ORDER

1. At the foremost, we have carefully gone through the review petition filed by the Union of India and the connected papers and heard the arguments of Mr. G.E. Vahanvati, learned Attorney General. The main ground for review raised by learned Attorney General is that the Union of India was not duly served with the notice of the proceedings in any of the petition for special leave to appeal which were subsequently converted into civil appeals. In addition to the claim of the learned Attorney General, Mr. D.S. Mahra, Advocate-on-Record for the Union of India, in his letter dated 06.09.2012, addressed to the Registrar (Judicial), Supreme Court of India, has highlighted that since the counsel appearing for the original appellants contended that the Union of India was duly served and the office report shows that there was proof of delivery duly signed, he requested the Registrar (Judicial) to verify the correct position and ascertain whether the office report is correct and whether it can be said that there is proof of service on the Union of India.

2. In view of the above assertion on behalf of the Union of India about the defective service, we called for a Report from the Registr