Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aftab Ali Khan, AOR Mr. Bahar. U. Barqui, Adv. Mr. Nizam Pasha, Adv. Ms. Aparjita Jamwal, Adv. Mr. Ali Safeer Farooqi, Adv. 1 Ms. Rupali Samuels, Adv. Ms. Sumedha Ray Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Rishabh Parikh, Adv. Mr. Z. K. Faizan, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Taiyub Khan, Adv. Mr. Shahid Hussain Rizvi, Adv. Mr. Mansoor Alir, Adv. Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Sr. Adv. Mr. N Sai Vinod, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Vasudev, Adv. Ms. Gayatri Gulati, Adv. Mrs. Gayatri Gulati, Adv. Mr. Naveen Hegde, Adv. Mr. T. V. S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Mr. Debadutta Kanungo, Adv. Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR Mr. Govind Jee, AOR Mr. Omanakuttan K K, Adv. Mr. Akhilesh Kumar Mishra, Adv. Ms. Rambha Singh, Adv. Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Ramesh Kumar Mishra, AOR Mr. Shadan Farasat, Sr. Adv. Ms. Sanchita Ain, AOR Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Harshit Anand, Adv. Mr. Aman Naqvi, Adv. Mr. Shadab Azhar, Adv. By Courts Motion
For the Respondent(s): Mr. R. Venkataramani, Attorney General for India Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G. Mr. K.M. Natraraj, A.S.G. Mr. Kartikay Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Madhav Sinhal, Adv. Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Adv. Ms. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. 2 Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Mr. Rohit Khare, Adv. Mr. Apporv Kurup, Adv. Mr. Diwakar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Siddhartha Sinha, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Ms. Aastha Singh, Adv. Mr. Aman Mehta, Adv. Mr. Rohit Khare, Adv. Mr. Tanmay Mehta, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv. Mr. Guru Krishnakumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar, Adv. Mr. VVV Pattabhiram, Adv. Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv. Mr. Praneet Pranav, Adv. Mr. Tadimalla Bhaskar Gowtham, Adv. Mr. Subodh Patil, Adv. Ms. Srishti Mishra, Adv. Mr. Alabhya Dhamija, Adv. Mr. Pashupati Razdan, Adv. Mr. Vikas Chandra Shukla, Adv. Ms. Aditi Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Eklavya Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Sanskriti Pathak, Adv. Mr. Merusagar Samanatray, Adv. Mr. Aditiya Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Bhakti Vardhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Aman Jha, Adv. Mr. Atulesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Sharma, Adv. Mr. Aditya Kashyap, Adv. Mr. Shubhendu Anand, Adv. Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mahapatra, Adv. Mr. Baijnath Patel, Adv. Ms. Sneh Lata Mishra, Adv. Ms. Himadri Haksar, Adv. Mr. Narayan Dev Prashar, Adv. Ms. Sucheta Joshi, Adv. Mr. Prakash Gautam, Adv. Mr. Raghav Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv. Mr. Sanyat Lodha, Adv. Mr. Rishi Tutu, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Singh, Adv. Mr. Toshiv Goyal, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Harnirmal Singh, Adv. Mr. Baij Nath Patel, Adv. Mr. R. C. Kohli, AOR Mr. Avnish Dave, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Vinay Navare, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sridhar Potaraju, Sr. Adv. Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, Sr. AdvAdv. Shuchi Singh, AOR Mr. D. Bharat Kumar, Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar, Adv. Mr. T. Bhaskar Gowtham, Adv. Ms. Sindoora V.N.L, Adv. Ms. Shriya Gilhotra, Adv. Mr. Gautam Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Sharma, Adv. Ms. Ankita Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Kumar Prashant, Adv. Ms. Rashmi Singhania, Adv. Mr. Aditya Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv. Mr. Rajan Chaurasia, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Ayush Anand, Adv. Mr. Baij Nath Patel, Adv. Ms. Alpana Sharma, Adv. Mr. Pravartak Pathak, Adv. Mr. Ranjeet Mishra, Adv. Ms. Bharti Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Pramod Kumar Vishnoi, Adv. Mr. Akshat Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Thakur, Adv. Mr. Shaswat Nath, Adv. Mr. Shespal Sai, Adv. Mr. Gopal Jha, Adv. Mr. Sayooj Mohandas, Adv. Mr. Govind Kumar, Adv. Mr. Alabhya Dhamija, Adv. Mr. Nisarg Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Ankita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Gobind Kumar, Adv. Mr. Hrishikesh Haridas, Adv. Mr. Aishvary Vikram, Adv. Mr. Sanyat Lodha, Adv. Mr. Pulkit Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv. Mr. Raghav Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Prakash Gautam, Adv. Mr. Anjuman Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Singh, Adv. Ms. Ranjana Singh, Adv. Mr. Devendra Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Jainendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aman Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Anshuman Siddharth Nayak, Adv. Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv. Mrs. Naghma Imtiaz, Adv. Mr. Shaikh Imran, Adv. Mr. Irshad Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Mansoor Ali, Adv. Mrs. Rubina Javed, Adv. Mrs. Seema Khan, Adv. Mr. Tanveer Khan, Adv. Mr. Syed Imtiaz Ali, Adv. Mrs. Azra Rehman, Adv. Mrs. Sommya Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Ahmed Zargham, Adv. Mr. Saif Naseem, Adv. Mr. Md. Sarfaraz, Adv. M/S. Equity Lex Associates, AOR Mr. Prem Prakash, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, AOR Mr. Saif Zia, Adv. Mr. T. V. S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR Ms. Gayatri Gulati, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Vivek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Kumar Tewari, Adv. Mr. Devendra Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Pratyush Prakash, Adv. Mr. Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Isha Singh, Adv. Ms. Snehil Sonam, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Arun Kanwa, Adv. Mr. Vignesh Singh, Adv. Mr. Ajay Awasthi, Adv. Mr. V. Sai Shashank, Adv. Mr. Rahul Bhaskar, Adv. Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv. Mr. Bhakti Vardhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Rahul G. Tanwani, Adv. Mr. Aman Jha, Adv. Mr. Sudipto Sircar, Adv. Ms. Sindhoora Vnl, Adv. Mr. Mohit Pandey, Adv. Ms. Ankita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Yashraj Bundela, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv. Ms. Bhavya Tyagi, Adv. Ms. Astha Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Aviral Saxena, Adv. Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR Mr. Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Y. Lokesh, Adv. Mr. V. Kandha Prabhu, Adv. Mr. Maitri Goal, Adv. Mr. G. Karthikeyan, Adv. Mr. Anubhav Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Sachin Kumar Verma, Adv. Mr. Arun Singh, Adv. Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Mr. Syed Mehdi Imam, AOR Mr. Mohd Parvez Dabas, Adv. Mr. Uzmi Jamil Husain, Adv. Mr. Mohd Noorullah, Adv. Mr. Atif Suhrawardy, Adv. Mr. Tabrez Ahmad, Adv. Mr. Tashriq Ahmad, Adv. Mr. Attarup Bannerjee, Adv. Mr. Sunando Raha, Adv. Mr. Pulkit Agarwal, AOR Mr. Abu Sohel, Adv. Mr. Ankur Parihar, Adv. Ms. Sampriti Baksi, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sudhanshu Kaushesh, Adv. Mr. Vibhu Tandon, Adv. Mr. Avnish Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Shreyans Raniwala, Adv. Mr. Ansar Ahmad Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Palav Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Ananya Chaurasia, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Singh, Adv. Mr. Md Tasnimul Hassan, Adv. Mr. Zahid Ali, Adv. Mr. Anagh Misra, Adv. Mr. Suvidh Kulkarni, Adv. Mr. Md Anas Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Anubhav Lamba, Adv. Mr. Vivek Sharma, AOR Dr. Vijay Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Yatindra Singh, Sr. Adv. Ms. Awantika Manohar, AOR Mr. Prakash Gautam, Adv. Mr. Tanvir Zaki, Adv. Ms. Parul Dhurvey, Adv Mr. Nilesh Sharma, Adv.