Union Of India Ministry Of Finance Secretary vs. K. N. Vijayakumar And Ors Etc. Etc

ITEM NO.501

COURT NO.3

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SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

<pre>Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s). 906/2016</pre>

VIVEK NARAYAN SHARMA

Petitioner(s)

Respondent(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA

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MA 1552/2018 in W.P.(C) No. 626/2017 (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.45727/2018-APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS ALONGWITH THE PAPER BOOKS OF W.P.(C)NO.124/2017] IA No. 45727/2018 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS) W.P.(C) No. 971/2016 T.P.(C) No. 2018-2022/2016 (IA No. 1/2016 - EX-PARTE STAY) W.P.(C) No. 972/2016 W.P.(C) No. 389/2018 Date : 07-12-2022 These matters were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. ABDUL NAZEER HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B.R. GAVAI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.S. BOPANNA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE B.V. NAGARATHNA For Petitioner(s) Mr. P.Chidambaram,Sr.Adv. Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, AOR Mr. Talha A.Rahman,Adv. Mr. Prateek Chadha,Adv. Mr. Vrishank Singhania,Adv. Ms. Rani Mishra,Adv. Mr. Gaurav Ghosh,Adv. Mr. Harsh Vardhan Kediya,Adv. Mr. M.Shaz Khan,Adv. Ms. Radhika,Adv. Mr. Shyam Divan,Sr.Adv. Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, AOR Mr. Jatin Bhardwaj,Adv. Ms. Sanam Tripathi,Adv. Ms. Anshula Laroiya,Adv. Mr. Adith Deshmukh,Adv. Ms. Ria Singh Sawhney,Adv. Ms. Neha Rathi,Adv. Mr. Surendra Kumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. M. T. George, AOR Mrs. Susy Abrahm, Adv. Mr. Johns George, Adv Mr. Viplav Sharma, Petitioner-in-person

Ms. Priyadarshini Dewan,Adv. Ms. Shankari Mishra,Adv. Ms. Swechcha Mishra,Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Verma,Adv. Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR Mr. Abhishek Pandey,Adv. Ms. Abhivyakti Banerjee,Adv. Ms. Sakshi Garg,Adv. Mr. Anant Bhushan,Adv. Ms. Shailja Sinha Saraswat,Adv. Mr. Arjav Jain,Adv. Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, AOR Mr. R. Venkataramani, AG Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. N. Venkataraman, ASG Mr. K.M.Nataraj,ASG Ms. Vijayalakshmi Venkataramani, Adv. Mr. Anandh Venkataramani, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Mehrotra, Adv. Mr. M.K.Maroria, AOR Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Ms. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Devashish Bharuka,Adv. Mr. Pratyush Shrivastava,Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sharma,Adv. Mr. Parantap Singh,Adv. Mr. Rohit Khare,Adv. Mr. Gaurang Bhushan,Adv. Mr. Abhijeet Singh,Adv. Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Shradha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Adit Khorana, Adv. Mr. Udai Khanna, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Mr. Praveen Vignesh, Adv. Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv. Ms. Mansi Sood, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav,Adv. Mr. Akshay Amritanshu,Adv. Mr. Sandeep K.Mahapatra,Adv. Mr. Madhav Singhal,Adv. Mr. Mayank Pandey,Adv. Mr. Nakul Changappa K.K.,Adv. Ms. Akriti A.Manubarwala,Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR

Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. H. S. Parihar, AOR Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv. Ms. Ikshita Parihar, Adv. Mr. Riddhi Bose,Adv. Ms. Manicka Priya S.,Adv. Ms. Aastha Mehta, Adv. Ms. Vishakha, Adv. Mr. Ananvay Anandvardhan, Adv. Ms. Poorna Chanra R., Adv. Ms. Sivani K., Adv. Ms. Prerana Mohapatra, Adv. Mr. Atul Kumar, AOR Mr. Vivek Narayan Sharma, AOR Mr. Ajay Singh,Adv. Ms. Mahima Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Laksha Bhavnani, Adv. Mr. Pranshu Kaushal, Adv. Mr. Ram Kumar, Adv. Mr. Adhiraj Wadhera, Adv. Mr. Sudhanshu Khandelwal, Adv. Ms. Priyambica MK Jha,Adv. Mr. Manohar Lal Sharma, in-person Ms. Suman,Adv. Mr. Thampan Thomas,Adv. Mr. K. V. Mohan, AOR Ms. Tessy Varghese,Adv. Mr. K.V.Balakrishnan,Adv. Mr. K.Vinosh,Adv. Mr. Saju Jacob,Adv. Ms. Satwinder Kaur,Adv. Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Ms. Sagun Srivastava,Adv. Mr. Mareesh Pravir Sahay,Adv. Ms. Awantika,Adv. Mr. Sachin Kharb,Adv. Mr. Braj Kishore Mishra, AOR Mr. G. Ananda Selvam, Adv. Mr. Mayil Samy K., Adv. Mr. S.J. Amith, Adv. Dr. A.S.Gayathiri,Adv. Mr. Sanchit Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. T. R. B. Sivakumar, AOR Mr. A. Santhakumaran, Adv. Mr. K. Kumaran, Adv.

Mr. C.R.Jaya Sukin,Adv. Ms. Anjali Gupta, Adv. Mr. C.M. Jha, Adv. Mr. Anubhav Gupta, Adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar Sharma,Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha,Adv. Mr. Ravish Kumar Goel,Adv. Mr. Nitin Sharma,Adv. Mr. Chaman Sharma, Adv. Mr. Gautam Das,Adv. Mr. Narender Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. C.R.Jaya Sukin,Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha,Adv. Mr. Sitesh Kumar Singh,Adv. Mr. Anubhav Gupta,Adv. Mr. Nitin Sharma,Adv. Mr. Varun Punia, AOR Mr. C.R.Jaya Sukin,Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha,Adv. Mr. Kamal Kant Jha,Adv. Mr. Chandan Mishra,Adv. Mr. Gautam Das,Adv.. Mr. C.M.Jha,Adv. Mr. Vijay K. Jain, AOR Ms. Manjula Gupta, AOR Mr. Prem Sunder Jha, Adv. Mr. Pranav Raina, Adv. Mr. Manashwy Jha, Adv. Ms. Riya Kumari,Adv. Mr. V. K. Biju, AOR Ms. Ria Sachthey,Adv. Mr. Chetanya Singh,Adv. Dr. Ranjeet Bharti,Adv. Ms. Rubina Jawed,Adv. Mr. C.R.Jaya Sukin,Adv. Ms. Jyoti Zongluju,Adv. Mr. Sudhir Singh,Adv. Mr. Sarbendra Kumar,Adv. Ms. Divya Mishra,Adv. Ms. Saloni Sharan,Adv. Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR

Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, AOR

Mr. Arjun Singh Bhati,Adv. Ms. Tasmiya Taleha,Adv. Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Mr. Assad Alvi, Adv. Mr. D. Vidyanandam, Adv. Ms. Saba A.K. Patel, Adv. Ms. Sadia Rohman Khan, Adv. Ms. Komal Vashistha,Adv. Mr. Yogesh Sharma,Adv. Mr. Abhishek Gaur,Adv. Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Mr. Amit Kheemka,Adv. Mr. Manish Sharma,Adv. Mr. Neeraj Sharma,Adv. Mr. Sanchit Vashishiste,Adv. Mr. Rishi Sehgal, AOR Mr. Sandeep Dash,Adv. Mr. Dhaval Deshpande,Adv. Ms. Aparna Jha, AOR Mr. Ankur Prakash, AOR Mr. Jatinder Pal Singh, AOR Ms. Reema Chauhan,Adv. Mr. Shariq Ahmed, Adv. Mr. D.K. Thakur, Adv. Mr. Tariq Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Suryanarayana Singh,Sr.Adv. Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR Mr. Ajit Sharma, AOR Mr. Ajay Vikram Singh, AOR Ms. Priyanka Singh,Adv. Ms. Pranjali Goel,Adv. Mr. Sharjeet Ahamad,Adv. Mr. Shubham Singh, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Ranjan,Adv. Mr. Joel, AOR Mr. Attin Shankar Rastogi,Adv. Mr. Shivkant Arora,Adv.

Mr. Ashwani Kumar Dubey, AOR

Mr. Deepak Nargolkar,Sr.Adv. Mr. Syed Ahmed Saud,Adv. Mr. Daanish Ahmed Syed,Adv. Mr. Mohd.Parvez Dabas,Adv. Mr. Uzmi Jameel Husain,Adv. Mr. Aqib Baig,Adv. Mr. Mohd.Shahib,Adv. Mr. Mujeebuddin Khan,Adv. For M/S. Shakil Ahmad Syed, AOR Mr. P. V. Dinesh, AOR Mr. Rahul Raj Mishra,Adv. Mr. Ashwini Kumar Singh,Adv. Mr. Bineesh K.,Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Shukla,Adv. Ms. Reetu Sharma, AOR Mr. Nihal Ahmed,Adv. Mr. Vasu Chaudhary,Adv. Mr. Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure, AOR Mr. Gopal Balwant Sathe,Adv. Mr. Yash Prashant Sonavane,Adv. Mr. Sakshi Ajit Kale,Adv. Mr. Rohan Darade,Adv. For Respondent(s) Mr. R. Venkataramani, AG Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. N. Venkataraman, ASG Mr. K.M.Nataraj,ASG Ms. Vijayalakshmi Venkataramani, Adv. Mr. Anandh Venkataramani, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Mehrotra, Adv. Mr. M.K.Maroria, AOR Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Ms. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Devashish Bharuka,Adv. Mr. Pratyush Shrivastava,Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sharma,Adv. Mr. Parantap Singh,Adv. Mr. Rohit Khare,Adv. Mr. Gaurang Bhushan,Adv. Mr. Abhijeet Singh,Adv. Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Shradha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Adit Khorana, Adv. Mr. Udai Khanna, Adv. Mr. Akshay Amritanshu,Adv.

Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Mr. Praveen Vignesh, Adv. Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv. Ms. Mansi Sood, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav,Adv. Mr. Sandeep K.Mahapatra,Adv. Mr. Madhav Singhal,Adv. Mr. Mayank Pandey,Adv. Mr. Nakul Changappa K.K.,Adv. Ms. Akriti A.Manubarwala,Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. H. S. Parihar, AOR Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv. Ms. Ikshita Parihar, Adv. Mr. Riddhi Bose,Adv. Ms. Manicka Priya S.,Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dutta, Adv. Mr. Kumar Dushyant Singh, AOR Ms. Gunjan Malhotra, Adv. Ms. Subasri Jaganathan, Adv. Mr. P.V.Surendranath,Sr.Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mr. Sawan Kumar Shukla,Adv. Mr. Subhash Chandran K.R.,Adv. Mr. Avishkar Singhvi,Sr.Adv. Mr. Vivek Kumar,Adv. Miss Pratiksha Sharma, AOR Mr. Ankit Acharya,Adv. Mr. Mueed Mueed Shah,Adv. Mr. Dilip Annasaheb Taur, AOR Mrs. Niranjana Singh, AOR Mr. Purvish Jitendra Malkan, AOR Ms. Dharita Purvish Malkan, Adv. Mr. Alok Kumar, Adv. Mr. Yashasvi Virendra, Adv. Mr. Narayan Laxman Rao, Adv. Ms. Deepa Gorasia, Adv. Ms. Nandini Chhabra, Adv. Ms. Bhavna Sarkar, Adv.

Mr. Shariq Ahmed, Adv. Mr. D.K. Thakur, Adv. Mr. Tariq Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, AOR Mr. Ashutosh Thakur,Adv. Dr. Sumit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Pandey,Adv. Mr. Keshav Baheti, Adv. Ms. Mrigna Shekhar, Adv. Ms. Aarushi singh, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., AOR Ms. Manisha Singh,Adv. Ms. Tanya Chowdhary,Adv. Mr. Rohit K. Singh, AOR Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Respondent-in-person Mr. M. P. Vinod, AOR Mr. Atul Shankar Vinod, Adv. Mr. Dileep Pillai, Adv. Mr. Ajay Kumar Jain, Adv. Mr. Shreyansh Agrawal, Adv. Mr. P. A. Noor Muhamed, AOR Mr. Satish Kumar, AOR Mr. Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, AOR Mr. Satyajeet A.Desai,Adv. Mr. Sidharth Gautam,Adv. Mr. Abhinav K.Mutyalwar,Adv. Mr. Gajanan N.Tirthakar,Adv. Mr. Satya Kam Sharma,Adv. Ms. Anagha S. Desai, AOR M/S. S.M. Jadhav And Company, AOR Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR Mr. V. K. Sidharthan, AOR

Mr. Harshad V. Hameed, AOR Mr. Dileep Poolakkot, Adv. Ms. Ashly Harshad, Adv. Mr. Romy Chacko, AOR Mr. M. Y. Deshmukh, AOR Ms. Manjeet Kirpal,Adv. Mr. Adweetiya Sharma,Adv. Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Mr. Abdulla Naseeh V.T., Adv. Ms. Meena K. Poulose, Adv. Mr. Nischal Kumar Neeraj, AOR Mr. Ajay Mehrotra,Adv. Ms. Banisha Verma,Adv. Ms. S.Rani,Adv. Mr. M.Qayam Ud Din,Adv. Mr. Shakti N.,Adv. Ms. Drishty Maan,Adv. Mr. Puneet Bhola,Adv. Ms. Pallavi Pratap, AOR Ms. Prachi Pratap,Adv. Mr. Namit Saxena,Adv. Dr. Prashant Pratap,Adv. Mr. Akshay Singh,Adv. Ms. Avadhi Jain,Adv. Mr. Suryanarayana Singh,Sr.Adv. Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR Mr. Rishi Matoliya, AOR Mr. H.D.Thanvi,Adv. Mr. Nikhil Kumar Singh,Adv. Mr. Achal Singh Bule,Adv. Mr. Mahendra Singh Inda,Adv. Mr. Harsh Vardhan,Adv. Mr. Abhinav Shrivastava, AOR Mr. Anurag Gupta,Adv. Mr. Gagan Gupta,Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Tandon,Adv. Mr. Rahul Gupta,Adv. Mr. Shivang Rawat,Adv. Ms. Radhika Jalan,Adv. Mr. Adnan Siddiqui,Adv. Ms. Aparna Satya Narayan,Adv. Mr. Ravi Kishan Chandna,Adv.

Mr. Santosh Mishra, AOR

Mr. Dhruv Gautam,Adv. Ms. Manisha Ambwani, AOR Mr. Anindo Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. S.Ranjan Das,Adv. Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Mr. B.K. Mishra, Sr. Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma,Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora,Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha,Adv. Ms. Niharika Dwivedi, Adv Ms. Shweta Sand, Adv. Ms. Yamini Sharma,Adv. Mr. Anubhav Gupta, Adv. Mr. C.M. Jha, Adv. Mr. Narendra Pal Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Adv. Mr. Satya S. Saini,Adv Ms. Mridula Singh,Adv. Mr. Sanjay Singh,Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar, AOR Mr. Mahfooz A. Nazki, AOR Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv. Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Adv. Mr. T.Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv. Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. K.V.Girish Chowdary, Adv. Ms. Niti Richhariya, Adv. Mr. Naveen Sharma (Bhardwaj), Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya A. Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Ms. Kirti Dadheech, Adv. Dr. G.V. Rao, Sr. Adv. Mr. A.K. Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Namrata Mohapatra, Adv. Mr. K.J. John & Co., AOR For Applicant(s) Mr. Prashant Bhushan,Adv. Mr. Pranav Sachdeva,AOR Mr. Sudiep Shrivastava,Adv. Mr. Jatin Bhardwaj,Adv. Ms. Neha Rathi,Adv.

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Mr. Asutosh Sharma,Adv. Ms. Gunjan Sharma,Adv. Mr. S.L.Gupta,Adv. Mr. Neeraj Srivastav,Adv. Ms. Shefali Mitra,Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. S.L.Gupta,Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Ms. Gunjan Sharma,Adv. Mr. Asutosh Sharma,Adv. Mr. Neeraj Srivastav,Adv. Ms. Shefali Mitra,Adv. Mr. Varun Thakur, Adv. Mr. Shashank Ratnoo,Adv. Mr. Brajesh Pandey,Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Nishant Rao, Adv. Ms. Kajal Dalal, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala,AOR Mr. Ritesh Khare,Adv. Ms. Nikita Anand,Adv. Ms. Namrata Chandorkar,Adv. Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR Mr. Ajay Marwah, AOR Mr. Tapan Masta, Adv. Mr. Ayush Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shashikant Chaudhari, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Chaurasiya,Adv. Mr. Ganga Sagar Singh,Adv.

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

Heard Mr. R.Venkatramani, learned Attorney General, learned senior counsel/learned counsel for the parties and petitioners-in-person.

Hearing concluded. Judgment reserved.

Learned counsel for the respective parties are at liberty to file Written submissions, if any, on or before 10th December, 2022.

Learned counsel representing the Union of India and the Reserve Bank of India are directed to produce the relevant records.

(NEELAM GULATI) (ANITA MALHOTRA) (KAMLESH RAWAT) AR-CUM-PS AR-CUM-PS COURT MASTER