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2020 Supreme(SC) 508

ASHOK BHUSHAN, R. SUBHASH REDDY, M. R. SHAH
PRANEETH K – Appellant
Versus
UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION (UGC) – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the petitioner(s): Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sr. Adv.
(746/20) : Mr. Dhruv Mehta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Raj Kamal, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kr. Dubey, Adv. Mr. Aavishkar Singhvi, Adv. Mr. Malak Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Aseem Atwal, Adv. Mr. Kartavya Batra, Adv. Mr. Sanpreet Singh Ajmani, Adv.
724/20 :Mr. Alakh Alok Srivastava, Advocate-On-Record Ms. Anubha Shrivastava Sahai, Advocate
D No. 15056/20 : Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Ms. Neela Gokhale, Adv. Ms. Anannya Ghosh, AOR
739/20: Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Samiksha Godiyal, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Ranjan, Adv. Ms. Pratyushi Mehta, Adv Mr. Pranaya Goyal, AOR
West Bengal : Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv Mr. Raghunath Chakaraborty, Adv Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv Mr. Pravar Veer Misra,Adv.
745/20 : Mr. Kishor Lambat, Adv. For M/S. Lambat And Associates
IA 71016/20 : Mr. Shivankar Sharma ,Adv
IA 71023/20 : Talha Abdul Rahman, AOR Mr. Kushagra Pandey, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Shaz Khan, Adv Mr. Udit Atul Konkanthankar, Adv
861&862/20 : Mr. P.S. Narasimha, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pulkit Tare, Adv.
794/2020 :Petitioner-in-person
814/2020 :Mr. Vinay Navare, Senior Advocate Dr. Uday Prakash Warunjikar, Advocate Mr. Abhay Anil Anturkar, Adv Mr. C. George Thomas, AOR Mr. Surendra Kumar Gangele, Adv. Ms. Ritu Gangele, Adv. Ms. Swagoti Batchas, Adv. Mr. SPM Tripathi, Adv. Mr. V.K. Shukla, Adv. Mr. Satish Kumar, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. Apoorv Kurup, AOR Mr. G.S. Makker, AOR Ms. Nidhi Mittal, Adv. Mr Siddharth Nigotia, Adv. Ms. Upama Bhattacharjee, Adv. Mr. S.V. Raju, ASG Mr. Manan Popli, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. B.V. Balaram Das, Adv.
739/20 :Mr. Vinay Navare, Senior Advocate Dr. Uday Prakash Warunjikar, Advocate, Mr. Abhay Anil Anturkar, Adv Dr. R. R. Deshpande, AOR For M/S. Dr. R.R. Deshpande And Associates
GNCTD :Mr. K.V. Vishwanathan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, Advocate Ms. Sanjana Nangia, Advocate Ms. Abhilasha Bharti, Advocate
Maharashtra : Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rahul Chitnis, ADV Mr. Sachin Patil, AOR Mr. Geo Joseph, Adv.
Odisha : Mr. Ashok Parija, Adv. Gen Mr. Shibashish Misra, Adv.
W.B.(R4) : Mr. Kishore Dutta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vikas Mehta, AOR Mr. Vikram Mehta, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Basu, Adv Mr. Apoorv Khator, Adv Ms. Mansaa Shukla, Adv. Mr. Namit Saxena, AOR Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR
70207&208 : Mr. Amir Singh Pasrich, Adv. Ms. Meera Mathur, AOR
IA 70613 :Mr. Akash Sinha (Advocate) Mr. Shubham Saket, Advocate Mr. G. Priyadharshni, Adv. For Mr. Rahul Shyam Bhandari AOR
68164 : Mr. Yashodeep Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Akshay Kapadia, Adv. Mr. Priank Adhyaru, Adv. Dr. Balram Jain, Adv. Mr. R.P. Goyal, Adv.
70364 :Mr. Mihir Desai, Senior Advocate
MFUCTO : Ms. Rukhsana Choudhury, AOR
Maharashtra Students Union : Mr. Jamshed Mistry, Adv., Ms. Mohini Priya, AOR
IA 71205/20 : Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv.
In WP 739/20 : Mr. Sahil Lal, Adv., Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, AOR
IA 77444 & 77445 : Mr. Sanjay Hegde, Sr. Adv. Mr. Bharat T. Manubarwala, AOR Pranjal Kishore, Adv. Mr. Sarvagnya Trivedi Manubarwala, Adv. Mr. Varun Varma, Adv. Ms. Nistha Gupta, Adv. Ms. Rukhsana Choudhury, AOR Ms. Meera Mathur, AOR Dr. R. R. Deshpande, AOR Mr. Vikas Mehta, AOR Mr. Rahul Shyam Bhandari, AOR Ms. Harsh Lata, AOR Mr. Talha Abdul Rahman, AOR Mr. Bharat Thakorlal Manubarwala, AOR Mr. Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, AOR Mr. B. V. Balaram Das, AOR Mr. Anish R. Shah, AOR Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Ms. Mohini Priya, AOR Ms. Harsh Lata, Adv. Mr. Sagar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Deepak Mehta, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

ASHOK BHUSHAN, J.

This batch of cases consisting of writ petitions (except one Special Leave Petition, i.e., SLP (C) D. No.15056 of 2020) filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India can be divided into two broad groups. First group of writ petitions consists of petitions filed by students, youth organisations and the teachers associations challenging the guidelines issued by University Grants Commission (hereinafter referred to as “UGC”) dated 06.07.2020, O.M. dated 06.07.2020 issued by Ministry of Human Resource Development and letter dated 06.07.2020 issued by Ministry of Home Affairs whereby all the Universities and Colleges across the country had been directed to conduct terminal semester/final year examinations by 30.09.2020. A further relief has been sought directing the respondents to declare the results of the students of the final year/terminal semester examinations of all universities/institutions of the country on the basis of their past performance/internal assessment and to award marksheets and degrees. The second group of writ petitions are the writ petitions filed by the students challenging the decision of the State Disaster Management Authority as

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