Anoop Prabhakar vs. Union Of India Through Secretary

ITEM NO.701 COURT NO.1 SECTION III-A

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

Civil Appeal No(s).2286/2006

ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY Appellant(s)

VERSUS

NARESH AGARWAL & ORS. Respondent(s)

(WITH IA No. 3/2009 - IMPLEADMENT , IA No. 235484/2023 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 563/2024 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 19221/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 7/2016 - PERMISSION TO RELY ON THE DOCUMENTS)

WITH

C.A. No. 2321/2006 (III-A)

C.A. No. 2320/2006 (III-A)

C.A. No. 2318/2006 (III-A)

SLP(C) No. 32490/2015 (XI) (WITH IA No. 1/2015 - APP FOR PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS, IA No. 2/2016 - GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF, IA No. 3/2016 - PERMISSION TO FILE ANNEXURES)

W.P.(C) No. 272/2016 (X) (WITH IA No. 1/2016 - STAY APPLICATION)

C.A. No. 2861/2006 (III-A)

C.A. No. 2316/2006 (III-A)

C.A. No. 2319/2006 (III-A)

C.A. No. 2317/2006 (III-A)

T.C.(C) No. 46/2023 (III-A)

Date : 30-01-2024 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

	HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE<br>HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJIV KHANNA<br>HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT<br>HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J.B. PARDIWALA<br>HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DIPANKAR DATTA<br>HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ MISRA<br>HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA
For Appellant(s)<br>CA 2286, 2321<br>2320,2319,<br>2317/2016	Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. T. V. S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR<br>Mr. N Sai Vinod, Adv.<br>Mr. Naveen Hegde, Adv.<br>Mr. Siddharth Vasudev, Adv.<br>Ms. Gayatri Gulati, Adv.
CA 2318/2006	Mr. R Venkataramani, Attorney General for India<br>Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General<br>Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G.<br>Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G.<br>Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR<br>Mr. V Mohna, Adv.<br>Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv.<br>Mr. Kartikay Aggarwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv.<br>Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv.<br>Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv.<br>Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv.<br>Mr. Madhav Sinhal, Adv.<br>Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Adv.<br>Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv.<br>Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv.<br>Mr. Rohit Khare, Adv.<br>Mr. Apoorv Kurup, Adv.<br>Mr. R Bala, Adv.<br>Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR
SLP C 32490/2015	Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR<br>Mr. Debadutta Kanungo, Adv.
WP C 272/2016	Mr. Govind Jee, AOR<br>Mr. Omanakuttan K K, Adv.<br>Mr. Ramesh Kumar Mishra, AOR
CA 2861/2006	Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Aftab Ali Khan, AOR<br>Mr. Bahar. U. Barqi, Adv.<br>Mr. Nizam Pasha, Adv.<br>Ms. Aparajita Jamwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Ali Safeer Farooqi, Adv.

	Ms. Rupali<br>Samuels, Adv.<br>Mr. Rishabh Parikh, Adv.<br>Ms. Sumedha Sarkar, Adv.<br>Mr. Mohd. Taiyub Khan, Adv.<br>Mr. Z. K. Faizan, Adv.<br>Mr. Syed Shahid Hussain Rizvi, Adv.<br>Mr. Mansoor Ali, Adv.<br>Mr. Mohd. Yunus, Adv.
CA 2316/2006	Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR<br>Mr. Aman Naqvi, Adv.<br>Mr. Harshit Anand, Adv.<br>Ms. Hrishika Jain, Adv.<br>Ms. Natasha Maheshwari, Adv.<br>Ms. Mreganka Kukreja, Adv.<br>Mr. Abhishek Babbar, Adv.<br>Mr. Ajesh K. Chawla, Adv.<br>Ms. Shivangi Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Saket Gautam, Adv.<br>Ms. Mahesh Sharma, Adv.
TC C 46/2023	By Courts Motion
For Respondent(s)<br>UOI	Mr. R Venkataramani, Attorney General for India<br>Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General<br>Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G.<br>Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G.<br>Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR<br>Mr. V Mohna, Adv.<br>Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv.<br>Mr. Kartikay Aggarwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv.<br>Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv.<br>Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv.<br>Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv.<br>Mr. Madhav Sinhal, Adv.<br>Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Adv.<br>Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv.<br>Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv.<br>Mr. Rohit Khare, Adv.<br>Mr. Apoorv Kurup, Adv.<br>Mr. R Bala, Adv.<br>Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR
R-11 in<br>CA 2320/2006	Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, AOR<br>Mr. Vikas Chandra Shukla, Adv.<br>Ms. Aditi Tripathi, Adv.<br>Mr. Eklavya Dwivedi, Adv.<br>Ms. Sanskriti Pathak, Adv.<br>Mr. Merusagar Samantray, Adv.<br>Mr. Aditya Shekhar, Adv.

Mr. Akash Vajpai, Adv.<br>Mr. Bhakti Vardhan Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. VVV Pattabhiram, Adv.<br>Mr. Atulesh Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Alabhya Dhamija, Adv.<br>Mr. T. Bhaskar Gautham, Adv.<br>Mr. Anirudh Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Aditya Kashyap, Adv.<br>Mr. Shubhendu Anand, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, Adv.<br>Mr. Baijnath Patel, Adv.<br>Ms. Himadri Haksar, Adv.<br>Mr. Narayan Dev Parashar, Adv.<br>R-37 in CA2318/6<br>Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv.<br>R-1 in CA 2286/6<br>Mr. Guru Krishna Kumar, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Santosh Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Bhakti Vardhan Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Praneet Pranav, Adv.<br>Mr. Rahul G. Tanwani, Adv.<br>Mr. Aman Jha, Adv.<br>Mr. Sudipto Sircar, Adv.<br>Ms. Sindhoora Vnl, Adv.<br>Mr. Mohit Pandey, Adv.<br>Ms. Ankita Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Yashraj Bundela, Adv.<br>Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv.<br>Ms. Shriya Gilhotra, Adv.<br>Mr. Rishi Tutu, Adv.<br>Mr. Raghav Agarwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv.<br>Mr. Sanyat Lodha, Adv.<br>Mr. Sandeep Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Toshiv Goyal, Adv.<br>Mr. R. C. Kohli, AOR<br>Mr. Avnish Dave, Adv.<br>Mr. Vaibhav Dwivedi, Adv.<br>Mr. Vinay Navare, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Archana P. Dave, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Shuchi Singh, AOR<br>Mr. Gautam Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Aditya Sharma, Adv.<br>Ms. Ankita Choudhary, Adv.<br>Mr. Kumar Prashant, Adv.<br>Ms. Rashmi Singhania, Adv.<br>Mr. Aditya Shekhar, Adv.<br>Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajan Chaurasia, Adv.		Mr. Pashupati Razdan, Adv.

Mr. Adarsh Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Ayush Anand, Adv. Mr. Baij Nath Patel, Adv. Ms. Alpana Sharma, Adv. Mr. Pravartak Pathak, Adv. Mr. Ranjeet Mishra, Adv. Ms. Bharti Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Pramod Kumar Vishnoi, Adv. Mr. Akshat, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Thakur, Adv. Mr. Shaswat Nath, Adv. Mr. Shespal Sai, Adv. Mr. Gopal Jha, Adv. Mr. Sayooj Mohandas, Adv. Mr. Govind Kumar, Adv. Mr. Alabhya Dhamija, Adv. Mr. Nisarg Choudhary, Adv. Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Adv. Mr. N Sai Vinod, Adv. Mr. Naveen Hegde, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Vasudev, Adv. Ms. Gayatri Gulati, Adv. Mr. T. V. S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv. Mrs. Naghma Imtiaz, Adv. Ms. Azra Rehman, Adv. Ms. Sommya Chaturvedi, Adv. Ms. Sonika Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Satakshi Mathur, Adv. Mr. Zargham Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Saif Naseem, Adv. Mr. Md Irshad Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Syed Imtiyaz Ali, Adv. Mr. Tanveer Khan, Adv. Mrs. Seema Khan, Adv. Mrs. Rubina Javed, Adv. Mr. Sheikh Imran, Adv. For M/S. Equity Lex Associates, AOR Mr. Prem Prakash, AOR Mr. Manoj Ranjan Sinha, Adv. Ms. Nisha, Adv. Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, AOR Mr. Saif Zia, Adv.

Mr. Gaurav Sharma, AOR Mr. Dhawal Mohan, Adv. Mr. Prateek Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Paranjay Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Raj, Adv. Mr. Ankita Dogra, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Vivek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Kumar Tewari, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Pratyush Prakash, Adv. Ms. Isha Singh, Adv. Ms. Snehil Sonam, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Arun Kanwa, Adv. Mr. Vignesh Singh, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Devendra Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR Mr. Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Y. Lokesh, Adv. Mr. V. Kandha Prabhu, Adv. Ms. Maitri Goal, Adv. Mr. Sachin Kumar Verma, Adv. Mr. Neeleshwar Pavani, Adv. Mr. Prem Prakash, Adv. Mr. Suresh Kumar Thakur, Adv. Mr. Syed Mehdi Imam, AOR Mr. Mohd Parvez Dabas, Adv. Mr. Uzmi Jamil Husain, Adv. Mr. Atif Shuhrawardy, Adv. Mr. Tabrez Ahmad, Adv. Mr. Aqib Baig, Adv. Mr. Anisul Haque, Adv. Mr. Rashid Ali Khan, Adv. Mr. Atarup Bannerjee, Adv. Mr. Abu Sohel, Adv. Mr. Sunando Raha, Adv. Mr. Pulkit Agarwal, AOR Mr. Kunal Malik, Adv. Ms. Sampriti Baksi, Adv. Mr. Nishant Singh, Adv. Ms. Smriti Churiwal, Adv. Mr. Aviral Vikas Khare, Adv. Mr. Sunny Khivansara, Adv.

Mr. Ashish Ingle, Adv. Mr. Mohd Sharyab Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Md Anas Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Utkarsh Singh, Adv. Dr. Vivek Sharma, AOR Mr. M. R. Shamshad, AOR Mr. Arijit Sarkar, Adv. Ms. Nabeela Jamil, Adv. Mr. Zaki Ahmad Khan, Adv. Mr. Sarwar Raza, Adv.

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

• 1 Arguments heard in part.
• 2 List the matters tomorrow (31 January 2024) as part-heard matter for further hearing.

(SANJAY KUMAR-I) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR) DEPUTY REGISTRAR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR