ITEM NO.33 COURT NO.9 SECTION X S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s). 940/2017 BIKRAM CHATTERJI & ORS. Petitioner(s)

VERSUS UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s) Date : 30-04-2025 This petition was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE BELA M. TRIVEDI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA For Petitioner(s) :Mr. M.l.lahoty, Adv.

Mr. Himanshu Shekhar, AOR Mr. Raj Kamal, AOR For Respondent(s) :

Mr. R. Venkataramani, AG Mr. Vishnu Sharma, AOR Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR Ms. Rakhi Ray, AOR Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR M/S. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Aor, AOR Mr. Ravindra Kumar, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Binay Kumar Das, AOR Ms. Ruchira Goel, AOR Mr. Mahesh Jethmalani, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Soayib Qureshi, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Signature Not Verified Digitally signed by NISHA KHULBEY Date: 202 5.0 5.0 1 Mr. Aakarshan Aditya, AOR

10:19:57 IST Reason:

Mr. B. K. Satija, AOR Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR Mr. Umesh Kumar Khaitan, AOR Mr. Santosh Kumar - I, AOR M/S. Shakil Ahmad Syed, AOR Mr. Ashok Anand, AOR Gaurav, AOR Mr. Badri Prasad Singh, AOR Mr. Vishnu Sharma, AOR Mrs. Kirti Renu Mishra, AOR Mr. Pramod Dayal, AOR Mr. Ajit Kumar Sinha, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Niraj Gupta, AOR Ms. Amita Singh Kalkal, AOR Mr. Prateek K Chadha, AOR Mr. Sureshan P., AOR Mr. Abhigya Kushwah, AOR Mr. Aviral Kashyap, AOR Mr. Syed Mehdi Imam, AOR Mr. Anuj Bhandari, AOR Mr. Uddyam Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Awanish Sinha, AOR Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, AOR Mr. Anil Nag, AOR Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. Christopher Dsouza, AOR Mr. Brijesh Kumar Tamber, AOR Mr. Jasmeet Singh, AOR Mr. Rishi Matoliya, AOR Mr. Divyesh Pratap Singh, AOR Mr. Satish Kumar, AOR Mr. Sahil Chandra, AOR Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Gaurav Goel, AOR Mr. Shubham Bhalla, AOR Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. Aditya Jain-1, AOR Mr. Kedar Nath Tripathy, AOR Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR Mrs. Priya Puri, AOR Mr. Arpit Shukla, AOR Mr. Dheeraj Nair, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Mr. T. Mahipal, AOR Mr. S. K. Verma, AOR Ms. Bharti Tyagi, AOR Mr. Praveen Chaturvedi, AOR Mr. Tushar Singh, AOR Mr. Pai Amit, AOR Mr. Ashish Batra, AOR Mr. Dheeraj Nair, AOR Mr. Aviral Kashyap, AOR Mr. Aneesh Mittal, AOR Mr. Vipin Kumar Jai, AOR Mr. Shantwanu Singh, AOR Mr. Nirmal Kumar Ambastha, AOR Mrs. Tanuj Bagga Sharma, AOR Ms. Aruna Gupta, AOR Mr. Aslam Ahmed Jamal, AOR Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Mr. Brijesh Kumar Tamber, AOR Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, AOR M/S. Acm Legal, AOR Mr. Rajesh P., AOR Mr. Bhuwan Raj, AOR Mr. Devendra Singh, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Aman Gupta, AOR Ms. Anannya Ghosh, AOR Ms. Anubha Agrawal, AOR Mr. D. S. Chauhan, AOR M/S. Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mr. Anuj Kapoor, AOR Mr. Abhinav Agrawal, AOR Ms. Charu Sangwan, AOR Mr. Rohit Amit Sthalekar, AOR Mr. Ashwarya Sinha, AOR Mr. Rohit Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Mr. Abhinav Ramkrishna, AOR Ms. Divya Roy, AOR Ms. Mithu Jain, AOR Ms. Udita Singh, AOR Ms. Aanchal Tikmani, AOR Mr. Divyakant Lahoti, AOR Mr. Sumit Sinha, AOR Mr. Sanchit Garga, AOR Mr. M. T. George, AOR Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., AOR Mr. Rajat Mittal, AOR M/S. V. Maheshwari & Co., AOR Mr. Sumit Kumar, AOR Mr. Sriram P., AOR Ms. Rajkumari Banju, AOR Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra-i, AOR Mr. Sanchit Garga, AOR Mr. Karunakar Mahalik, AOR Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR Ms. Shilpa Liza George, AOR Ms. Sneha Kalita, AOR Mr. Rahul Joshi, AOR Dr. Vijendra Singh , AOR Mr. Aishwarya Pathak, AOR Ms. Prerna Mehta, AOR Ms. Charu Mathur, AOR Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR Ms. Richa Kapoor, AOR Mr. Chandra Prakash, AOR Mr. Vishal Gupta, AOR Mr. Alok Tripathi, AOR Mr. Ranjit Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Kailash Prashad Pandey, AOR Mr. Gopal Shankarnarayanan, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Kumar Mihir, AOR Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Ms. Kamakshi S. Mehlwal, AOR Mr. Siddhartha Dave, Sr. Adv.

Ms. T. Archana, AOR Ms. Mayuri Raghuvanshi, AOR Mr. Anas Tanwir, AOR Mr. Deepak Prakash, AOR Ms. Anagha S. Desai, AOR M/S. Pba Legal, AOR Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR Mr. Palas