Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv., Mr. P. K. Manohar, Adv., Mr. Raj Panjwani, Sr. Adv., Ms. Purnima Bhat,Adv., Mr. Pati Raj Yadav, Adv., Mr. Avtar Singh Chauhan, Adv.
For the Wildlife Trust :Mr. Naveen Sharma, Adv., Mr. Saurabh Mishra, Adv., Mr. Shreekant N. Terdal,Adv., Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh,Adv.(NP), Mr. D. Mahesh Babu,Adv., Mrs. Revathy Raghavan,Adv., Mr. Balaji Srinivasan,Adv., Mr. Shibashish Misra,Adv., For the Respondent(UOI): Mr. P.S. Narsimha, ASG, Mr. K. Radhakrishnan, Sr. Adv., Ms. Kiran Suri, Sr. Adv., Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, Adv., Mr. Adarsh Kumar Tiwari, Adv., Mr. K. Parmeshwar, Adv., Mr. T. Gopal, Adv., Ms. Gunwant Dara, Adv., Mr. Harish Krishnan, Adv., Mr. S.N. Terdal, Adv., Mr. Wasim A. Qadri, Adv., Mr. K.L. Janjani, Adv., Mr. Zaid Ali, Adv., Mr. Ashok Panigrahi, Adv., Mr. Surajit Bhaduri, Adv., Mr. Santosh Kumar, Adv., Mr. D.S. Mahra, Adv., Ms. Shomona Khanna, Adv., Mr. Neeraj K. Sharma, Adv.,
For the State of Punjab : Mr. Saurabh Ajay Gupta, Adv., Mr. Nishant Bishnoi, Adv., Ms. A. Subhashini, Adv.,
For the State of Chattisgarh : Mr. C.D. Singh, Adv., Mr. Sandeepan Pathak, Adv.
For the State of Manipur : Mr. Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Adv., Ms. Linthoingambi Thongam, Adv., Mr. B. Kaushbansi, Adv., Mr. Ashok Kr. Singh, Adv., Mr. Z.H. Issac Haiding, Adv.,
For the State of Odisha : Mr. Pawan Upadhyay, Adv., Mr. Sarvjit Pratap Singh, Adv.
For the State of Meghalaya : Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, Adv.
For the State of HP : Mr. Suryanarayana Singh, Ms. Pragati Neekhra, Adv.
For the State of Tripura/ Bihar : Mr. Gopal Singh, Adv., Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv., Ms. Varsha Poddar, Adv., Mr. Shreyas Jain, Adv.
For the State of Uttarakhand : Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv., Mr. J.K. Bhatia, Adv.
For the State of Gujarat : Ms. Hemantika Wahi, Adv., Ms. Jesal Wahi, Adv., Ms. Puja Singh, Adv., Ms. Vinakshi Kadan, Adv.
For the State of Arunachal Pradesh : Mr. Anil Shrivastav, Adv., Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv.
For the A&N Administration : Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv., Ms. G. Indira, Adv.
For the State of MP : Mr. Naveen Sharma, Adv., Mr. Arjun Garg, Adv., Mr. Mishra Saurabh, Adv.
For the State of Nagaland : Mr. Edward Belho, Adv., Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv., Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.
For the State of J&K : Mr. Sunil Fernandes, Adv.
For the State of Chhatisgarh : Mr. Atul Jha, Adv., Mr. Sandeep Jha, Adv., Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, Adv.
For the State of Tamil Nadu : Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv., Mr. Subramonium Prasad, Sr. Adv., AAG, Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, Adv., Mr. Jayant Patel, Adv.
For the State of Telangana : Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Adv., Mr. Krishna Kumar Singh, Adv.
For the State of Jharkhand : Mr. Anil Kumar Jha, Mr. R.K. Ojha, Adv.
For the Govt. of Puducherry : Mr. V.G. Pragasam, Mr. Prabu ramasubramanian, Adv.
For the State of AP : Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, Adv., Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv.
For the State of Haryana : Mr. Anil Grover, AAG, Mr. Sanjay Kr. Visen, Adv.
For the State of Assam : Ms. Apeksha Sharan, Adv., Mr. Navneet Kumar, Adv., M/s.Corporate Law Group
For the State of Sikkim : Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv., Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv., M/s.Arputham Aruna & Co., Mr. C.D. Singh, Adv., Ms. Sakshi Kakkar, Adv.
For the State of Goa : Mr. Anshuman Srivastava, Adv., Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Adv., Mr. Sidharth Mohan, Adv., Ms. Garima Tiwari, Adv., Mr. T. Mahipal, Adv.
For the State of Rajasthan : Mr. S.S. Shamshery, AAG, Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv., Mr. Ishu Prayas, Adv., Ms. S. Spandana Reddy, Adv., Mr. Milind Kumar, Adv., Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv.,
For the State of Karnataka : Ms. Anitha Shenoy, Adv., Ms. Maitreyee Mishra, Adv., Mr. S. Ravi Shankar, Adv., Ms. Yashita Dalmia, Adv., Ms. Yamunah Nachiar, Adv., Mr. Tara Chandra Sharma, Adv., Mr. Aruneshwar Gupta, Adv., Mr. G. Prakash, Adv., Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, Adv., Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, Adv., Mr. Anil Kumar Jha, Adv., Mr. B. S. Banthia, Adv., Mr. Khwairakpam Nobin Singh, Adv., Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, Adv., Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, Adv., Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, Adv., Mr. Shibashish Misra, Adv., Mr. T. V. George, Adv., Mr. Ajay Pal,Adv., Mr. Annam D. N. Rao,Adv., Mr. P.K. Manohar, Adv., Ms. C.K. Sucharita, Adv., Mr. V.G. Pragasam, Adv., Mr. Jayant Mohan, Adv., Mr. Kuldip Singh, Adv., Ms. Sharmila Upadhyay, Adv., Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Adv., Mr. Radha Shyam Jena, Adv.