2023 Supreme(Online)(SC) 21011
MR. JUSTICE SANJIV KHANNA, MR. JUSTICE S.V.N. BHATTI, JJ
ASHWINI KUMAR UPADHYAY – Appellant
Versus
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. – Respondent
Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Mr. Ashwani Kumar Dubey, Mr. Chandra Shekhar, Ms. Tanya Srivastava, Mr. Vishal Sinha, Mr. Rishabh Shukla, Ms. Farhat Jahan Rehmani, Mr. Faizan Khan, Mr. Danish Saifi, Mr. Nasim Anwar, Mr. Rashid N Azam, Mr. Mohd Jawaid H. Khan, Mr. Padhmanabha Raja K R, Mr. Satish Solanki, Mr. Ritesh Kumar, Mr. Shafik Ahmed, Mr. Anju Sharma, Mr. V. Elanchezhiyan, Mr. Vishnu Kant, Mr. Pavan Narang, Mr. Himanshu Sethi, Ms. Aishwarya Chhabra, Mr. C. George Thomas, Mr. Mrigank Prabhakar, Mr. Adeel Ahmed, Mr. Raja Chatterjee, Mr. Abdur Razzaque Bhuyan, Mr. Piyush Sachdev, Ms. Anupama Gupta, Ms. Riya Dutta, Ms. Tiya Dutta, Ms. Sana Parveen, Ms. Lilly Biswas, Ms. Sumita Hazarika, Mr. Shyam Divan, Mr. Senthil Jagadeesan, Mr. Vinayak Bhandari, Mr. Sajal Jain, Ms. Sonakshi Malhan, Mr. Nizam Pasha, Ms. Rashmi Singh, Ms. Dharitry Phookan, Mr. Hari Shankar Jain, Mr. Vishnu Shankar Jain, Mr. Parth Yadav, Ms. Mani Munjal, Ms. Marbiang Khongwir, Ms. Preeti Singh, Mr. Pulkit Agarwal, Mr. Siddharth Aggarwal, Ms. Tara Narula, Ms. Sowjhanya Shankaran, Ms. Sylona Mohapatra, Mr. Harsh Yadav, Ms. Maitreya Subramanium, Mr. Chaitanya Sundriyal, Ms. Mantika Vohra, Mr. M.R. Shamshad, Mr. Arijit Sarkar, Ms. Nabeela Jamil, Mr. Huzefa Ahmadi, Mr. Talha Abdul Rahman, Ms. Shahrukh Alam, Ms. Warisha Farasat, Ms. Hrishika Jain, Ms. Natasha Maheshwari, Ms. Mreganka Kukreja, Ms. Harshit Anand, Mr. Adnan Yousuf, Mr. M. Shaz Khan
For the Respondents: Mr. Tushar Mehta, Mr. K.M. Nataraj, Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Mr. Rajat Nair, Mr. Mayank Pandey, Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, Mr. Varun Chugh, Mr. Siddharth Dharamadhikari, Ms. Saumya Tandon, M/s. Venkat Palwai Law Associates, Mr. Amrish Kumar, Mr. Anshuman Ashok, Mr. Abhishek Atrey, Mr. Jatinder Kumar Sethi, Dr. Abhishek Atrey, Mr. Sri Harsha Peechara, Ms. Pallavi, Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, Mrs. Nilofar Khan, Mr. Milind Kumar, Ms. Devyani Bhatt, Ms. Nisha Bhambhani, Mr. Rajat Arora, Ms. Mariya Shahab, Mr. Anand Shankar, Mr. Dhruv Wadhwa, Mrs. Radhika Chaturvedi, Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Mr. Anil Kumar, Mr. Sunil Dalal
The Union of India has filed a status report on 20.11.2023,
giving the list of 28 States and Union Territories, which had
appointed Nodal Officers in compliance of the order dated
17.07.2018 passed by this Court in Tehseen S. Poonawalla vs. Union
of India & Ors.1.
During the course of hearing, learned counsel appearing for
the State of West Bengal has stated that the Nodal Officer has been
appointed.
1
(2018) 9 SCC 501
Court notice will be issued to the standing/nominated counsel
for the States of Gujarat, Kerala, Nagaland and Tamil Nadu to state
whether they have appointed Nodal Officers in compliance of the
aforesaid order. Affidavit in this regard will be filed by the
respective States within four weeks from today. Details and
particulars of the Nodal Officers shall be stated.
As there are large number of writ petitions/special leave
petitions/contempt petitions/applications pending before this
Court, we deem it appropriate to appoint Mr. Vatsal Joshi, Advocate
in addition to the two earlier appointed Advocates-on-Record,
namely, Mr. Anas Tanwar and Mr. Mrigank Prabhakar, to act as Nodal
counsel. They shall prepare a chart indicating the name of t
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