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2018 Supreme(SC) 519

DIPAK MISRA, A. K. SIKRI, A. M. KHANWILKAR, D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, ASHOK BHUSHAN
K. S. PUTTASWAMY (RETD) – Appellant
Versus
UNION OF INDIA – Respondent


Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioners:Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv., Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv., Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR, Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv., Mr. K.V. Viswanathan, Sr. Adv., Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv., Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv., Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR, Mr. P. Chidambaram, Sr. Adv., Mr. Muhammad Ali Khan, Adv., Mr. Vikramaditya Singh, Adv., Mr. R.V. Prabhat, Adv., Mr. Omar Hoda, Adv., Mr. Gaurav Gupta, Adv., Mr. Abhishek Jebraj, Adv., Mr. Jaspal Singh, Adv., Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv., Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR, Ms. Prianka Rao Khan, Adv., Mr. Namrah Nasir, Adv., Mr. K.V. Viswanathan, Sr. Adv., Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv., Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv., Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv., Mr. T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR, Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR, Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv., Mr. Anirben Sen, Adv., Mr. Gopal Thiruman, Adv., Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv., Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv., Ms. Vaidruti Mishra, Adv., Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv., Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR, Mr. Ravinder Lokhande, Adv., Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv., Dr. Anindita Pujari, Adv., Mr. Prasanna S., Adv., Mr. Kavita Bhardwaj, Adv., Ms. Ratna Apprender, Adv., Mr. Sautik Banerjee, Adv., Mr. Amit Mohan Meharia, Adv., Mrs. Tannishtha Singh, Adv., Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv., for M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR, Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR, Mr. P.R. Kovilan, Adv., Ms. Aswathi M.K., Adv., Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv., Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR, Mr. P.B. Suresh, Adv., Mr. Udayadita Banerjee, Adv., Mr. S. Prasanna, Adv., Ms. Samiksha Godiyal, Adv., Mr. Abhay Pratap Singh, Adv., Mr. V.K. Biju, Adv., Mr. Prithu Garg, Adv., Mr. Govind Manoharan, Adv., Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv., Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR, Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv., Mr. Shashwat Goel, Adv., Ms. Garima Jain, Adv., Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR, Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Gupta, Adv., Mr. Rajendra Kumar Singh, Adv., Mr. R.K. Rajwanshi, Adv., Mr. Chandra Shekhar Suman, Adv., Mrs. Rita Gupta, Adv., Ms. Deepshikha Bharati, Adv., Ms. Harsha, Adv., M/s. K.J. John And Co, AOR, Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR, Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR, Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR, Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR, Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR, Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR, Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR, Petitioner-in-person
For the Respondents: Mr. K.K. Venugopal, ASG Mr. Harish V. Shankar, Adv., Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv., Ms. Rukmini S. Bobde, Adv., Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv., Mr. Kumar Shashank, Adv., Mr. S.S. Rebello, Adv., Ms. Nivedita Nair, Adv., Ms. Sneha Prabhu Tendulkar, Adv., Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv., Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv., Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv., Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv., Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv., Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv., Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv., Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv., Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv., Mr. Fahad Khan, Adv., Ms. Bhavita Kumar, Adv., Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv., Mr. M.K. Maroria, Adv., Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv., Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv., Ms. Namit Saxena, Adv., Mr. Devanshu Sajlan, Adv., Mr. Aditya P. Arora, Adv., Mr. Digant K. Deo, Adv., Ms./Mr. Pallavi Pratap, AOR, Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv., Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR, Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv., Ms. Sanskriti Pathak, Adv., Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv., Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv., Mr. H.S. Parihar, AOR, Mr. J.S. Attri, Sr. Adv., Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR, Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, Adv., Ms. Annu K. Joy, Adv., Mr. Manav Vohra, Adv., Mr. Krishna Dev J., Adv., Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv., Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.A., Adv., Ms. Svadha Shankar, Adv., Mr. Amith Krishnan, Adv., Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR, Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv., Mr. N.R. Katneshwarker, Adv., Mr. G. Prakash, Adv., Mr. Jishnu M.L., Adv., Mrs. Priyanka Prakash, Adv., Mrs. Beena Prakash, Adv., Mr. Vijay Shankar V.L., Adv., Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv., Mr. Pratibhanu S. Kharola, Adv., Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv., Mr. Saransh Jain, Adv., Mr. Madhavam Sharma, Adv., Mr. Meka Venkata Rama Krishna, Adv., Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR, Mr. R. Sudhinder, Adv., Ms. Amrita Sarkar, Adv., Mr. Raja Chatterjee, Adv., Mr. Adeel Ahmed, Adv., Mr. Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Adv., Mr. Chanchal Kr. Ganguli, AOR, Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR, Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv., Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv., Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Adv., Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv., Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv., Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, AOR, Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR, Mr. Mohd. Waquas, Adv., Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv., Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv., Mr. Ratan Kr. Choudhuri, Adv., Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR, Mr. S. Bhowmick, Adv., Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR, Mr. Daniel S. Lyngdoh, Adv., Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR, Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv., Mr. Edward Belho, AAG, Nagaland Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv., Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv., Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv., Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv., Ms. V. Mohana, Sr. Adv., Mr. Y.P. Adhyari, Adv., Ms. Rashmi Malhotra, Adv., Mr. Amit Mohan Meharia, Adv., Mrs. Tannishtha Singh, Adv., Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv., for M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR, Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv., Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv., Mrs. G. Indira, Adv., Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv., Mr. Sayooj Mohandas, Adv., Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR, Ms. Fauzia Shakil, Adv., Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv., Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan, Adv., Mr. V.G. Pragasam, AOR, Mr. S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv., Mr. S. Manuraj, Adv., Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR, Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv., Mr. Devadatt Kamat, AAG, Karnataka Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv., Mrs. Priya Aristotle, Adv., Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv., Mr. Ashish Yadav, Adv., Mr. Javedur Rehman, Adv., Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv., Mr. K.V. Vijayakumar, AOR, Ms. Maitreyee Mishra, Adv., Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR, Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv., Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv., Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv., Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Adv., Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv., Mr. T.G.N. Nair, Adv., Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv., Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv., Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv., Ms. Simran Jeet, Adv., for M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR, Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR, Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv., Mr. Anil Grover, AAG, Haryana Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv., Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR, Mr. L.D. Joshi, Adv., Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Adv., Ms. Savita Singh, AOR, Mr. Shanu Agrawal, Adv., Mr. Shrutanjay Bhardwaj, Adv., Ms. Veera Mahuli, Adv., M/s. Lawyer S Knit & Co, AOR, Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR, Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR, Mr. Dinkar Kalra, AOR, Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR, Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR, Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR, Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR, Mr. T.G. Narayanan Nair, AOR, Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR, Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR, Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR, Mr. Manish Vashishtha, AOR, Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR, M/s. Corporate Law Group, AOR, Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR, Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR, Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR, Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR, Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR, Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR, Intervenor-in-person, AOR, Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR, Applicant-in-person, AOR, Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR, Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR, M/s. Khaitan & Co., AOR, Mr. Harsh Kaushik, AOR, Mr. K.R. Sasiprabhu, AOR, Mr. M. P. Vinod, AOR, Mr. Koshy John, Adv., Mr. Md. Nizam Pasha, Adv., Ms. Anusha Nagarajan, Adv., Mr. Adit Pujari, Adv., Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR, Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Adv., Ms. Samten Doma, Adv., Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv., Ms. N. Gupta, Adv., Mr. Neeraj Redhu, Adv., Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv., Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR, Mr. Saikrishna Rajgopal, Adv., Ms. Julien George, Adv., Ms. Arundhati Gopal, Adv., Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv., Ms. Vaneesha Jain, Adv., Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Adv., Mr. P.V. Surendra Nath, Sr. Adv., Ms. Resmitha R. Chandran, Adv., Ms. Lekha Sudhakaran, Adv., Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv., Ms. Shivani Khandekar, Adv., Mr. S. Mukherjee, Adv., Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR, Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv., Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv., Ms. Aparna Bhat, Adv., Mr. Mayank Sapra, Adv.,

ORDER :

1. Mr. P. Chidambaram, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner in W.P.(C) No. 231/2016 concluded his arguments. Mr. K.V. Viswanathan, learned senior counsel for the petitioner in W.P.(C) No. 833/2013, who has commenced his arguments has assured that he will finish his arguments by 1.00 p.m. tomorrow.

2. Mr. Arvind Datar, learned senior counsel has brought to our notice that a set of Rules, namely, the Passports (1st Amendment) Rules, 2018 has been introduced which has conceived of Passport under “Tatkal” Scheme. There has been a distinction between the earlier one and the present one. Mr. Arvind Datar and Mr. Shyam Divan, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioners submitted that the interim order passed by this Court on 15.12.2017 should be extended, and also it should cover the arena relating to the grant of Passports. On a query being made, Mr. K.K. Venugopal, learned Attorney General for India submitted that this Court may think of extending the interim order. However, the benefits, subsidies and services covered under Section 7 of the The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 should remain undis






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