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2025 Supreme(SC) 1672

VIKRAM NATH, SANDEEP MEHTA
Reena Banerjee – Appellant
Versus
Government of NCT of Delhi – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manik Gupta, Adv. Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Ms. Manali Singhal, Adv. Mr. Santosh Sachin, Adv. Ms. Shreya Singhal, Adv. Ms. Aanchal Kapur, Adv. Mr. Deepak Singh Rawat, Adv. Mr. Tejasvi Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ambar Qamaruddin, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Prashant Kumar, AOR Mr. D. S. Mahra, AOR Mr. Gulshan Kumar Bajwa, AOR Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR Ms. Meenakshi S. Kamble, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Adv. Ms./Mr. Mahi Pal Singh, Adv. Mr. Varun Varma, Adv. Ms. Manisha Chawla, Adv. Mr. Zawed Raza, Adv. Ms. Kanchan Kumari, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, AOR Ms. S. Pathak, AAG Mr. Aman Prasad, Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. Raju Sonkar, Adv. Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR Mr. Manvinder Singh, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Ms. Niharika Dewivedi, Adv. Ms. Charan Jeet Sidhu, Adv. Ms. Yamini Sharma, Adv. Mr. T. V. George, AOR Ms. Rajkumari Banju, AOR Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Shree Pal Singh, AOR Mr. Abhishek Chaudhary, AOR Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Ms. Meena K Poulose, Adv. Ms. Bharti Tyagi, AOR Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, AOR Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., AOR Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv. Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Ms. Diksha Rai, AOR Mr. Piyush Vyas, Adv. Ms. Purvat Wali, Adv. Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Raghavendra M. Kulkarni, Adv. Mr. Venkata Raghu Mannepalli, Adv. Mr. Prakash Jadhav, Adv. Ms. G. Indira, AOR Mr. P Gandepan, Adv. Mr. Ashwini Kumar, Adv. Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Ms. Priyal Sheth, Adv. Ms. Rajani Ohri Lal, AOR Mr. Manoj Ranjan Sinha, Adv. Mr. Vishal Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Mr. Anuvrat Sharma, AOR Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G. (Not Present) Mr. R.R.Rajesh, Adv. Ms. Sunita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amit Sharma-b, Adv. Ms.Rekha Pandey, Adv.(V.C.) Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv. Dr. N. Visakamurthy, AOR Mr. M.K. Maroria, AOR Ms. Sharmila Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Sarvjit Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR Mr. G. Prakash, AOR Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv. Ms. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv. Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv. Ms. Mrinal Elkar Mazumdar, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. K. V. Mohan, AOR Mr. Anil Shrivastav, AOR Mr. Anil Shrivastav, A.A.G. Ms. Avni Shrivastav, Adv. M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr. R. Sathish, AOR Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR M/S. K J John And Co, AOR Ms. Diva Singh, Adv. Mr. Devendra Singh, AOR Mr. Avinash Poddar, Adv. Mr. Ankit, Adv. Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G.(Not Present) Mr. Aaditya Dixit, Adv. Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. Satish Vig, AOR Mrs. D. Bharathi Reddy, AOR Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv. Mr. P.S. Negi, Adv. Mr. T.k. Nayak, Adv. Mr. Aditya S. Pandey, Adv. Mr. Aditya Kumar, Adv. Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, AOR Ms. Anubha Dhulia, Adv. Ms. Ankeeta Appanna, Adv. Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Surjendu Sankar Das, AOR Ms. Aarushi Singh, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Raizada Ga, Adv. Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, AOR Mr. Shashank Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Siddhant Sharma, AOR Ms. Osheen Bhat, Adv. Mr. Kunal Mimani, AOR Mr. Abhinav Rana, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sagar, AOR Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gunjesh Ranjan, Adv. Mrs. Divya Mishra, Adv. Mr. Ashish K Singh, Adv. Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, AOR Ms. Drishti Rawal, Adv. Ms. Drishti Saraf, Adv. Ms. Pragya Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Suveni Bhagat, AOR Ms. Rachna Gandhi, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Shankar Jain, AOR Mr. Tanmaya Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Wrick Chatterjee, Adv. Ms. Aditi Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Sravan Kumar Karanam, AOR Mr. Abhiram Bannur, Adv. Mr. Pusa Mallesh, Adv. Mr. Tanmaya Agarwal, AOR Mr. Wrick Chatterjee, Adv. Mrs. Aditi Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aakash Thakur, Adv. Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Karan Sharma, AOR Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Ms. Aswathi M.k., AOR Mr. T. R. B. Sivakumar, AOR Mr. K. V. Vijayakumar, AOR Mr. Sahil Bhalaik, AOR Mr. Tushar Giri, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Anil Khanna, Adv. Mr. Ritik Arora, Adv. Mr. Shivam Mishra, Adv. Mr. Gowtham Polanki, Adv. Mr. Sewa Singh, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv. Ms. Pooja Singh, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR Ms. Meenakshi Chatterjee, Adv. Ms. Adya Shree Dutta, Adv. Mr. Vikramjeet Banerjee, A.S.G.(Not Present) Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Ms. Sunanda Shukla, Adv. Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Alok Sangwan, AAG Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AOR Mr. Sumit Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Rajat Sangwan, Adv. Mr. Shikhar Narwal, Adv. Mr./Ms. S. Som, Adv. Mr. Aman Dev Sharma, Adv. Mr. Fateh Singh, Adv. Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Abbas B, Adv. Mr. Aman Gautam, Adv. Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR Mr. Kumar Saurav, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR Mr. Kumar Saurav, Adv. Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G. Ms. Shalini Singh, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, AOR Mr. Sahil Bhalaik, AOR Mr. Tushar Giri, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Anil Khanna, Adv. Mr. Ritik Arora, Adv. Mr. Shivam Mishra, Adv. Mr. Gowtham Polanki, Adv. Mr. Sewa Singh, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Srivastava, A.A.G. Ms. Sugandha Anand, AOR Mr. Bhargava Ravikumar, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Mr. Rushab Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Ms. G. Indira, AOR Mr. P Gandepan, Adv. Mr. Ashwini Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv. Ms. Pooja Singh, Adv. Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Abbas B, Adv. Mr. Aman Gautam, Adv. Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Ms. Priyal Sheth, Adv. Ms. Ankita Sharma, AOR Mr. Arjun D. Singh, Adv. Ms. Aswathi M.k., AOR Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Mr. Shree Pal Singh, AOR Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv. (V.C.) Ms. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv. Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv. Ms. Mrinal Elkar Mazumdar, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Adv. Mr. Vineet Singh,Adv. Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. T. R. B. Sivakumar, AOR Mr. Tanmaya Agarwal, AOR Mr. Wrick Chatterjee, Adv. Mrs. Aditi Agarwal, Adv.

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Table of Content
1. disability as a fundamental aspect of diversity (Para 1 , 2 , 3)
2. judicial responsibility to ensure equality (Para 4 , 5 , 6)
3. litigation history and statutory framework (Para 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11)
4. institutional care failures addressed in court (Para 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16)
5. recommendations for care of persons with disabilities (Para 18 , 19 , 20)
6. rights-based reforms needed for disability care (Para 21 , 22)
7. international legal framework on disability (Para 25 , 26 , 27)
8. evolution of disability rights in india (Para 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32)
9. scope of judicial interpretation in disability rights (Para 33 , 34 , 35)
10. monitoring project initiated for systemic reform (Para 36 , 37)
11. national coordination for project implementation (Para 38 , 39 , 40)
12. resource allocation for disability projects (Para 41 , 42 , 43 , 44)
13. directives on reservation for persons with disabilities (Para 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54)
14. conclusion and future hearings scheduled (Para 55 , 56 , 57)

JUDGMENT :

IA NO(S). 130117 OF 2018 IN CIVIL APPEAL NO(S). 11938 OF 2016

A. Introduction

B. Background

I. Writ Petition

II. Special Leave Petit

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