Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu, and others Etc. vs S. Raja and others Etc.

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2026 Supreme(SC) 440

SANJAY KUMAR, K. VINOD CHANDRAN
Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu, and others Etc. – Appellant
Versus
S. Raja and others Etc. – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Ms. Shalini Kaul, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Mr. Mahesh Thakur, AOR Mr. Ravinder Tangri, Adv. Mr. Narveer Yadav, Adv. Mr. Siddhartha Sati, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kumari, Adv. Dr. Anthony Raju, Adv. Mr. P. Wilson, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Mr. Veshal Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr. Apoorv Malhotra, Adv. Mr. Lokesh Krishna, Adv. Mr. Aditya Ojha, Adv. Mr. Goutham Bhaskar, Adv. Mr. Aravind A, Adv. Mr. Saran Raghunandan, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Mr. Anjani Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. Mahesh Thakur, AOR Mr. Ravinder Tangri, Adv. Mr. Narveer Yadav, Adv. Mr. Siddhartha Sati, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kumari, Adv. Dr. Anthony Raju, Adv. Ms. Shalini Kaul, AOR Mr. Vaidyanathan, Adv. Mr. P.r.kovilan Poongkuntran, Adv. Mr. Subbu Samy, Adv. Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR Mr. D.kumanan, AOR Mr. Nagarkatti Kartik Uday, AOR Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR Mr. A. Baskar, Adv. Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv. Ms. Madhulika, Adv. Mr. Radeesh Kumar Mt, Adv. Mr. Amulya Dev Mishra, Adv. Mr. R. Nedumaran, Sr. Adv. Mr. Soumik Ghosal, AOR Mr. Arijit Maitra, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Singh, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Chaturvedi, Adv. M/S. UNUC Legal LLP, AOR Mr. Mayilsamy K, Adv. Mr. A Siva Raman, Adv. Mr. Arun Pandiyan S, Adv. Mr. P. Soma Sundaram, AOR Ms. Pragya Gupta, Adv. Ms. T. Archana, AOR Mr. C. Paramasivam, Adv. Ms. Adviteeya, Adv. Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, AOR Mr. Dhawal Mohan, AOR Mr. Gaurav Sharma, Sr. Adv. Mr. Prateek Bhatia Bhatia, Adv. Mr. R. Vishnu Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ashwin Kumar A, Adv. Mr. R. Ilam Paridi, AOR Mr. Sidhant Verma, Adv. Mr. Aman Kumar, Adv. Mr. Saurav Beniwal, Adv. Ms. Sejal Nanda, Adv. Ms. Shikha Tandon, Adv. Mr. Vikash Kumar Jha, Adv. Mr. Zaid Drabu, Adv. Ms. Sejal Sethi, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Gupta, Adv. M/s. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, AOR Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Tushar Bhushan, AOR Mr. Amartya Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Yojit Mehra, Adv. Ms. Swantika Kumar Rajwanshi, Adv. Mr. Pinaki Mishra, Sr. Adv. Ms. Ruby Singh Ahuja, Adv. Mr. Pravin Bahadur, Adv. Ms. Kritika Sachdeva, Adv. Mr. Jappanpreet Hora, Adv. Mr. Pallav Mongia, AOR Mr. Vaidyanathan, Adv. Mr. P.r.kovilan Poongkuntran, Adv. Mr. Subbu Samy, Adv. Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR Mr. G Umapathy, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aditya Singh-1, AOR Ms. Priyanka Singh, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Thakur, AOR Mr. Ravinder Tangri, Adv. Mr. Narveer Yadav, Adv. Mr. Siddhartha Sati, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kumari, Adv. Dr. Anthony Raju, Adv.

JUDGMENT

SANJAY KUMAR, J

1. In Special Leave Petition (C) Nos. 24430-24431 of 2019, officials of the Government of Tamil Nadu assailed the common order dated 25.09.2019 passed by a division bench of the Madras High Court in W.P. Nos. 11156 of 2018 and 24500 of 2019. Their limited grievance centred around the fact that the division bench had vacated the interim order of status quo which was passed in and remained subsisting during the pendency of W.P. No. 11156 of 2018, while passing the common order.

2. Special Leave Petition (Civil) No. 26314 of 2019 was filed by Casagrand Builder Private Limited, aggrieved by the common order dated 25.09.2019 insofar as it pertained to its writ petition, viz., W.P. No. 24500 of 2019. Special Leave Petition (C) (Diary) No. 2594 of 2021 was filed by one C.E. Satyanarayana Reddy assailing the common order dated 25.09.2019 in relation to both the writ petitions.

3. By order dated 21.10.2019, while issuing notice in SLP (C) Nos. 24430-24431 of 2019, this Court directed status quo existing as on that date to be maintained by the parties. On 13.11.2019, this Court issued notice in SLP (Civil) No. 26314 of 2019 and tagged it with SLP (C) Nos. 24430-24431 of

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2026 Supreme(SC) 440

SANJAY KUMAR, K. VINOD CHANDRANSecretary, Government of Tamil Nadu, and others Etc. – AppellantVersusS. Raja and others Etc. – Respondent

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SANJAY KUMAR, K. VINOD CHANDRAN
Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu, and others Etc. – Appellant
Versus
S. Raja and others Etc. – Respondent