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SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

SMW No.1/2019

IN RE ALARMING RISE IN THE NUMBER OF REPORTED Petitioner(s) CHILD RAPE INCIDENTS

VERSUS

Respondent(s)

(Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Advocate (A.C.), Ms. Uttara Babbar, Adv) 1. A letter dated 20.09.2021 received from Sh. Dharmesh Sharma, Principal District & Session Judge (West) Tis Hazari Courts. 2. Letter received from Sh. Mahesh Singh through Welfare Officer, Central Jail, Tihar.

(IA No. 110278/2021 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION, IA No. 2478/2020 - APPLICATION FOR WAIVER OF ADDITIONAL COSTS, IA No. 110282/2021 -APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 146230/2019 - APPROPRIATE <table><tbody>ORDERS/DIRECTIONS,IANo.115839/2023-APPROPRIATEORDERS/DIRECTIONS,IANo.44301/2021-APPROPRIATE</ ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 52907/2024 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, IA No. 135383/2019 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, IA No. 2771/2021 -132386/2019 CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, IA $\mathbf{N}\mathbf{o}$ . CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, IA No. 59198/2021 - CORRECTION OF MISTAKES, IN THE JUDGMENT, IA No. 52909/2024 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 110553/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 132388/2019 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 110283/2021 -EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 38321/2020 - EXTENSION OF TIME IA No. 143390/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 165036/2021 APPLICATION, IA No. $44299/2021$ -INTERVENTION $\mathcal{L} = \mathcal{L}$ INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA 132359/2019 $\mathbf{No.}$ IA INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, 34316/2020 $\mathtt{No},.$ INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 165377/2021 - MODIFICATION OF COURT ORDER, IA No. 135378/2019 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON & IA No. 22143/2022 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES)

Date: 24-09-2024 This matter was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE BELA M. TRIVEDI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA

Petitioner(s)

By Courts Motion

Mr. Sonawar Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Kshitij Singh, Adv. For Respondent(s) Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR M/s. PLR Chambers And Co., AOR Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR Mr. Akshai Malik, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Jain, AOR Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR Mr. Pranjal Sharma, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Shekhar, AOR Mr. Parth Shekhar, Adv. Ms. Rashi Bansal, AOR Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, AOR Mr. Samyak Jain, Adv. Mr. H.S. Phoolka, Sr. Adv. Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR Mr. Ravi Bakshi, Adv. Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, AOR Ms. Shrutee Aradhana, Adv. Mr. P. I. Jose, AOR Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Ms. Diksha Rai, AOR Mr. Arijit Dey, Adv. Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Ms. Sagun Srivastava, Adv. Ms. G. Indira, AOR

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Mr. P Gandepan, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Shanker Dvivedi, Standing Counsel Ms. Tulika Mukherjee, AOR Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Shreyas Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Uday B. Dube, AOR M/s. Parekh & Co., AOR Ms. Radhika Gautam, AOR Mr. Renjith B. Marar, Adv. Ms. Lakshmi N. Kaimal, AOR Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv. Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Mr. T.k. Nayak, Adv. Ms. Ruchira Goel, AOR Ms. Harshita Nigam, Adv. Ms. Nupur Kumar, AOR Ms. Niharika Tanwar, Adv. Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR Ms. Mukti Chowdhary, AOR Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR Mr. Sujay Jain, Adv. Mr. Krishna Dev Jagarlamudi, AOR Ms. Sindoora, AOR Ms. Thithiksha Padmam, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv. Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, AOR Mr. Atul Kumar, AOR Ms. Sweety Singh, Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR

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Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv. Mr. Ahanthem Nirmala Devi, Adv. Mr. Kumar Mihir, AOR Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Rahul Kaushik, AOR Mr. Prashant Shrikant Kenjale, AOR Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv. Ms. Jaspreet Gogia, AOR Mr. Apoorv Kurup, AOR Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR Mr. Kanhaiya Singhal, AOR Ms. Chandni Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., AOR Mr. R. P. Gupta, AOR Mr. Vinod Sharma, AOR Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Rajpal, Adv. Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, AOR Ms. Anubha Dhulia, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR Intervenor-in-person Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Vishwanath P. Alllannavar, Adv. Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Abbas B, Adv. Mr. Gautam Narayan, AOR Ms. Asmita Singh, Adv. Mr. Pritam Biswas, Adv. Mr. Prem Sunder Jha, AOR Mr. Ankit Goel, AOR

Mr. Vinay Arora, AOR Mr. Dilip Annasaheb Taur, AOR Mr. Rajiv Kumar Choudhry, AOR Mr. Kartik Seth, Adv. For M/s. Chambers Of Kartik Seth, AOR Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR Mrs. Shashi Pathak, Adv. Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR Mr. Dhananjay Kataria, Adv. Mr. Niranjan Sahu, AOR Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Subhasish Mohanty, AOR M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Ms. Samyuktha H Nair, Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Ms. Enakshi Mukhopadhyay Siddhanta, AOR Mr. Govindarajan J., Adv. Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Ms. Ayushi Bansal, Adv. Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Amit Sharma, A.A.G. Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Mr. Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Ms. Vishakha, AOR Ms. Viddusshi, Adv.

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

1. Let an application seeking modification of this Court's order dated 1-8-2019 filed by the Union of India be served to the concerned Advocates appearing for the parties.

2. Mr. V. Giri, learned Amicus submits that Ms. Uttara Babbar was an Advocate-on-Record earlier appointed to assist him in the case, has now been designated as Senior Advocate. He requests that she may be allowed to assist him in the matter.

3. In view of the request made, Ms. Babbar is allowed to assist learned Amicus**.**

4. As prayed for by learned Amicus, he is also permitted to take the assistance of Mr. Krishnadev Jagaralamudi, learned Advocate-on-Record.

5. Learned Amicus is requested to submit a brief note of submissions with regard to the entire chain of events.

6. List after four weeks.

(VISHAL ANAND) (MAMTA RAWAT) ASTT. REGISTRAR-cum-PS COURT MASTER (NSH)

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