S. Sakunthala vs. The Union Of India

COURT NO.14

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Civil Appeal No.1385/2025

ANJUMAN ISHAAT E TALEEM TRUST

Appellant

VERSUS

THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA & ORS.

Respondents

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Date : 03-04-2025 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DIPANKAR DATTA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANMOHAN

For Appellant(s) : Mr. D. Kumanan, AOR

Mr. Amol Chitale, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Sharma, Adv. Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR

Mr. S. Nagamuthu, Sr. Adv. Mr. P. Wilson, Sr. Adv. Mr. M. P. Parthiban, AOR Mr. Shankaran, Sr. Adv. Mr. Apoorv Malhotra, Adv. Mr. Lokesh Krishna, Adv.

M/S. Shakil Ahmad Syed, AOR

Mr. Ans Nadkarni, Sr. Adv. Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, AOR

Ms. Nivedita Nair, Adv.

Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR

Mr. K.radhakrishnan, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR

Ms. Jahnavi Taneja, Adv.

Mr. C. Kranthi Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv.

Mr. Riddi Bose, Adv.

Ms. Racheeta Chawla, Adv.

Ms. Sampriti Bakshi, Adv.

Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv.

Ms. Rishi Agarwal, Adv.

For Respondent(s) :Mr. A. S. Rajnarayan, Adv. Ms. Neelam Singh, AOR Mr. Krishan Kant Kumar, Adv. Mr. R Venkataramani, Attorney General for India Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR Mr. Vatsal Joshi, Adv. Ms. Satvika Thakur, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Mr. Kartikay Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Ms. Ameya Vikrma Thanvi, Adv. Mr./Ms. Oorjaswi Goswani, Adv. Mr. Gopal Sankarnarayanan, Sr. Adv. Mr. K. Paari Vendhan, AOR Mr. Vishal Sinha, Adv. Mr. Tushar Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Shashibhushan P. Adgaonkar, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Ms. Manisha T Karia, Sr. Adv. Ms. Shalini Chandra, AOR Mr. Deepin Deepak Sahni, Adv. Ms. Ananya Arora, Adv. Ms. Shreya Gupta, Adv. Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, AOR Mr. Abdulrahiman Tamboli, Adv. Mr. Rahul Joshi, AOR Mrs. N. Kavitha Rameshwar, Adv. Mr. A. Rajarajan, Adv. Mrs. L. Vasuki Rajarajan, Adv. Mr. R. Ramachandran, Adv. Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. Mohd Parvez Dabas, Adv. Mr. Uzmi Jameel Husain, Adv. Mr. Syed Mehdi Imam, AOR Mr. Vinamra Kopariha, Adv. Mr. Yash S. Vijay, AOR Mr. K Parameshwar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. T. Bhaskar Gowtham, Adv. Ms. Shuchi Singh, Adv. Mr. Vivek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Ms. Shivani Mishra, Adv.

Mr. Alabhya Dhamija, Adv. Mr. Aditya Kashyap, Adv. Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar,, Adv. Mr. Ayush Anand, AOR Mr. Sai Shashank V,, Adv. Mr. Praneet Pranav, Adv. Mr. Bhaskar Gautam, Adv. Dr. G Babu, Adv. Mr. Mugundhan, Adv. Mr. Monu Kumar, Adv. Dr. Vinod Kumar Tewari, AOR Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Bhoopesh Pandey, Adv. Mr. Jitesh Sharma, Adv. Ms. Saumya Mishra, Adv. Mr. Bharat Bhushan Mishra, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Jain, Adv. Mr. Ankit Goel, AOR Mr. Rakesh Mishra, AOR Ms. Deepika Kalia, Adv. Ms. Vasudha Singh, Adv. Ms. Vaishnavi, Adv. Ms. Madhumeet Kaur, Adv. Mr. Sudeep Chandra, Adv. Mr. Pratyaksh Semwal, Adv. Mr. Mohnish Nirwan, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vipin Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Umesh Dubey, AOR Ms. N. Kavitha Rameshwar, Adv. Mr. A. Rajarajan, Adv. Ms. L. Vasuki Rajarajan, Adv. Mr. R. Ramchandran, Adv. Mr. Parth Sarathi, Adv. Mr. Gyanendra Vikram Singh, Adv. Ms. Soumya Gulati, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Mrs. Shantha Devi Raman, Adv. Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR Mr. Parth Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Arihant Jain, Adv. Ms. Tanisha Gopal, Adv. Mr. Sameer Shrivastava, AOR

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Mr. Palak Mathur, Adv. Ms. Yashika Varshney, Adv.

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

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• 1. Delay condoned.
• 2. Leave granted.

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3. Arguments concluded.

4. Judgment is reserved.

5. Soft copy of written notes of arguments be compiled by the parties and submitted in a pendrive within seven days.

(RASHMI DHYANI PANT) (SUDHIR KUMAR SHARMA) ASTT. REGISTRAR-cum-PS COURT MASTER (NSH)