2016 Supreme(SC) 1314
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
DIPAK MISRA, AMITAVA ROY, JJ.
Justice Sunanda Bhandare Foundation - Petitioner
Versus
Union of India & Anr. – Respondents
I.A. Nos.10-11 & 13 of 2015 in Writ Petition(Civil) No.116 of 1998.
Decided on : 01-12-2016.
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Ms. Manali Singhal, Mr. Santosh Sachin, Mr. B.P. Sarangi, Mr. Tejasvi Kumar, Mr. S. Sarfaraz Karim, Advocates and Mr. Ambar Qamaruddin, AOR.
For the Respondent:Dr. Monika Gusain, Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, Mr. Abhishek Chaudhary, Mr. Sanjay Visen, Advocate, Mr. Anil Kumar Tandale, Mr. Anil Shrivastav, Mr. Ritu Raj, Advocate, Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, Mr. A. Selvin Raja, Mr. Charuddha Mahindrakar, Advocates, Mr. Anuvrat Sharma, Mr. Arjun Garg, Mr. Arun K. Sinha, Mr. Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Advocate, Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, Mr. Naresh Kumar Gaur, Mr. M. Ghanashyam, Advocates, Mr. Ashok Mathur, Mr. B. Balaji, Mr. C. D. Singh, Mr. Sandeepan Pathak, Advocate, Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, Mr. D. S. Mahra, Mr. Gopal Singh, Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Ms. Varsha Poddar, Advocates, Mr. Gopal Singh, Mr. Manish Kumar, Ms. Varsha Poddar, Advocates, Mr. Shreyas Jain, Advocate, Mr. G. Prakash, Mr. Gulshan Bajwa, Mr. Sourabh Ajay Guta, Mr. Nishant Bishnoi, Advocates, Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, Mr. K. V. Mohan, Mr. M. A. Krishna Moorthy, Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, Mr. Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Advocate, Mr. Parijat Sinha, Mr. P. N. Gupta, Mr. P. N. Ramalingam, Mr. Prashant Kumar, Mr. Praveen Swarup, Mr. Shikhar Garg, Advocate, Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, Mr. Rajeev Sharma, AOR and Mr. Rajiv Mehta, Mr. A.K. Sanghi, Mrs. V. Mohana, Sr. Advocates, Mr. Suryanarayana Singh, Sr. AAG , Mr. Rajiv Nanda, Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, Mr. Ranbir Singh Yadav, Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, Mr. R. Sathish, Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Mr. Satish Vig, Mrs. D. Bharathi Reddy, Mr. Shibashish Misra, Mr. Shree Pal Singh, Mr. G.M. Kawoosa, Advocate, Mr. Sunil Fernandes, Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, Mohd. Waquas, Advocate, Mr. Aditya P. Singh, Advocate, Mr. T. V. George, Mr. V. G. Pragasam, Mr. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Advocate, Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, Ms. A. Subhashini, M/s. Corporate Law Group, Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Advocate, Ms. G. Indira, Ms. Hemantika Wahi, Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Mr. Pratap Venugopal, Ms. Surekha Raman, Advocates, Mr. Anuj Sarma, Ms. Niharika, Mr. Aman Shukla, Ms. Kanika Kalaiyarasan, Advocates, for M/s. K. J. John & Co., Ms. Niranjana Singh, Ms. Pragati Neekhra, Ms. Rachana Srivastava, Ms. Sumita Hazarika, Ms. Sushma Suri, Ms. Susmita Lal, Ms. Rajkumari Banju, Mr. Manoj R. Sinha, Mr. R.P. Goyal, Ms. Sunita Sharma, Mr. R.K. Malhotra, Ms. Rekha Pandey, Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Mr. R.K. Rathore, Mr. Amrish Kr. Sharma, Ms. Rekha Pandey, Mr. B.K. Prasad, Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, Ms. Prerna Singh, Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, Ms. Nithya, Mr. C.K. Sasi, Manukri Shwan, Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Mr. Baskula Athik, Mr. Kunal A. Cheema, Mr. Yogesh K. Ahirrao, Mr. Nishant R. Katneshwarkar, Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Mr. Sayooj Mohandas M., Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Mr. Amit Sharma, Mr. Prateek Yadav, Mr. Ankit Raj, Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Mr. Edward Belho, Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Ms. Aruna Mathur and Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Advocates.
Timely filing of responses by concerned States and Union Territory is crucial in legal proceedings.
Headnote:
Response Filing - States' Response - The court directed the States to file their response within three weeks, and the Union Territory of Lakshadweep to provide a copy of the response to the petitioner's counsel.
Fact of the Case:
The petitioner submitted that four States and a Union Territory had not filed their response to the matter.
Finding of the Court:
The court directed the Union Territory of Lakshadweep to provide a copy of the response and ordered the other States to file their response within three weeks.
Issues: Failure of States and Union Territory to file response within stipulated time.
Ratio Decidendi: The court emphasized the importance of timely filing of responses by the concerned States and Union Territory.
Final Decision: The court ordered the Union Territory of Lakshadweep to provide a copy of the response and directed the other States to file their response within three weeks.
ORDER :
It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that four States, namely, States of Maharashtra, West Bengal, Telangana and Jammu & Kashmir and the Union Territory of Lakshadweep have not filed their response.
2. Learned counsel appearing for the Union Territory of Lakshadweep submits that she has already filed the response. Let a copy of the same be handed over to the learned counsel for the petitioner. As far as the other States are concerned, let the response be filed within three weeks.
3. Let the matter be listed in the second week of January, 2017.
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