2018 Supreme(SC) 1715
A.K.SIKRI, ASHOK BHUSHAN
Arjun Gopal – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent
Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Ms. Pooja Dhar, Ms. Aishwarya Kane, Ms. Gayatri Verma, Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv
For the Respondent: M/S. Corporate Law Group, Mr. A.N.S. Nadkarni, Mr. Ajit Kumar Sinha, Ms. Kiran Bhardwaj, Mr. Ritesh Kumar, Mr. S.W.A. Quadri, Mr. Arun Kumar Yadav, Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Mr. Amit Sharma, Mr. G.S. Makker, Mr. B.V. Balram Das, Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, Mr. Maninder Singh, Mr. Dhruv Mehta, Mr. Sachin Mittal, Mr. Sagar Kothari, Ms. Ashita Chawla, Mr. Ranjit Kumar, Mr. Yoginder Handoo, Mr. Shekhar Naphade, Mr. Vijay Narayan, Mr. B. Vinodh Kanna, Mr. A. Sriram, Mr. Abikalp Pratap, Mr. R. Venkataramani, Mr. V.G. Pragasam, Mr. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Mr. S. Manuraj, Mr. Praveen Vignesh, Mr. Rajiv Dutta, Mr. M.A. Chinnasamy, C. Rubavathi, Mr. S. Peer Mohammad, Mr. P. Raja Ram, Mr. V. Senthil Kumar, Mr. K. Ethiraj, Mr. S. Nagamuthu, Mr. M.P. Parthiban, Mr. Anish R. Shah, Mr. Bijender Singh Chowdhry, Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Mr. S.K. Rajora, Mr. Fuzail Ahmed Ayyubi, Mr. Abdul Qaudir, Ms. Aditi Gupta, Mr. Ibad Mushtaq, Mr. Prakash Gautam, Mr. Ankit Pandey, Mr. Shashank Shekhar Singh, Mrs. Sarla Chandra, Mr. Vijay Panjwani, Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, Ms. Neha Sangwan, Mr. Joyshree Barman, Mr. R. Venkataraman, Mr. Manoj Selvaraj, Mr. B. Ramaswamy, Ms. S. Aswathi. M.K., Mr. Anil Grover, Mr. Shivam Kumar, Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, Ms. Garima Bajaj, Mr. Aakansha Kaul, Ms. Rohini Musa, Mrs. V. D. Khanna, Mr. Ashok Kumar Gupta II, Mr. Suvidutt M.s., Mr. Mohinder Jit Singh, Mr. S. K. Verma, Mr. Yugandhara Pawar Jha, Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Ms. Uttara Babbar
ORDER :
I.A. No. 155816/2018
1. Respondent No.7/applicant in this application has sought clarification in respect of direction No.(xv) in our judgment dated 23.10.2018. It is particularly in respect of the following portion of the said direction:
“(xv)..................insofar as the other States are concerned, an endeavor shall be made by them also to explore the feasibility of community fire-cracking. However, it is made clear that Direction No. (xiv) pertaining to the duration within which fireworks can take place on such occasions would be applicable throughout India.Similarly, Direction No. (xiii) for extensive public awareness campaigns is also a pan India direction.”
2. In direction No. (xv) it is stated that insofar as Government of NCT of Delhi and the State Governments of the NCR areas are concerned, the respective governments would permit community fire-cracking wherever it is possible. In respect of other States it is mentioned that an endeavour in that respect shall also be made by those States to explore the feasibility of community fire-cracking. Direction No. (xiv) is about the duration in which there can be fireworks i.e. 08:00 p.m till 10:00 p.m. In the aforesaid por
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