1 ITEM NO.501 COURT NO.4 SECTION X,PIL,XVIA S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s). 13/2015 SUPREME COURT ADVOCATES-ON-RECORD ASSOCIATION AND ANOTHER Petitioner(s) VERSUS UNION OF INDIA Respondent(s) (with appln(s) for intervention and impleadment and office report) WITH W.P.(C) No. 23/2015 (With appln.(s) for discharge of advocate on record and Office Report) W.P.(C) No. 70/2015 (With appln.(s) for impleadment and appln.(s) for permission to file lengthy list of dates and Office Report) W.P.(C) No. 83/2015(With Office Report) T.P.(C) No. 391/2015 (With appln.(s) for stay and Office Report) W.P.(C) No. 108/2015 (With appln.(s) for stay and Office Report) W.P.(C) No. 124/2015(With Office Report) W.P.(C) No. 14/2015 appln.(s) for stay and Office Report) W.P.(C) No. 18/2015 Office Report) W.P.(C) No. 24/2015 appln.(s) for ex-parte stay and Office Report) W.P.(C) No. 209/2015 Office Report) W.P.(C) No.309/2015 (with appln(s) for permission to appeasr and argue in person and office report) W.P.(C) No. 310/2015 (with appln(s) for ex-parte stay and office report) W.P.(C) No.323/2015 (with office report) T.P.(C) No.971/2015 W.P.(C) No.341/2015(with office report) Date :10/07/2015 These petitions were called on for hearing today.
2 CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JAGDISH SINGH KHEHAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J. CHELAMESWAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MADAN B. LOKUR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KURIAN JOSEPH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL In WP 13/2015 In WP 23/2015 In WP 70/2015 In WP 83/2015 In WP 108/2015 in WP 124/2015 in WP 14/2015 in WP 18/2015 in WP 24/2015 in WP 209/2015 Mr. Fali S. Nariman, Sr. Adv. Mr. Subhash C. Kasyap, Adv. Mr. Pranav Vyas, Adv. for Mr. Surya Kant, AOR(NP) Mr. Md. Izhar Alam, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Kumar Garg,AOR(NP) Mr. Santosh Paul, Adv. Mr. Joseph Aristotle S.,Adv. Mr. Arvind Gupta, Adv. Mr. M.B. Elakkumanan, Adv. Mr. Malay Swapnil, Adv. Ms. Priya Aristotle, Adv. Mr. Prashant Bhushan,Adv.(NP) Mr. Anil. B. Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. K.N. Bhat, Sr. Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Syed Rehan, Adv. Mr. Ranvir Singh, Adv. Ms. Anindita Pujari,AOR Mr. Jitendra Mahapatra, Adv. Mr. Mathews J. Nedumpara, in person Mr. A.C.Philip, Adv. Mr. Rabin Majumder,AOR Mr. Manohar Lal Sharma, in person Ms. Suman, Adv. Mr. R.K. Kapoor, in person Mr. Bishwajit Bhattacharyya, in person Mr. Rajiv Daiya, in person(np)
3 in WP(C) 309/2015 in WP 310/2015 In WP 323/2015 In WP 341/2015 Mr. P.M. Duraiswamy, in person Mr. V.N. Subramaniam, Adv. Mr. Subhasish Bhowmick, AOR(NP) Mr. S.K.Sinha, Adv. Mr. Mansa Singh, Adv. for Mr. Rabin Majumder,AOR Mr. Sriram P, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Shankar Jain, Adv. for Mr. Ankur S. Kulkarni, AOR Ms. Prachi Bajpai, AOR(NP) in TP(C) No.971/2015 Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. For Respondent(s) (UOI) and for petitioner(s) In TP 391/2015 Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, Attorney General for India Mr. Ranjit Kumar, Solicitor General of India Mr. P.S. Narasimha, ASG Ms. V. Mohana, Sr. Adv. Mr. D.L. Chidananda, Adv. Ms. Madhvi Divan, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Mukherji, Adv. Ms. Binu Tamta, Adv. Mr. Arghya Sengupta, Adv. Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Adv. Ms. Devanshi P., Adv. Ms. Diksha Rai, Adv. Mr. Ajay Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ritwika Sharma, Adv. Mr. A.S. Vishwajith, Adv. for Mr. B.V. Balaram Das, AOR(NP) Mr. Arvind P. Datar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Gautam Narayan, Adv. for SCBA for State of Rajasthan IA 10/2015 Mr. Devashish Bharuka,AOR(NP) Mr. S.S. Shamshery, AAG(NP) Mr. Sandeep Singh, Adv. Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv. for Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR(NP) Mr. Ram Jethmalani, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashish Dixit, in person Ms. Vagisha Kochar, Adv. Ms. Lata Krishnamurti, Adv. Mr. H.K. Naik, Adv.
4 for Mr. Gautam Takuldar, AOR(NP) for State of MP for State of Maharashtra Mr. K.K. Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR(NP) Mr. T.R. Andhyarujina, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nishant Kanteshwarkar, AOR Mr. Arpit Rai, Adv. Mr. Anip Sachthey, Adv. Mr. Saakaar Sardana, Adv. Mr. Edward Belho, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Irshad Ahmad, AAG, Mr. Gaurav Bhatia, AAG Mr. Abhisth Kumar, AOR. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Vijay Pratap Yadav Adv. Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, Adv. Mr. V.N. Raghupathy, Adv. Mr. Ajit Sinha, Sr. Adv. Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Waquas, Adv. Ms. Rachana Srivastava, AOR(NP) Ms. Shashi Juneja, Adv. Mr. A.P. Mayee, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Babu M.R., Adv. Ms. Swati Setia, Adv. Mr. Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Adv. Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Vinakshi Kadan, Adv. for Ms. Hemantika Wahi,AOR Mr. Sanchar Anand, AAG Mr. Apoorv Singhal, Adv. for Mr. Kuldip Singh, AOR Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Suryanarayana Singh, AAG Ms. Pragati Neekhra,AOR(NP)
5 Mr. Ahmad Abdi, Adv. Mr. Shashank Bajpai, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, Adv. Ms. Purnima Jauhari, Adv. Dr. B.K. Jauhari, Adv. Mr. Prakash Kumar Singh,AOR Mr. Harmeet Singh, Adv. Mr. Arun Monga, Adv. Mr. Kudrat Sandhu, Adv. for Mr. Tushar Bakshi, AOR(NP) Mr. Sanjay Visen, Adv. Mr. Jayant Patel, Adv. for Mr. M.Yogesh Kanna, AOR Dr. Rajeev Dhawan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Deepak A. Masih, Adv. Mr. Manreet Kaur, Adv. for Mr. Ramesh N. Keshwani, AOR(NP) Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Krishna sarma, Adv. Mr. Avijit Roy, Adv. Mr. Navnit Kumar, Adv. Ms. Barnali Das, Adv. Ms. Deepika Ghatowar, Adv. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, Adv. Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R Dr. Rajeev Dhawan, learned senior counsel appearing as amicus made his submissions from 10.40 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. Thereafter, Mr. Bishwajit Bhattacharyya, the petitioner in W.P. (C) No.24/2015 addressed the Court till 3.15 p.m. Then, Mr. Manohar Lal Sharma, the petitioner in Writ Petition(C) No.14/2015 made his submissions till 3.45 p.m., followed by Mr. P.M. Duraiswamy, the petitioner in Writ Petition(C) No.309/2015,
6 who addressed the Court for about ten minutes. Mr. R.K. Kapoor, the petitioner in Writ Petition(C) No.18/2015 also addressed the Court till 4.05 p.m., when the Court rose for the day. The matter remained part-heard. List the case again on 14.07.2015 as part-heard. Writ Petition(C) No.14/2015 We have heard Mr. Manohar Lal Sharma, advocate, the petitioner in Writ Petition(C) No. 14/2015. The unconditional apology tendered by him in Court, as also in his reply to the show cause notice dated 1.5.2015, is accepted. He is directed to expunge all derogatory remarks, made against persons not impleaded as parties in the petition, contained in his pleadings by moving an appropriate application for amendment of Writ Petition(C) No. 14 of 2015. He undertakes to comply with the instant direction on or before 14.07.2015. He also undertakes not to make any such or similar derogatory remarks in any public interest litigation, that he will file hereinafter, without supporting material, and without impleading the concerned persons as party respondents. The above undertaking is taken on record. (Renuka Sadana) (Parveen Kr. Chawla) (Satish Kr. Yadav) Court Master AR-cum-PS AR-cum-PS