ITEM NO.9 COURT NO.4 SECTION PIL-W S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Writ Petition (Civil) No.13381/1984 M.C. MEHTA Petitioner(s)

VERSUS UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s) [TO BE TAKEN UP AT 12.00 NOON] .......................... IN RE: TAJ TRAPEZIUM ZONE ...............(1) IA NOS. 171142/2019 AND 74770, 74771/2024 (APPLNS. FOR DIRECTIONS, PERMISSION TO FILE REJOINDER AND EXEMPTION FOR O.T. ON B/O AGRA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION) (2) IA NO. 176773/2024 (APPLN. FOR INTERVENTION ON B/O UTTAR PRADESH JAL NIGAM) WITH IA NO. 60618 OF 2025 (APPLN. FOR DIRECTION ON BEHALF OF U.P. JAL NIGAM) (3) IA NOS. 104091, 104097/2018 AND 112177/2019 (APPLNS. FOR INTERVENTION, DIRECTIONS AND PERMISSION TO FILE ADDL. DOCUMENTS ON BEHALF OF AGRA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION) (4) IA NO. 168401/2021 (APPLN. FOR CLARIFICAION OF THE ORDER DT. 08.05.2015 ON BEHALF OF STATE OF U.P.) (5) CEC REPORT NO. 17 OF 2024 AND CEC REPORT NO. 34 OF 2024 IN CEC REPORT NO. 17 (6) CEC REPORT NO. 3 OF 2025 “ONLY” IN W.P. (C) NO. 13381/1984 ARE LISTED. “ONLY” NAMES OF THE FOLLOWING ADVOCATES MAY BE TREATED TO HAVE BEEN SHOWN IN THE LIST. PETITIONER-IN-PERSON MR. A.D.N. RAO, SR. ADVOCATE (A.C.) MR. AMRISH KUMAR, MR. M.K. MARORIA, MR. G.S. MAKKER, MR. VIJAY PANJWANI, MR. ANKIT GOEL, KAMLENDRA MISHRA, ADVOCATES (1) MR. E. C. AGRAWALA, MR. N. VISAKAMURTHY, MR.

PUSHKAR SHARMA]

Date : 01-05-2025 This petition was called on for hearing today.

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ABHAY S. OKA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE UJJAL BHUYAN Mr. A.D.N. Rao, Sr. Adv. (Amicus Curiae) Ms. Liz Mathew, Sr. Adv. (Amicus Curiae)

Mr. Siddhartha Chowdhury, AOR Mr. Rahul Mishra, Adv.

Signature Not Verified Ms. Aakashi Lodha, AOR KAVITA PAHUJA Ms. Mallika Agrawal, Adv.

Date: 2025.05.06 Reason:

For the parties: Mrs. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G.

Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Ms. Shivika Mehra, Adv.

Ms. Aastha Singh, Adv.

Mrs. Rajeshwari Shankar, Adv.

Mr. Sarthak Karol, Adv.

Mr. Jagdish Chandra Solanki, Adv.

Mr. Atishi Dipankar, AOR Mr. Ankur Prakash, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Ms. Garima Prashad, Sr. A.A.G.

Mr. Sudeep Kumar, AOR Ms. Manisha, Adv.

Mr. Badri Prasad Singh, AOR Ms. Jasmine Sahni, Adv.

Mr. Lakshmi Raman Singh, AOR Mr. Ajit Sharma, AOR Mr. Kanchan Kumar, Adv.

M/S. Lawyer S Knit & Co, AOR Mrs. Rachana Joshi Issar, AOR Mr. Kishan Chand Jain, Adv.

Mr. Ashwini Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Adv.

Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Ms. Nandani Gupta, Adv. Mr. Krishna Kumar, Adv.

Dr. Mrs. Vipin Gupta, AOR Mr. Prashant Kumar, AOR Mr. Rajiv Tyagi, AOR Mr. Ajay K. Agrawal, AOR Mr. Shiv Prakash Pandey, AOR Mr. Sudhir Kulshreshtha, AOR Mr. P. K. Manohar, AOR Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR Mr. Daleep Dhyani, Adv.

Mr. Anupam Misra, Adv.

Mr. Suraj Singh, Adv.

Mr. P. Parmeswaran, AOR Mr. P. Narasimhan, AOR M/S. Manoj Swarup And Co., AOR Dr. Sumant Bharadwaj, Adv. Mr. Vedant Bharadwaj, Adv.

Ms. Mridula Ray Bharadwaj, AOR Mrs. Pooja Gupta, Adv.

Mr. D.M.sharma, Adv.

Mr. Anshu Singh, Adv.

M/S. Meharia & Company, AOR Mr. Ankit Goel, AOR Mr. Anurag Kishore, AOR Mr. Rachit Mittal, AOR Mr. Nishit Agrawal, AOR Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR Mr. Shishir Deshpande, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Arvind Gupta, AOR Mr. Shantanu Bansal, AOR Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Mr. Keshav Singh, Adv.

Mr. Bp Naidu, Adv.

Mr. Rajeev Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. Pankaj Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Yatinder Choudhary, Adv.

Ms. Deveshi Chand, Adv.

Mrs. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G.

Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Shivika Mehra, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Karol, Adv. Mr. T.S. Sabarish, Adv.

Mrs. Ruchi Kohli, Adv.

Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv.

Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR Mr. Adarsh Tripathi, AOR Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mr. Siddhartha Chowdhury, AOR Mr. Adnrao, Sr. Adv.

Ms. Liz Mathew, Sr. Adv.

Ms. Akashi Lodha, Adv.

Mr. Saurabh Mishra, AOR Mr. Shrimay Mishra, Adv.

Mr. Nirbhaya Shankar Tiwari, Adv.

Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, AOR Ms. Chanda Trikha, Adv.

Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, Adv. Mrs. Rajshri Dubey, Adv.

Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv.

Mr. H.b. Dubey, Adv.

Mr. Amit P. Shahi, Adv.

Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Rahul Sethi, Ad