COURT NO.14

SECTION X

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

<pre>Writ Petition (Civil) No.132/2016</pre>

RAJNEESH KUMAR PANDEY & ORS.

Petitioner(s)

<pre>Respondent(s)</pre>

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

	(Mr. Rishi Malhotra [Amicus Curie].
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IA No. 174217/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 146544/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 97651/2018 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 6824/2021 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES IA No. 131315/2018 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES IA No. 6/2017 - PERMISSION TO FILE ANNEXURES IA No. 3/2017 - PERMISSION TO FILE ANNEXURES IA No. 1/2016 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES) WITH W.P.(C) No. 876/2017 (X) (FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. ON IA 29329/2018 FOR impleading party ON IA 29969/2018 FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT ON IA 29969/2018 FOR impleading party ON IA 7557/2019 FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT ON IA 7557/2019 IA No. 29329/2018 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. IA No. 7557/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 29969/2018 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 591/2022 in W.P.(C) No. 132/2016 (X) (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.136828/2022-EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 856/2023 in W.P.(C) No. 132/2016 (X) (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.62867/2023-EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) W.P.(C) No. 1099/2023 (X) (FOR ADMISSION) Date : 05-12-2023 These matters were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C.T. RAVIKUMAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR For Petitioner(s) Mr. Gaurang Kumar Das, Adv. Mr. Sukesh Ghosh, Adv. Mr. P.C.Das, Adv. Mr. Sushanta Datta, Adv. Mr. Harsh Verma, Adv. Mr. Rahul Mohod, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Gyan, Adv. Mr. Chand Qureshi, AOR Mr. Shoeb Alam, Adv. Mr. Prashant Shukla, Adv. Mr. Suyash Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Giridhar Upadhayay, Adv. Ms. Mohini Kumari, Adv. Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, AOR

For Respondent(s) Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, Ld. ASG Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. R. Bala, Sr. Adv. Ms. Nidhi Khanna, Adv. Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, Adv. Ms. Vimla Sinha, Adv. Ms. Preeti Rani, Adv. Ms. Rukhmini Bobde, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Mr. Anand Grover, Sr. Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Ms. Ripul Swati Kumari, Adv. Mr. Tanmaya Agarwal, AOR Mr. Ardhendumauli Prasad, Ld. AAG Mr. Krishnanand Pandeya, AOR Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR Mr. Vinay Garg, AOR Mr. Anuvrat Sharma, AOR Mr. Vikrant Narayan Vasudeva, AOR Mr. Sarthak Chiller, Adv. Mr. Rohit Singh, Adv. Mr. Rohit Lochav, Adv. Ms. G. Indira, AOR Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Ms. Mrinal Elkar Mazumdar, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kr. Verma, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kr. Sharma, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, AOR Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, Ld. ASG Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Ms. Devyani Bhatt, Adv. Ms. Neha Singh, Adv.

Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR Mr. Anand Grover, Sr. Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Ms. Ripul Swati Kumari, Adv. Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR Mr. Krishnam Mishar, Adv. Mr. Param Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Prashant Manchanda, Ld. A.A.G. Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR Mr. Mayank Dahiya, Adv. Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, AOR M/S. Venkat Palwai Law Associates, AOR Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. Anil Nag, AOR Mr. Satish Pandey, AOR Mr. Akbar Ali, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Bankura, Adv. Mr. Braj Kishore Mishra, Adv. Mrs. Lalita Gupta, Adv. Ms. Jay Jaimini Pandey, Adv. Ms. Sadiya Sakeel, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Manmohan Sharma, Adv. Mr. Harendra Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shah Syed Samar Rehman, Adv. Mr. Abdul Qadir, Adv. Mrs. Gulfeshan Javed, Adv. Mr. Atiqur Rahman Siddiqui, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR Mr. Ravindra S. Garia, AOR Mr. Shashank Singh, Adv. Mr. Vikas Negi, Adv. Mr. Kapil Dev, Adv. Mr. Piyush Dwivedi, AOR Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv.

Ms. Anindita Pujari, AOR Mr. Shaileshwar Yadav, Adv. Ms. Radhika Mohapatra, Adv. Ms. Bumika Chouksey, Adv. Mr. Ravindra Sadanand Chingale, AOR Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Kabir Shankar Bose, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv. Mr. D. Mahesh Babu, AOR Mr. Ashok Panigrahi, AOR Mr. Nabab Singh, Adv. Ms. Geetanjali Das Krishnan, Adv. Mr. Dharmendar Singh, Adv. Ms. Srishti Agnihotri, AOR Ms. Sanjana Grace Thomas, Adv. Mr. D.P. Singh, Adv. Ms. Tara Kurien, Adv. Mr. Rishi Malhotra, AOR Mr. Anand Shankar, AOR Mr. Santosh Krishnan, AOR Mr. Girish Chowdhary, Adv. Ms. Deepshikha Sansanwal, Adv. Mr. Basava Prabhu S. Patil, Ld. AG State Of Sikkim Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Ms. Nishi Sangtani, Adv. Ms. Vani Vandana Chhetri, Adv. Mr. Zinnea Mehta, Adv. Mr. Naman Jain, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Abbas, Adv. Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR Ms. Taruna Ardhendumauli Prasad, AOR

Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mrs. Anu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Abraham Mathew, Adv. Mr. Harmeet Singh Ruprah, D.A.G. Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Ms. Samridhi Jain, Adv. Ms. Maitreyee Jagat Joshi, Adv. Mr. Astik Gupta, Adv. Ms. Akanksha Tomar, Adv. Ms. Argha Roy, Adv. Ms. Priyanka, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Kumar, Adv. Mr. D. Kumanan, AOR Mrs. Deepa. S, Adv. Mr. Sheikh F. Kalia, Adv. Mr. Sumer Sodhi, Adv. Ms. Chaitanya Sharma, Adv. Mr Avijitmani Tripathi, AOR Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv. Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv. Mr. Pradhuman Gohil, Adv. Ms. Taruna Singh Gohil, AOR Ms. Ranu Purohit, Adv. Mr. Alapati Sahithya Krishna, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Mittal, Adv. Mr. Rushabh Kapadia, Adv. Mr. T.L.V. Ramachari, Adv. Mr. Hitsh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Ms. Ritika Raj, Adv. Ms. Komal, Adv. Ms. Niharika D., Adv. Mr. T.N. Rama Rao, Adv. Mr. Sriharsha Peechara, Adv. Mr. Duvvuri Subrahmanya Bhanu, Adv. Ms. Pallavi, Adv. Ms. Kriti Sinha, Adv. Mr. Akshat Kulshreshtha, Adv.

Mr. Rajiv Kumar Choudhary, Adv.

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

In Re.: Goa, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Andaman and Niocobar, Chandigarh, Daman and Diu, Delhi and Puducherry

Access to education has been regarded as a Fundamental Right as per Article 21 of the Constitution of India, 1950. With a view to bring the children who are disabled or suffer from any kind of disability or who are mentally challenged, to the mainstream for giving education, Legislature enacted laws. Evidently, such laws envisaged separate schools with distinctly trained teachers to achieve the avowed purpose of such enactments. This Court issued several orders previously in respect of various issues specifically referred thereunder. Despite the order dated 17.10.2023 of this Court whereunder after taking note of the failure on the part of the States/ Union Territories to place on record affidavits in terms of the earlier order dated 22.08.2023, this Court directed the Chief Secretaries of the respective States and the Union Territories to ensure filing appropriate affidavits in terms of order dated 22.08.2023 within the time stipulated thereunder. That apart, it was ordered that such he affidavits should also contain the details such as the number of school in the respective States and Union Territories besides the number of the sanctioned posts and such other details which are furnished as per order dated 22.08.2023. Thereafter, it was cautioned that in case of failure of any State/ Union Territory to file affidavit in terms of the said order, the matter would be taken seriously, taking note of the nature of the issues involved. We find that despite such orders carrying such a caution, some of the States/ Union Territories failed to file affidavits despite the sounding the caution that failure would be viewed seriously and the Chief Secretaries of the respective States/ Union Territories were directed to ensure filing of appropriate affidavits.

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We are of the considered view that the failure to file affidavit taking into account the very purpose of enactment i.e. the Right to Education Act, 2009, Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 and the Right of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and the nature of the pending proceedings, has to be viewed seriously.

In the said circumstances, the Chief Secretaries of the States/ Union Territories mentioned above which failed to comply with the order by filing affidavits in terms of Order dated 17.10.2023 shall appear in person before this Court, without fail, on 06.02.2024.

List the matters on 06.02.2024.

COURT MASTER (SH) COURT MASTER (NSH)

(VIJAY KUMAR) (MATHEW ABRAHAM)