Adv. Mr. Udai Khanna, Adv.

Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Samarpit Gupta, Adv. Mr. Ivan, Adv. Mr. Vivek Mathur, AOR Mr. Gauhar Mirza, Adv. Mr. Sanyat Lodha, AOR Ms. Bhumika Kapoor, Adv. Ms. Neharika Chhabra, Adv. Ms. Shivani Mehta, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Naresh Kaushik, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vardhman Kaushik, AOR Mr. Nishant Gautam, Adv. Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Joshi, Adv. Mr. Mayank Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anand Singh, Adv. Ms. Sanjana Mehrotra, Adv. Mr. Ajay Kanojiya, Adv. Mr. Shubham Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Rudra Rout, Adv. Mr. Vinay Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Shikha John, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, AOR Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G. Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, Adv. Mrs. Abhinandini Sharma, Adv. Mr. Deepak Verma, 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. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Himanshu Chakravarty, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR Mr. Mayank Aggarwal, AOR Mr. Pradeep Kumar Aggarwal, Adv.

Mr. Sanchit Garga, AOR Mr. Nikhil Jain, AOR Ms. Divya Jain, Adv. Mr. Varun Punia, AOR Mr. Sudhanshu Choudhari, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sudhir Patil, Adv. Ms. Pranjal Chapalgaonkar, Adv. Ms. Gautami Yadav, Adv. Mrs. Sangeeta S. Pahune Patil, Adv. Mr. Sagar Pahune Patil, AOR Mr. Abhinav Raghuvanshi, AOR Mr. Kushagra Pandey, Adv. Mr. Avinash Traipathi, Adv. Mr. Abhilash M.r., Adv. Mr. Sayooj Mohandas M, Adv. Mr. Gautam Kumar Laha, Adv. Ms. Sandra Jaison, Adv. Mr. Arun Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rajkumar, Adv. M/S. M R Law Associates, AOR Mr. Ashwin Kumar Nair, AOR Mr. P.V. Dinesh, Sr. Adv. Ms. Anna Oommen, Adv. Ms. Anne Mathew, AOR Mr. Ardhendumauli Kumar Prasad, Sr. Adv. Mr. Namit Saxena, AOR Mr. Divik Mathur, Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Ms. Sangeeta Joshi, Adv. Mr. Ram Dass Rathore, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Deeksha Gaur, Adv. Mr. S.K. Bandyopadhyay, Adv. Mr. M.P. Singh, Adv. Mr. Y.K. Prasad, Adv. Dr. Narendra Sharma, Adv. Mr. Thomas P Joseph, Sr. Adv. Mr. A Hariprasad, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Bijo Mathew Joy, AOR Ms. Anzu K Varkey, Adv. Ms. Swathi H Prasad, Adv. Ms. Gifty Marium Joseph, Adv. Mr. Dinny Thomas, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Yashaswi Sk Chocksey, Adv. Mr. Ankit Singh, Adv. Mr. Sushant, Adv. Mr. Vijay Rajput, Adv. Mr. Yashish Chandra, Adv. Ms. Arundhati Jain, Adv. Ms. Ankita Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Rajneesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Sujit Ghosh, Sr. Adv. Dr. Avinash Poddar, Adv. Ms. Anchal Poddar, Adv. Dr. Gaurav Gupta, Adv. Ms. Rudrani Mishra, Adv. Ms. Samiksha Goswami, Adv. Mr. Devendra Singh, AOR

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

• 1 In compliance with the previous order passed by this Court, The National Testing Agency and the Union of India have filed their responses.
• 2 Some of the counsel appearing for the respondents have not been able to receive electronic copies of the responses. Soft copies of the responses shall be supplied to them.
• 3 In order to enable parties to consider the responses which have been filed, List the Petitions for further hearing on 18 July 2024.

(GULSHAN KUMAR ARORA) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR)

AR-CUM-PS ASSISTANT REGISTRAR