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2016 Supreme(SC) 1628
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
T.S. THAKUR, CJI., UDAY U. LALIT, J.
M.C. Mehta - Petitioner
Versus
Union of India & Ors. - Respondents
I.A. Nos. 371, 372, 375, 376-377, 378-379, 380-381, 382, 383-384, 385-386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391-392, 393, 394, 397-398, 399-400, 401, 402-403, 404, 405-406, 365, 345 in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 13029 of 1985 With W.P.C. No. 116 of 2013, 728 of 2015
Decided on : 18-02-2016
For the Petitioners:Harish N. Salve, Sr. Advocate, (A.C.) (NP), Sidhartha Chowdhury, Sr. Advocate, (A.C.), Aparajita Singh, (A.C.), A.D.N. Rao, (A.C.) (Petitioner in person) (Applicant in person) S.N. Terdal, D.N. Goburdhan, Abhishek Agrawal, Lal Ramtiamma, Arti Singh and Pooja Dhar, Advocates.
For the Respondents:Ranjit Kumar, SG, V. Mohna, Sr. Advocate, S.R. Setia, Arvind Datar, Sr. Advocate, Gopal Subramanian, Sr. Advocate, C.S. Vaidyanathaan, Sr. Advocate, Dr. A.M. Singhvi, Sr. Advocate, Shyam Divan, Sr. Advocate, Dr. A.M. Singhvi, Sr. Advocate, Amit Sibal, Sr. Advocate, Dr. J.N. Dubey, Sr. Advocate, K.V. Vishwanathan, Sr. Advocate, C.A. Sundram, Sr. Advocate, Vikas Singh, Sr. Advocate, Anil Grover, Sr. Advocate, H.S. Sandhu, Meenakshi Grover, Mukul Kumar, Kaushal Yadav, Neeraj Kumar Sharma, R. Bala, Ajay Sharma, Abhishek Atrey, Zaid Ali, Binu Tamta, Dhruv Tamta, Nikita Shrivastava, Harpreet Singh, D.S. Mahra, Chirag M. Shroff, Vijay Panjwani, Rakesh Kumar, Anurag Dubey, Anu Sawhney, Meenesh Dubey, Meenakshi Parihar, Anand Pathak, Kunal Chatterji, Amit Kumar Mishra, Akshat Hansaria, Hima Lawrence, Anand Pathak, Nikhil Nayyar, Amit Mishra, Sonal Jain, Udayan Jain, Heena Sharma, Anju Thomas, Gaurav Bhatia, Gaurav Srivastava, Samir Ali Khan, Aditya Narayan Singh, Samir Ali Khan, Vijay Sondhi, Anirpan Bhattacharya, Faisal Serwani, C. Birbal, Harsad Pathak, Avantika, Sujeeta Srivastava, R.N. Karanjawala, Nandini Gore, Sandeep Narain, Siddharth Sharma, Tahira Karanjawala, Trishala Kulkarni, Meghna Mishra, Nakul Sachdeva, Shantanu Agarwal, Dheeraj Deo, Karanjawala & Co., Sudhir Nagar, Kamaldeep Dayal, Ankur Saigal, Mahesh Agarwal, Rishi Agarwal, Rishabh Parikh, E.C. Agrawala, Sandeep Narain, S. Narain & Co., Advocate Anuj Berry, Sourabh Rath, Maneka Khanna, Shardul S. Shroff, Sanjay Kulshreshtha, Pinky Anand, ASG, R. Balasubramanian, Ajay Bansal, Suvesh Kumar, Gaurav Yadav, Praveen Swarup, Samir Jain, Harshvardhan, Anurag Gupta, Rabin Majumder, Ranjit Kumar, SG, T.S. Sidhu, Gunjan S. Jain, Sumit Gupta, Mukesh Kumar, Vikas Soni, M.V. Kini & Associates, K.K. Tyagi, Sarvam Ritam Khare, Shyamal Kumar, Ajay Bansal, AAG, Alok Sangwan, Sanjay Kr. Visen, Satish Kumar, Ranjit Kumar, SG, Bharat Sangal, D.P. Singh, Sonam Gupta, Sanjay Jain and Abhishek Chaudhary, Advocates.
The court has the authority to issue notice in pending applications and specify the composition of the Bench before which a case is to be posted.
Headnote:
Notice - Pending Applications - Summary
Fact of the Case:
The court issued notice in all pending applications and directed the opposite parties to file their responses within one week. Copies of the applications and responses were to be served upon the parties opposite. The case was to be posted again before a Bench of which Hon'ble Mr. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit is not a member.
Finding of the Court:
The court found it necessary to issue notice in the pending applications and directed the opposite parties to respond within a specified timeframe. Additionally, the court specified the procedure for serving copies of the applications and responses and directed the case to be posted before a specific Bench.
Issues: Notice in Pending Applications, Opposite Parties' Responses, Bench Composition
Ratio Decidendi: The court's decision was influenced by the need to ensure that all pending applications were duly considered and responded to, and to specify the composition of the Bench before which the case would be posted.
Final Decision: The court ordered notice to be issued in all pending applications, directed the opposite parties to file their responses within one week, specified the procedure for serving copies, and directed the case to be posted before a Bench of which Hon'ble Mr. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit is not a member.
ORDER :
1. Issue notice in all the pending applications to learned counsel for the opposite parties who shall file their responses within one week. Copies of all the applications and responses shall be served upon the parties opposite.
2. Post again before a Bench of which Hon'ble Mr. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit is not a member.
