Union Of India Ministery Of Human Resource Development Through Secretary vs. Songologist Association Of Punjab And Ors Through Its President Dr G S Gill Mbbs Ms

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.349 OF 2006

VOLUNTARY HEALTH ASS. OF PUNJAB Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)

(With appln(s) for directions, exemption from filing O.T. of annexures and office report)

With Writ Petition (C) No.498 of 2007 (With appln.(s) for placing affidavit on record)

Date: 12/11/2010 These Matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.S. PANICKER RADHAKRISHNAN HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SWATANTER KUMAR

For Petitioner(s)		Mr. Colin Gonsalves,Sr.Adv.
In WP 349/2006:		Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta,Adv.
		Mr. Divya Jyoti,Adv.

In WP 498/2007: Mr. Bhupender Yadav,Adv. Mr. S.S. Shamshery,Adv. Mr. R.C. Kohli,Adv.

For Respondent(s) Mr. Arun K. Sinha,Adv.

Mr. Avijit Bhattacharjee,Adv. Ms. Sarbani Kar,Adv. Ms. Debjani Das Purkayastha,Adv. Ms. Ananya Kar,Adv.

Ms. Hemantika Wahi,Adv. Ms. Nupur Kanungo,Adv.

Ms. Kamini Jaiswal,Adv.

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• Mr. Gopal Subramaniam,SG.

• Ms. Indra Jaising,ASG. Mr. P.P. Malhotra,ASG.

• Mr. Ashok Bhan,Adv.

• Ms. Sadhana Sandhu,Adv.

• Mr. S.S. Rawat,Adv.

• Ms. Vimla Sinha,Adv.

• Mr. Shailendra Sharma,Adv.

• Mr. C.K. Sharma,Adv.

• Ms. Asha G. Nair,Adv.

• Ms. Anil Katiyar,Adv.

• Ms. Sushma Suri,Adv.

• Mr. D.S. Mahra,Adv.

• Mr. V.G. Pragasam,Adv.

Mr. S.J. Aristotle,Adv. Mr. Prabu Ramasubramaniam,Adv. Mr. L.A.J. Selvam,Adv. Mr. Naveen Sharma,Adv. Mr. B.S. Banthia,Adv. Mr. H.P. Raval,ASG. Ms. Padmalakshmi Nigam,Adv. Mr. S.B. Upadhyay,Sr.Adv. Mr. Aditya Sharma,Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma,Adv. Mr. Khwairakpam Nobin Singh,Adv. Mr. Sapam Biswajit,Adv. Mr. Anil Shrivastav,Adv. Mr. Ritu Raj Biswas,Adv. Mr. Riku Sarma,Adv. Mr. Navneet Kumar,Adv. Mr. Keshav Ray Chaudhuri,Adv. for M/s. Corporate Law Group,Advs. Mr. Rajesh Srivastava,Adv. Mr. Pragyan P. Sharma,Adv. Mr. P.V. Yogeswaran,Adv. Mr. P.V. Dinesh,Adv. Mr. Shibashish Misra,Adv. Mr. T. Harish Kumar,Adv. Mr. P. Prasanth,Adv. Mr. V. Vasudevan,Adv. ....3/- - 3 - Mr. T.V. George,Adv. Dr. Manish Singhvi,AAG,Rajasthan Mr. D.K. Devesh,Adv. Mr. Sahil S. Chauhan,Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar,Adv. Mr. Atul Jha,Adv. Mr. D.K. Sinha,Adv. Mr. D. Mahesh Babu,Adv. Mr. Ramesh Allanki,Adv. Mr. Gopal Singh,Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar,Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kharde,Adv. Mr. Shankar Chillrge,Adv. Ms. Asha G. Nair,Adv. Mr. A. Mariarputham,Adv.Genl.,Sikkim. Ms. Aruna Mathur,Adv. Mr. Amarjeet Singh Girsa,Adv. Mr. Yusuf Khan,Adv. Mr. Edward Belho,Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema,Adv. Ms. A. Subhashini,Adv.

For Director, Health Mr. Bhavanishankar V. Gadnis,Adv. Services, State of Goa Ms. B. Sunita Rao,Adv. Ms. Renuka Singh,Adv. Mr. Raj Bhushan,Adv. Mr. Manjit Singh,AAG,Haryana Mr. Kamal Mohan Gupta,Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Singh,Adv. Ms. Mukti Singh,Adv. Mr. P.N. Gupta,Adv. Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee,Adv. Mr. S. Bhowmick,adv. Mr. S.C. Ghosh,Adv. ...4/- - 4 -

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

We are of the view that this matter cannot be treated as adversarial in nature. We are confident that, with the able assistance of the learned Additional Solicitor General, many of the points involved in these writ petitions could be resolved. We recommend that a meeting be arranged between the Government and the petitioners so that the issues involved in these writ petitions would stand resolved amicably.

The writ petition shall stand over for eight weeks.

[ T.I. Rajput ] [ Madhu Saxena ] A.R.-cum-P.S. Assistant Registrar