Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Amicus Curiae
For the Respondent: Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR, Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR, Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv, Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv., Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR, Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv., Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR, Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR, Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, Adv., Ms. Devyani Bhatt, Adv., Ms. Neha Singh, Adv., Mr. Surjendu Sankar Das, AOR, Mr. B.K. Satija, A.A.G. Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AOR, Mr. Keshav Mittal, Adv., Mr. Fateh Singh, Adv., Mr. Parth Awasthi, Adv., Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR, Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR, Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR, Ms. Meena K Poulose, Adv., Ms. Mrinal Gopal Elker, AOR, Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Adv., Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv., Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv., Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR, Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR, Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv., Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv., Mr. Amit Kumar, Ag, Sr. Adv., Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR, Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv., Mr. Daniel Lyngdoh, Adv., Mr. Siddhesh Shirish Kotwal, AOR, Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR, Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv., Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv., Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv., Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv., Mr. Karan Sharma, AOR, Mr. Mohit Siwach, Adv., Mr. Abhishek Budhiraja, Adv., Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR, Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G. Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, Adv., Ms. Shalini Singh, Adv., Mr. Saurabh Rajpal, Adv., Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR, Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, Sr. A.A.G. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR, Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv., Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv., Mr. C Kranthi Kumar, Adv., Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv., Ms. Saushria Havelia, Adv., Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv., Mr. Siddharth Sangal, AOR, Ms. Garima Prasad, Sr. A.A.G. Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR, Mr. Suraj Singh, Adv., Mr. Anand Grover, Sr. Adv., Mr. Srisatya Mohanty, Adv., Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR, Mr. Shreyas Awasthi, Adv., Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv., Mrs. Aishwariya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. R Bala, Sr. Adv., Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR, Mrs. Suhasini Sen, Adv., Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv., Mrs. Shagun Thakur, Adv., Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, Adv., Mrs. Neelakshi Bhadouria, Adv., Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR, Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G. Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, Adv., Ms. Shalini Singh, Adv., Mr. Saurabh Rajpal, Adv., Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR, Mr. Pranjal Sharma, Adv., Mr. Kashif Irshad Khan, Adv., Mr. Abhimanyu Jhamba, Adv., Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR, Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR, Ms. Yashmita Pandey, Adv., Mr. Chandra Prakash, AOR, Mr. Rajendra Sahu, AOR, Mr. Rishabh Sahu, Adv., Mr. Rajendra Sahu, Adv., Ms. Hema Sahu, Adv., Mr. C L Sahu, Adv., Mr. Salvador Santosh Rebello, AOR, Mr. Raghav Sharma, Adv., Ms. Kritika, Adv., Mr. Jaskirat Pal Singh, Adv., Ms. Pooja Gill, Adv., Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR, Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv., Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR, Mr. Shantanu Sagar, AOR, Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv., Mr. Gunjesh Ranjan, Adv., Ms. Tara Chauhan, Adv., Mr. Manoneet Dwivedi, Adv., Mr. Sudarshan Singh Rawat, AOR, Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv., Ms. Saakshi Singh Rawat, Adv., Mr. Sunny Sachin Rawat, Adv., Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR, Mr. R Venkataramani, Attorney General for India Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. R Bala, Sr. Adv., Mrs. Suhashini Sen, Adv., Mr. Ashok Panigrahi, Adv., Mr. B K Satija, Adv., Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv., Mr. Kartikay Agrawal, Adv., Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv., Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv., Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv., Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv., Ms. Ameyavikrama Thanvi, Adv., Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR, Mr. Anuj Bhandari, AOR, Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR, Mr. Aakash Thakur, Adv., Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv., Mr. Aryan Srivastava, Adv., Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR, Mrs. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. R. Bala, Adv., Mrs. Suhasini Sen, Adv., Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, Adv., Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv., Mr. Sarthak Karol, Adv., Mr. Ameyvikrama Thanvi, Adv., Mrs. Aishwariya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. R Bala, Sr. Adv., Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR, Mrs. Suhasini Sen, Adv., Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv., Mrs. Shagun Thakur, Adv., Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, Adv., Mrs. Neelakshi Bhadouria, Adv., Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR, Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv., Mr. Samarth Krishan Luthra, Adv., Mr. Durgesh Ramchandra Gupta, AOR, Mr. Abhishek Pandey, Adv., Mr. Prashant Kumar Umrao, AOR, Mr. K. M. Nataraj, A.S.G. Mrs. Indira Bhakar, Adv., Mrs. Mrinal Elkar Mazumdar, Adv., Mr. Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Adv., Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv., Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv., Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv., Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv., Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv., Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv., Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv., Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR, Mr. Prashant Singh, AOR, Ms. Devina Sehgal, AOR, Ms. Pallavi Langar, AOR, Mr. Kartikeya Rastogi, Adv., Mr. Inderdeep Kaur Raina, Adv., Mr. Aravindh S., Adv., Mr. Akshay Gupta, Adv., Mr. Abbas B., Adv.