Anuja Kapur vs. Union Of India& Ors.

COURT NO.8

ITEM NO.31

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

<pre>Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s). 3/2018</pre>

ANUJA KAPUR

Petitioner(s)

SECTION PIL-W

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. Respondent $(s)$ (IA No. 171907/2019 - APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION FROM PAYMENT OF COSTS IA No. 170084/2019 - APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION FROM PAYMENT OF COSTS IA No. 141874/2019 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS IA No. 83155/2019 - DELETING THE NAME OF PETITIONER/RESPONDENT) Date: 14-11-2022 These matters were called on for hearing today. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJIV KHANNA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J.K. MAHESHWARI For Petitioner(s) Petitioner-in-person For Respondent(s) Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, ASG Mr. Gopal Jha, Adv. Mr. P.V. Yogeswaran, Adv. Mr. Samantaray, Adv. Mr. R.Bala, Sr. Adv. Ms. Suhashini Sen, Adv. Ms. Shradha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Adv. Ms. Priyadarshani Priya, Adv. Mr. T.B. Gowtham, Adv. Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Arpit Parkash Adv. Mr. Vikalp Sharma, Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Ms. Diksha Rai, AOR Mr. Vivek Mishra, Adv.

Ms. Ragini Pandey, Adv.

Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR Mr. S. Reddy, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Ms. Niharika Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Narendra Pal Sharma, Adv. Mr. T. Veera Reddy, Adv. Mr. T.L.V. Ramachari, Adv. Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Advocate Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Mr. Dhruv Wadhwa, Adv. Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Ms. Niharika Modgil, Adv. Mr. Ravinder Pal Singh, Adv. Ms. Ruchira Gupta, Adv. Ms. Nancy Shah, Adv. Mr. Shishir Deshpande, AOR Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. Shekhar Raj Sharma, DAG Mr. Paras Dutta, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Mr. Abhimanyu Jhamba, Adv. Ms. Hatneimawi, Adv. Ms. Thanpinao Thangal, Adv. Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Mr. Abdulla Naseeh V.T., ADv. Ms. Meena K. Poulose, Adv. Mr. Sachin Patil, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Geo Joseph, Adv. Mr. Risvi Muhammed Adv. Mr. Durgesh Gupta, Adv.

Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR

Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv. Ms. P.S. Negi, Ad.v Mr. K.V. Khavlyngdoh, Adv. Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv. Mr. Marbiang Khongwir, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, AOR Mr. Rohit K. Singh, AOR Mr. Ashok Parija, Adv. Mr. Sibo Shankar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Debabrata Dash, Adv. Mr. Umakant Mishra, Adv. Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR Mr. Mayank Dahiya, Adv. Ms. Priyanka C., Adv. Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anand Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Nishant Verma, Adv. Simanta Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Kumar Sinha, Adv. Ms. Rajlakshmi Singh, Adv. Mr. Sunil Saraogi, Adv. Mr. Varun Singh, Adv Mr. Jainendra Ojha, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Sinha, Adv. Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Ms. Ruchira Goel, AOR Mr. Arun Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Adit Jayeshbhai Shah, Adv. Dr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Mr. Krishnan Mishra, Adv. Mr. V. Jha, Adv.

Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Ms. Mantika Haryani, Adv.

Mr. Shreyash Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Devvrat Singh, Adv. Ms. G. Indira, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Abbas B., Adv. Mr. Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Ashwani Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. Chandra Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Mahfooz A. Nazki, AOR Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv. Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Adv. Mr. T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv. Mr. K.V.Girish Chowdary, Adv. Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Adv. Ms. Niti Richhariya, Adv. Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., AOR Ms. Nupur Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shobhit Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kr. Mahara, Adv. Ms. Vaidehi Rastogi, Adv. Mr. Siddhesh Kotwal, Adv. Ms. Ara Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Manya Hasija, Adv. Mr. Akash Singh, Adv. Mr. Nihar Dharmadhikari, Adv. Ms. Sampriti Baksi, Adv. Mr. N. Dube, AOR Mr. Shailash Madiyal, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Sabharwal, Adv. Mr. Vinayaka S. Pandit, Adv. Mr. Rajan Parmar, aDv. Ms. Rakhi M., Adv. Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Ms. Sweena Nair, Adv. Mr. Avi Srivastva, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR

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

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I.A. No. 133937 of 2022

Mr. Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay, who appears in-person seeks permission to withdraw the present application and file a detailed application with particulars within a period of two weeks.

In view of the statement made, the application is dismissed as withdrawn with liberty, as prayed.

Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, the learned Additional Solicitor General will file the latest status report in response to the prayers made in the amended writ petition within a period of four weeks from today.

The copy of the said report will also be made available to Mr. Ashwani Kumar Upadhayay.

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(BABITA PANDEY) COURT MASTER (SH)

(R.S. NARAYANAN) COURT MASTER (NSH)