2010 Supreme(SC) 630
DALVEER BHANDARI, DEEPAK VERMA
PEOPLES UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES – Appellant
Versus
UNION OF INDIA – Respondent
Advocates Appeared:
Colin Gonsalves, Senior Advocate (Divya Jyoti and Ms Jyoti Mendiratta, Advocates) for the Petitioner;
Mohan Parasaran and Prashant P. (for T. Harish Kumar, Advocate), Additional Solicitor General, Sahil K. Dwivedi, Additional Advocate General, R. Sundaravardan, Prarnod, Swamp and P.S. Patwalia, Senior Advocates [D.L. Chidanand, Ms Sunita Sharma (for Ms Sushma Suri, Ms Anil Katiyar, D.S. Mehra, B.V. Balaram Das), Jana Kalyan Das (NP), Ms Hemantika Wahi, Ms Nupur Kanungo, Ms lndra Sawhney, Milind Kumar, Navneet Kumar (for M/s Corporate Law Group), Ms Rachana Srivastava, S.S. Shamshery, T.V. George (NP), Divyesh P. Singh (for Ms Kamini Jaiswal), Kh. Nobin Singh, Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Ranjan Mukherjee, V.G. Pragasam. S.J. Aristotle, Prabu Ramasubramanian, Jatinder Kr. Bhatia (NP), R.K. Gupta, Rajiv Dubey, Kamlendra Mishra, Ravi Prakash Mehrotra (NP), Gopal Singh, Manish Kumar, Rituraj Biswas, Ms Neelam Sharma, Kishan Datta (for Tara Chandra Sharma), Anil Shrivastav, Ritu Raj, Edward Belho, P. Athuimei R. Naga, Enatoli a Serna, P.V. Yogeswaran, Sanjiv Sen, P. Parameswaran, Ms Anuja Chopra, Atul Jha (for D.K. Sinha), Gopal Prasad, Ms Anjana Chandrashekar (NP), Ramesh Babu M.R. (NP), Ms D. Bharati Reddy (NP), Sanjay R. Hegde, C.K. Sucharita, Ms Sumita Hazarika (NP), Ms A. Subhashini, Kuldip Singh (NP), Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure (NP), Ajay Majithia, Rajesh Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Vishwajit Singh (NP), Sanjay V. Kharde, Ms Asha G. Nair, K.V. Mohan (NP), Rajesh Srivastava (NP), Anuvrat Sharma (NP), K.N. Madhusoodhanan (for R. Sathish), R.C. Kaushik (NP), Pradeep b Misra (NP), Venkateswara Rao Anumolu (NP), B.S. Banthia, Vikas Upadhyay, G. Prakash, V. Senthil, Anil Kr. Jha (NP), Vikas Mehta, Naresh K. Sharma (NP), Anis Suhrawardy (NP), Sunil Fernandes, S.M. Jadhav (NP), Ms Arona Mathur, Amarjeet Singh Girsa (for M/s Arputham Arona & Co.), Sachin Das (for Abhijit Sengupta), Bikas Kargupta, Ms M. Indrani (for Abhhijit Sengupta), Manish Pitale and Wasi Haider (for C.S. Ashri), J.R. Das (NP), Advocates] for the Respondents.
ORDER
1. We have heard Mr. Colin Gonsalves, learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Mohan Parasaran, learned Additional Solicitor General for India. We have discussed the various aspects of the matter, including the extract of the main recommendation of Justice Wadhwa Central Vigilance Committee Report and the note which was prepared by the Food Secretary, Government of India.
2. General complaint is that people below poverty line (for short "BPL") are not able to get full benefit of public distribution system (for short "PDS"). The main cause is, because even people above poverty line are also entitled to get the benefit of PDS in most of the places, it is desirable that people who are above poverty line should not get the benefit of PDS and the entire E benefit be extended to BPL, including expanding of BPL. The Government can fix the income and other norms immediately so that the benefit is extended to all those who genuinely deserve it more than the other category (above poverty line).
3. Secondly, Justice Wadhwa has submitted a report pertaining to 11 States and part report regarding Tamil Nadu. One common thread which runs through all the reports is that there is huge
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