Hindalco Industries Ltd vs. The State Of Uttar Pradesh Thr. Its Principal Secretary

COURT NO.4

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Civil Appeal No.5333/2002

DALMIA INDUSTRIES LTD.

Appellant( $s$ )

Respondent $(s)$

VERSUS

THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU & ANR.

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Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General

For Appellant(s) : Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, AOR

Mr. Uddyam Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Swapnil Pattanayak, Adv. Mr. Agnibha Chatterjee, Adv. Mr. Kunal Verma, AOR Mr. H. D. Thanvi, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Achal Singh Bule, Adv. Mr. Rishi Matoliya, AOR M/S. Gagrat And Co, AOR Mr. Ujjwal A. Rana, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Mehta, Adv. Ms. Sumita Hazarika, AOR Ms. Kalpana Tirpathi, Adv. Mr. Lalgoulen Kipgen, Adv. Mr. Prakhar Gupta, Adv. Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Ms. Samyuktha H Nair, Adv. Mr. S. K. Verma, AOR Mrs. Sheela Goel, AOR Ms. Vanita Bhargava, Adv. Mr. Aakash Bajaj, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Juneja, Adv. Mr. Ajay Bhargava, Adv. Mr. Avirat Kumar, Adv. Ms. Monika Singh, Adv. Ms. Muskan Narang, Adv. Ms. Nandita Chauhan, Adv. Ms. Tijil Thakur, Adv. M/S. Khaitan & Co., AOR Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, AOR Mr. Ashwarya Sinha, AOR Mr. Aditya Malhotra, Adv.

Dr Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR

Ms. Manjeet Kirpal, AOR Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Shailendra Swarup, AOR Ms. Bindu Saxena, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Ms. Aparajita Swarup, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Akshaya Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Ms. Sharmila Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Pawan R Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Sarvjit Pratap Singh, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. Gp. Capt. Karan Singh Bhati, AOR Mr. Nithin Chowdary Pavuluri, Adv. Ms. Poornima Singh, Adv. Ms. Manisha Chava, Adv. Ms. Shagun Thakur, Adv. Ms. Bln Shivani, Adv. Mr. Rustam Singh Chauhan, Adv. Ms. Sthavi Asthana, Adv. Mr. Ashwin Joseph, Adv. Ms. Shreya Jain, Adv. Ms. Shivika Mehra, Adv. Ms. Anupriya Srivastava, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputam, Adv. Mr. Akshaj Singh, Adv. Ms. Radhika Misra, Adv. Mr. Sunit Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Vasu Vats, Adv. Ms. Riddhi Jad, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Gupta, Adv. Mr. P. S. Sudheer, AOR Mr. Rishi Maheshwari, Adv. Ms. Anne Mathew, Adv. Mr. Bharat Sood, Adv. Mr. Jai Govind M J, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Sunil Kumar Jain, AOR

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Mr. Shaantanu Jain, Adv. Ms. Rashika Swarup, Adv. Mr. Naman Jain, Adv. Mr. Surender Kumar Gupta, AOR Ms. Mokshita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Arvind P. Datar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nikhil Swami, Adv. Mrs. Prabha Swami, AOR Ms. Divya Swami, Adv. Mr. Syed Shahid Hussain Rizvi, AOR Mr. Abhimanyu Bhandari, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashok K. Parija, Sr. Adv. Mr. Naveen Kumar, AOR Ms. Roohe Hina Dua, Adv. Ms. Stuti Bisht, Adv. Mr. Harshit Khanduja, Adv. Mr. Nitesh Bhandari, Adv. Ms. Dhankshi Gandhi, Adv. Mr. Prabhat Kumar Rai, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Singh, Adv. Mr. Maitreya, Adv. Mr. Aditya Goyal, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Kr. Rai, Adv. Ms. Esha Kumar, Adv. Mr. Utkarsh Chandra, Adv. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Mr. Keshav Singh, Adv. Mr. Praveen Kumar, AOR Ms. Sunaina Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ram Lal Roy, AOR Mr. K. V. Mohan, AOR Mr. K.v.balakrishnan, Adv. Mr. R.k.raghavan, Adv.

Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv.

Mr. Rishi Agrawala,, Adv. Mr. Ninad Laud, Adv. Mr. M.s. Ananth, Adv. Mr. Anshuman Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Abhinabh Garg, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Abhinabh Garg, Adv. Mr. Chirag Nayak, Adv. Ms. S. Lakshmi Iyer, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Saraswat, Adv. Mr. Zubin Dash, Adv. Mr. Basava Prabhu S Patil, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Arijeet Shukal, Adv. Mr. Samarth Kashyap, Adv. Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Ms. Nandini Sen Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Suyash Mohan Guru, Adv. Mr. Sumit Teterrwal, AOR For Respondent(s) : Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G. Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, Adv. Ms. Ruchira Goel, AOR Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, A.A.G. Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, AOR Ms. Rashmi Singhania, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Gupta, AOR Mr. K.radhakrishnan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Mr. C. Kranthi Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv. Ms. Jahnavi Taneja, Adv. Mr. Veshal Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv. Ms. Nilofar Khan, AOR

Ms. Devina Sehgal, AOR Mr. Yatharth Kansal, Adv. Ms. Mrinal Gopal Elker, AOR Mr. Rohit K. Singh, AOR Mr. Harsh Parashar, AOR Mr. S.. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, Sr. Advocate, A.A.G. Ms. Purnima Krishna, AOR Mr. M.f. Philip, Adv. Mr. Karamveer Singh Yadav, Adv. Mr. Togin M. Babichen, Adv. Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mr. R Venkataraman, Attorney General for India Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. K Parameshwar, Adv. Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Ms. Rukhmini Bobde, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Mr. Kartikay Aggarwal, Adv. Ms. Ameyavikrama Thanvi, Adv. Mr. Raghav Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Karan Lahiri, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Ambhoj Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. V. K. Verma, AOR Ms. Ankita Sharma, AOR Mr. Arjun D Singh, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Standing Counsel, Adv. Mr. Ravinder Kumar Yadav, AOR Mr. K. Parameshwar, A.A.G. Mr. Rajeev Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Ashiwan Mishra, Adv. Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, AOR Mr. Ramendra Mohan Patnaik, AOR

Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Sunil Roy, AOR Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. Rutwik Panda, AOR Ms. Nikhar Berry, Adv. Ms. Anshu Malik, Adv. Ms. Sheenu Chauhan, Adv. Mr. S.P.singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Malhotra, AOR Mr. Gaurav Jain, Adv. Ms. Abha Jain, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Uddyam Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Swapnil Pattanayak, Adv. Mr. Agnibha Chatterjee, Adv. Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR Mr. Ameet Siingh, Adv. Mr. Praveen Swarup, Adv. Ms. Pareena Swarup, Adv. Mr. Ravi Kumar, Adv. Ms. Payal Swarup, Adv. Mr. Dhirendra Pratap Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Ajay Singh, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. Gp. Capt. Karan Singh Bhati, AOR Mr. Hemendra Sharma, Adv. Ms. Chitrangda Rastravara, Adv. Mr. Abhijeet Singh, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Singh, Adv. Mr. Aishwary Mishra, Adv. Mr. Dhananjai Shekhwat, Adv. Mr. Shiv Autar Singh Sengar, Adv. Mr. Dashrath Singh, Adv. Mr. Yogeshwar Krishna, Adv.

Ms. Anjali Saxena, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR Mr. Ameet Siingh, Adv. Mr. Praveen Swarup, Adv. Ms. Pareena Swarup, Adv. Mr. Ravi Kumar, Adv. Ms. Payal Swarup, Adv. Mr. Dhirendra Pratap Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Ajay Singh, Adv. Mr. Akshat Shrivastava, AOR Mr. Manish Kumar Saran, AOR Ms. Ananya Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Sidhant Sharma, Adv. Mr. R Venkataramani, Attorney General for India Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. K Parameshwar, Adv. Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Ms. Rukhmini Bobde, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Mr. Kartikay Aggarwal, Adv. Ms. Ameyavikrama Thanvi, Adv. Mr. Raghav Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Karan Lahiri, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. R Venkataramani, Attorney General for India Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. K Parameshwar, Adv. Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Ms. Rukhmini Bobde, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Mr. Kartikay Aggarwal, Adv. Ms. Ameyavikrama Thanvi, Adv.

Mr. Raghav Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Karan Lahiri, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv.

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

It may not be possible to segregate the cases assigned to this Bench. Hence, we direct all the cases shall be listed for directions before the appropriate Bench on 22nd July, 2025.

(KAVITA PAHUJA) (AVGV RAMU) ASTT. REGISTRAR-cum-PS COURT MASTER (NSH)