2019 Supreme(SC) 851
RANJAN GOGOI, ROHINTON FALI NARIMAN
ASSAM PUBLIC WORKS – Appellant
Versus
UNION OF INDIA – Respondent
Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Mr. Kailash Prashad Pandey, AOR Ms. Shefali Sethi, Adv.
For the Respondents/ Applicants Union of India: Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Ms. Binu Tamta, Adv. Ms. Rekha Pandey, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR Mr. B.V. Balaram Das, AOR
State of Assam : Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Sataroop Das, Adv. Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv. Mr. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, AOR Mr. Mushtafa Khaddam Hussain, Adv. Mr. Ibad Mushtaq, Adv. Ms. Aditi Gupta, Adv. Ms. Tehsina, Adv. Ms. Shabeena Anjum, Adv. Ms. Lubna Naz, Adv. Ms. Kunika, Adv.
For I.A. No. 116964/2019 : Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv. Mr. Somesh Chandra Jha, AOR
For I.A. No. 117074/2019 : Mr. C.U. Singh, Sr. Adv. Ms. Aparna Bhat, AOR Ms. Karishma Maria, Adv.
For the Intervenor (Jamiat Ulema E Hind Assam) : Mr. B.H. Marlapalle, Sr. Adv. Mr. A.S. Tapadar, Adv. Mr. Ajit Wagh, Adv. Mr. Mansoor Ali, AOR Ms. Rubina Jawed, Adv.
for intervenor : Mr. Vinay Navare, Sr. Adv. Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR
State of Assam : Ms. Diksha Rai, Adv. Ms. Palak Mahajan, Adv.
State of Mizoram : Mr. Siddhesh Kotwal, Adv. Ms. Bansuri Swaraj, Adv. Ms. Arshiya Ghose, Adv. Mr. Divyansh Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Shourajeet Chakravarty, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv. (AOR) Mr. Amlan Kumar Ghosh, Adv. (AOR)
I.A. Nos. 114807/2019 & 114814/2019 : Ms. Jayshree Satpute, Adv. Mr. Mohit Chaudhary, AOR Ms. Tripti Poddar, Adv.
For All Assam Students Union : Ms. Malvika Trivedi, Adv. Mr. Ankit Yadav, Adv. Mr. T. Mahipal, AOR
For impleader Gauhati HC : Ms. Sneha Kalita, AOR Ms. Jissy Kurian, Adv. Mr. S. Ahmed, Adv.
For impleader Ms. Arna Das, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Dhingra, AOR Mr. M.C. Dhingra, Adv. Ms. Indira K., Adv. Mr. Krishna Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mritunjay Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Mohan Pandey, AOR
For State of A.P. : Mr. G.N. Reddy, Adv. (AOR) Ms. Sujatha Bagadhi, Adv. Mr. T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv. Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, AOR Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR Mr. Snehasish Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, AOR Mr. Sanand Ramakrishnan, AOR Mr. Avijit Roy, AOR Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR M/s. Corporate Law Group, AOR
ORDER
RANJAN GOGOI, CJI.
1. In our order dated 23rd July, 2019 we had extracted paragraphs 7 and 8 of the Report of Shri Prateek Hajela, learned State Coordinator dated 10th July, 2019. After setting out the contents of aforesaid two paragraphs of the Report dated 10th July, 2019 we had deemed it appropriate to direct the learned State Coordinator to issue a public notice to enable all stake-holders to appear before this Court, in a representative capacity, to contest the prayers made by the learned State Coordinator in the aforesaid two paragraphs of the Report dated 10th July, 2019, if so desired. The said two paragraphs read as follows:
“7. Another matter which the undersigned wishes to bring to the kind attention is about such cases of descendants of D Voter (DV)/ Declared Foreigner (DF)/Cases Pending at Foreigners Tribunals/Other Courts (PFT), whose one parent is DV/DF/PFT but the parent from whom the legacy is drawn for inclusion in NRC is not WP(C) 274/2009 4 DV/DF/PFT and is also found eligible for inclusion in NRC. The Hon’ble Supreme Court in their order of 2 July 2018 have ordered that those persons who are DVs or PFTs as well as their descendants are not to be included
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