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T.C.(C) No. 60/2021 (XVI-A)

Date : 08-12-2022 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.M. JOSEPH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY RASTOGI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIRUDDHA BOSE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HRISHIKESH ROY HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C.T. RAVIKUMAR For the Parties Mr. S. Nagamuthu, Sr. Adv. Mr. C. Paramasivam, Adv. Mr. Y. Arunagiri, Adv. Mr. M. P. Paramasivam, Adv. Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, Adv. Mr. A. S. Vairawan Shiva, Adv. Mr. R. Sudhakaran, Adv. Mr. G. R. Vikash, Adv. Ms. Shalini Mishra, Adv. Mr. D. Subrahmanya Bhanu, Adv. Mr. P. R. Kovilan Poongkuntran, Adv. Ms. Geetha Kovilan, Adv. Ms. Jubli Momalia, Adv. Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sumit Attri, Adv. Mr. Ritu Anand Vishwakarma, Adv. Ms. Esha Dutta, Adv. Mr. Vivek Kumar, Adv. M/s. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, AOR Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, Sr. Adv. Mr. D. Kumanan, AOR Mr. Sheikh F. Kalia, Adv. Ms. Anusha Nagarajan Iyer, Adv. Ms. Rupali Samul, Adv. Ms. Rishabh Devan Parikh, Adv. Mr. Subodh S. Patil, AOR Mr. Ajay Singh, Adv. Mr. Lokesh Kumar Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Ram Kumar, Adv. Ms. Supriya Deshpande, Adv. Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr.Adv. Ms. Supriya Juneja, AOR Mr. Krishnan Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Deepanshi Ishar, Adv.

Ms. Pallavi Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv. Ms. Pritha Srikumar, AOR Mr. Asif Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Akshat Kumar, Adv. Ms. Mansvini Jain, Adv. Mr. Abhyudaya Shishodia, Adv. Mr. Karanvir Gogia, Adv. Mr. Kushagra Raghuvanshi, Adv. Mr. Ayush Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv. Ms. Supriya Juneja, AOR Ms. Aparna Bhat, AOR Ms. Karishma Maria, Adv. M/s. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. K.M.Nataraj, ASG Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, ASG Mr. Balendu Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Devashish Bharuka, Adv. Mr. Shamik Sananwala, Adv. Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, Adv. Mr. Manvendra Singh Rathore, Adv. Mr. Ameyavikrama Thanvi, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv. Ms. Samiksha Anjanwala,Adv. Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Manish Sharma, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Sharma, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr.Adv. Mr. D.K. Devesh, AOR Mr. Arpit Parkash Adv Mr. Vikalp Sharma, Adv Mr. Sachin Patil, AOR

Mr. Geo Joseph, Adv. Mr. Risvi Muhammed, Adv.

Mr. Durgesh Gupta, Adv.

Ms. Pritha Srikumar, AOR Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr.Adv. Mr. Sudipto Sarkar, Adv. Ms. Ria Singh Sawhney, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Chaudhary, Adv. Ms. Arunima Kedia, Adv. Ms. Anne Mathew, AOR Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Y. Lokesh, Adv. Mr. V. Sibi Kargil, Adv. Mr. V. Kandha Prabhu, Adv. Mr. L. R. Venkatesan, Adv. Ms. Maitri Goal, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Chowdhary, Adv. Mr. Hemant Kumar Niranjan, Adv. Mr. Sachin Kumar Verma, Adv/. Ms. Yakeen Bishoyi, Adv. Mr. Anand Grover, Sr. Adv. Mr. Satyam Thareja, AOR Ms. Varnika Singh, Adv. Ms. Deeksha Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Prateek Kundu, Adv. Mr. Rohin Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Ms. Manisha T. Karia, AOR Mr. Adarsh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aditya Kesar, Adv, Ms. Nidhi Nagpal, Adv. Mr. Vikram Chandravanshi, Adv. Dr. R. R. Deshpande, AOR Mr. N. R. Elango, Sr.Adv. Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, AOR Ms. Shakun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv. Ms. Saushriya Havelia, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv. Mr. Anand Dilip Landge, AOR Mr. V. K. Khanna, Sr. Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S. K. Rajora, Adv.

Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Ms. Niharika Dewivedi, Adv. Ms. Shweta Sand, Adv. Mr. Narendra Pal Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anubhav Gupta, Adv. Mr. C. M. Jha, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra-I, AOR Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra, AOR Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. Mayil Samy K., Adv. Mr. G. Anandaselvam, Adv. Dr. Ram Sankar, Adv. Dr. Gayathiri A.S., Adv. Mr. S. J. Amith, Adv. Mr. Sanchit Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. P. Soma Sundaram, AOR Mr. K. Kumaran, Adv. Mr. K. Muthu Ganesa Pandian, Adv. Mr. Kabilan Manoharan, Adv. Mr. K.Vijay Anand, Adv. Mr. V. Pavel, Adv. Mr. A. Santhakumaran, Adv. Mr. Ankur S. Kulkarni, AOR Ms. Puspita Basak, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Bijan Kumar Ghosh, AOR Mr. Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure, AOR Mr. Gopal Balwant Sathe, Adv. Mr. Yash Prashant Sonavane, Adv. Ms. Sakshi Ajit Kale, Adv. Mr. Rohan Darade, Adv Mr. Nikhil Goel, AAG Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Adithya Roy, Adv. Mr. Manendra Pal Gupta, Adv. Mr. Md. Apzal Ansari, Adv. Mr. C. Ravichandran Iyer, Adv. Mr. Reegan S. Bel, Adv. Mr. C. M. Sundaram Iyer, Adv. Mr. Keerthi Priyan, Adv. Mr. N. Rajaraman, AOR Mr. Vishnu Sharma, AOR

Applicant-in-person Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, AOR Ms. Mahalakshmi Pavani, Sr.Adv. Mr. Tomy Chacko, Adv. Mr. Neeleswar Pavani, Adv. Ms. Shaurya Mishra, Adv. Mr. Vibhuti Sushant Gupta, Adv. Mr. Narender Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. M. Y. Deshmukh, AOR Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr.Adv. Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr.Adv. Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, Sr.Adv. Mr. D. Kumanan, AOR Mr. M. Thanga Durai, Adv. Mr. Sheikh F. Kalia, Adv. Ms. Racheeta Chwla, Adv. Mr. Eklavya Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Ms. Monika Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Racheeta Chawla, Adv. Ms. Divya Singh, Adv. Mr. Kushal Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Vinodh Kanna B., AOR Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mrs. Naresh Bakshi, AOR Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR Mr. Mayank Dahiya, Adv. Ms. Priyanka C., Adv. Mr. Kupdeep Singh Kuchaliya, Adv. Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Mr. Abdulla Naseeh V.T., Adv. Ms. Meena K. Poulose, Adv. Mr. Komal Mehta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kabir Hathi, Adv. Ms. Jesal Wahi, AOR Mr. Anand Sanjay M. Nuli, Adv. Mr. Dharm Singh, Adv. Mr. Suraj Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Nanda Kumar K. B., Adv. Mr. Shiva Swaroop, Adv.

M/S. Nuli & Nuli, AOR Mr. Ranjeth Marar, Adv. Mr. Prabhurama Subramanian, Adv. Mr. Raghunatha Sethupathy B , AOR Mr. Karuppaiah Meyyappan, Adv. Ms. Kanika K., Adv. Ms. Pariksha, Adv. Mr. Bharathi Mohan, Adv. Ms. Priya, Adv. Mr. S. Sabari Bala Pandian, Adv. Mr. Jayanth Muth Raj, Sr.Adv. Mrs. Malavika Jayanth, AOR Ms. Miranda Solaman, Adv. Mr. Nagamuthu, Sr. Adv. Mr. Prabhu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Mr. Raghunatha Sethupathy B., Adv. Mr. Bharathi Mohan, Adv. Mr. Sudhakaran, Adv. Mr. S. Sabari Bala Pandian, Adv. Mr. T. Harish Kumar, AOR Mr. Goutham Shivshankar, AOR Mr. P. Rajalakshmi, Adv. Ms. Ruchira Goel, Adv. Mr. Adit Jayeshbhai Shah, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chaurasia, Adv. Mr. Ganga Sagar Singh, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Chaurasiya, Adv.

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

Heard.

Judgment reserved.

Parties are free to submit their collective compendium of arguments within a period of one week from today.

(NIDHI AHUJA) (MATHEW ABRAHAM) AR-cum-PS COURT MASTER (NSH)

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UNION OF INDIA & ANR. Respondent(s) [ TO GO BEFORE FIVE HON'BLE JUDGES ] WITH W.P.(C) No. 6/2018 (PIL-W) (FOR ADMISSION) W.P.(C) No. 10/2018 (PIL-W) SLP(C) No. 3528/2018 (IX) W.P.(C) No. 1193/2017 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 1152/2018 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 24/2016 (PIL-W) No. 5/2016 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON) W.P.(C) No. 25/2016 (PIL-W) (With IA No. 1/2016 - GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF) W.P.(C) No. 26/2016 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 27/2016 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 88/2016 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 1011/2017 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 1059/2017 (PIL-W) (With IA No. 112823/2017 - STAY APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No. 1188/2017 (PIL-W)

VERSUS

Writ Petition (Civil) No. 23/2016

(With IA No. 15/2016 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION and IA No. 11/2016 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION and IA No. 7/2016 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION and IA No. 67113/2017 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT and IA

T.C.(C) No. 60/2021 (XVI-A)

ITEM NO.501 COURT NO.4 SECTION X

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A

THE ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD OF INDIA & ORS. Petitioner(s)

RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Date : 08-12-2022 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.M. JOSEPH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY RASTOGI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIRUDDHA BOSE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HRISHIKESH ROY HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C.T. RAVIKUMAR

For the Parties

Mr. S. Nagamuthu, Sr. Adv. Mr. C. Paramasivam, Adv. Mr. Y. Arunagiri, Adv. Mr. M. P. Paramasivam, Adv. Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, Adv. Mr. A. S. Vairawan Shiva, Adv. Mr. R. Sudhakaran, Adv. Mr. G. R. Vikash, Adv. Ms. Shalini Mishra, Adv. Mr. D. Subrahmanya Bhanu, Adv. Mr. P. R. Kovilan Poongkuntran, Adv. Ms. Geetha Kovilan, Adv. Ms. Jubli Momalia, Adv. Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sumit Attri, Adv. Mr. Ritu Anand Vishwakarma, Adv. Ms. Esha Dutta, Adv. Mr. Vivek Kumar, Adv. M/s. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, AOR Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, Sr. Adv. Mr. D. Kumanan, AOR Mr. Sheikh F. Kalia, Adv. Ms. Anusha Nagarajan Iyer, Adv. Ms. Rupali Samul, Adv. Ms. Rishabh Devan Parikh, Adv. Mr. Subodh S. Patil, AOR Mr. Ajay Singh, Adv. Mr. Lokesh Kumar Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Ram Kumar, Adv. Ms. Supriya Deshpande, Adv. Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr.Adv. Ms. Supriya Juneja, AOR Mr. Krishnan Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Deepanshi Ishar, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Srivastava, Adv.

Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv. Ms. Pritha Srikumar, AOR Mr. Asif Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Akshat Kumar, Adv. Ms. Mansvini Jain, Adv. Mr. Abhyudaya Shishodia, Adv. Mr. Karanvir Gogia, Adv. Mr. Kushagra Raghuvanshi, Adv. Mr. Ayush Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv. Ms. Supriya Juneja, AOR Ms. Aparna Bhat, AOR Ms. Karishma Maria, Adv. M/s. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. K.M.Nataraj, ASG Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, ASG Mr. Balendu Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Devashish Bharuka, Adv. Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv. Ms. Samiksha Anjanwala,Adv. Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Manish Sharma, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Sharma, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr.Adv. Mr. D.K. Devesh, AOR Mr. Arpit Parkash Adv Mr. Vikalp Sharma, Adv Mr. Sachin Patil, AOR Mr. Geo Joseph, Adv. Mr. Risvi Muhammed, Adv. Mr. Durgesh Gupta, Adv. Ms. Pritha Srikumar, AOR Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr.Adv. Mr. Sudipto Sarkar, Adv.

Ms. Ria Singh Sawhney, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Chaudhary, Adv. Ms. Arunima Kedia, Adv. Ms. Anne Mathew, AOR Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Y. Lokesh, Adv. Mr. V. Sibi Kargil, Adv. Mr. V. Kandha Prabhu, Adv. Mr. L. R. Venkatesan, Adv. Ms. Maitri Goal, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Chowdhary, Adv. Mr. Hemant Kumar Niranjan, Adv. Mr. Sachin Kumar Verma, Adv/. Ms. Yakeen Bishoyi, Adv. Mr. Anand Grover, Sr. Adv. Mr. Satyam Thareja, AOR Ms. Varnika Singh, Adv. Ms. Deeksha Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Prateek Kundu, Adv. Mr. Rohin Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Ms. Manisha T. Karia, AOR Mr. Adarsh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aditya Kesar, Adv, Ms. Nidhi Nagpal, Adv. Mr. Vikram Chandravanshi, Adv. Dr. R. R. Deshpande, AOR Mr. N. R. Elango, Sr.Adv. Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, AOR Ms. Shakun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv. Ms. Saushriya Havelia, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv. Mr. Anand Dilip Landge, AOR Mr. V. K. Khanna, Sr. Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S. K. Rajora, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Ms. Niharika Dewivedi, Adv. Ms. Shweta Sand, Adv. Mr. Narendra Pal Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Anubhav Gupta, Adv. Mr. C. M. Jha, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra-I, AOR Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra, AOR Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. Mayil Samy K., Adv. Mr. G. Anandaselvam, Adv. Dr. Ram Sankar, Adv. Dr. Gayathiri A.S., Adv. Mr. S. J. Amith, Adv. Mr. Sanchit Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. P. Soma Sundaram, AOR Mr. K. Kumaran, Adv. Mr. K. Muthu Ganesa Pandian, Adv. Mr. Kabilan Manoharan, Adv. Mr. K.Vijay Anand, Adv. Mr. V. Pavel, Adv. Mr. A. Santhakumaran, Adv. Mr. Ankur S. Kulkarni, AOR Ms. Puspita Basak, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Bijan Kumar Ghosh, AOR Mr. Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure, AOR Mr. Gopal Balwant Sathe, Adv. Mr. Yash Prashant Sonavane, Adv. Ms. Sakshi Ajit Kale, Adv. Mr. Rohan Darade, Adv Mr. Nikhil Goel, AAG Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Adithya Roy, Adv. Mr. Manendra Pal Gupta, Adv. Mr. Md. Apzal Ansari, Adv. Mr. C. Ravichandran Iyer, Adv. Mr. Reegan S. Bel, Adv. Mr. C. M. Sundaram Iyer, Adv. Mr. Keerthi Priyan, Adv. Mr. N. Rajaraman, AOR Mr. Vishnu Sharma, AOR Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR Applicant-in-person

Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, AOR Ms. Mahalakshmi Pavani, Sr.Adv. Mr. Tomy Chacko, Adv. Mr. Neeleswar Pavani, Adv. Ms. Shaurya Mishra, Adv. Mr. Vibhuti Sushant Gupta, Adv. Mr. Narender Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. M. Y. Deshmukh, AOR Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr.Adv. Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr.Adv. Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, Sr.Adv. Mr. D. Kumanan, AOR Mr. M. Thanga Durai, Adv. Mr. Sheikh F. Kalia, Adv. Ms. Racheeta Chwla, Adv. Mr. Eklavya Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Ms. Monika Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Racheeta Chawla, Adv. Ms. Divya Singh, Adv. Mr. Kushal Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Vinodh Kanna B., AOR Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mrs. Naresh Bakshi, AOR Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR Mr. Mayank Dahiya, Adv. Ms. Priyanka C., Adv. Mr. Kupdeep Singh Kuchaliya, Adv. Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Mr. Abdulla Naseeh V.T., Adv. Ms. Meena K. Poulose, Adv. Ms. Jesal Wahi, AOR Mr. Anand Sanjay M. Nuli, Adv. Mr. Dharm Singh, Adv. Mr. Suraj Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Nanda Kumar K. B., Adv. Mr. Shiva Swaroop, Adv. M/S. Nuli & Nuli, AOR Mr. Ranjeth Marar, Adv. Mr. Prabhurama Subramanian, Adv.

Mr. Raghunatha Sethupathy B , AOR Mr. Karuppaiah Meyyappan, Adv. Ms. Kanika K., Adv. Ms. Pariksha, Adv. Mr. Bharathi Mohan, Adv. Ms. Priya, Adv. Mr. S. Sabari Bala Pandian, Adv. Mr. Jayanth Muth Raj, Sr.Adv. Mrs. Malavika Jayanth, AOR Ms. Miranda Solaman, Adv. Mr. Nagamuthu, Sr. Adv. Mr. Prabhu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Mr. Raghunatha Sethupathy B., Adv. Mr. Bharathi Mohan, Adv. Mr. Sudhakaran, Adv. Mr. S. Sabari Bala Pandian, Adv. Mr. T. Harish Kumar, AOR Mr. Goutham Shivshankar, AOR Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chaurasia, Adv. Mr. Ganga Sagar Singh, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Chaurasiya, Adv. UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

Heard.

Judgment reserved.

Parties are free to submit their collective compendium of arguments within a period of one week from today.

(NIDHI AHUJA) (MATHEW ABRAHAM) AR-cum-PS COURT MASTER (NSH)