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2025 Supreme(Online)(SC) 9934

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
B.R. Gavai, Augustine George Masih, K. Vinod Chandran, JJ
All India Judges Association – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent
Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No. 1022/1989 | W.P.(C) No. 301/2024

Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Siddharth Bhatnagar, Aditya Sidhra, Ankit Yadav, S.R. Singh, Siddharth R. Gupta
For the Respondents: Arjun Garg, Kunal Chatterjee, Preetika Dwivedi

Upon the conclusion of arguments in a long-standing writ matter, the Court reserved judgment and directed the Registry to ensure the exchange of digital records between parties before the next scheduled hearing.

Headnote:(A) Writ Petition - Practice and Procedure - Hearing concluded and Judgment reserved - Matter directed to be listed after four weeks with other pending applications - Registry directed to supply digital copies of records to respective counsel.

Facts of the case:
The current proceedings relate to interlocutory applications and an associated writ petition concerning long-standing administrative and service-related issues involving the judiciary, originally filed by an association of judges in 1989.

Findings of Court:
The Court heard arguments from the appointed amicus curiae and counsel for the petitioners and respondents and has reserved judgment on the pending interlocutory applications.

Issues: The issues concern the resolution of various pending interlocutory applications and the management of associated writ petitions.

Ratio Decidendi: The Court, having concluded arguments, determined that further consideration is required and directed the matter to be listed after a four-week interval, while ensuring parties are provided with necessary digital records.

Result: Matter listed for further hearing after four weeks.

Table of Content
1. conclusion of arguments and reservation of judgment for further administrative listing. (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5)

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following

O R D E R

I.A. NOS. 135045/2023, 187237/2024, 187240/2024 and W.P.(C) No. 301 of 2024

1. Heard Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, learned Senior Counsel (Amicus Curiae), assisted by Mr. Aditya Sidhra and Mr. Ankit Yadav, learned counsel, Mr. S.R. Singh, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner in W.P.(C) No. 301/2024, Mr. Siddharth R. Gupta, learned counsel appearing for the applicant in IA No. 187237 of 2024 and Mr. Arjun Garg, Mr. Kunal Chatterjee, Ms. Preetika Dwivedi, learned counsel appearing for the respondent(s).

2. Arguments concluded.

3. Judgment is reserved.

4. List these applications/matters (IA Nos. 348 of 2016, 26463 of 2020, 114540 of 2022, 198911 of 2024, 105590 of 2023, 31898 of 2020, 35631 of 2021, 120909 of 2022, 114545 of 2022, 69128 of 2017, 193277 of 2019, 118657 of 2024, 10770 of 2020, 105592 of 2023, 31922 of 2020, 68142 of 2021, 128749 of 2017, 334 of 2014, 84153 of 2020, 248969 of 2023, 31915 of 2020, 93391 of 2023, 17450 of 2024, 336 of 2021, 114542 of 2022, 69125 of 2017, 10762 of 2020, 193273 of 2019, 338 of 2021, 166667 of 2024, 107659 of 2023, SLP(C) No. 12663 of 2022, W.P.(C) No. 580 of 2022 and SLP(C) No. 17757 of 2022) alongwith W.P.(C) No. 1022 of 1989 after four weeks.

5. The registry is directed to provide the soft/digital copies of these applications/matters to the learned counsel for the parties.

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2025 Supreme(Online)(SC) 9934

SUPREME COURT OF INDIAB.R. Gavai, Augustine George Masih, K. Vinod Chandran, JJAll India Judges Association – AppellantVersusUnion of India – RespondentWrit Petition(s)(Civil) No. 1022/1989 | W.P.(C) No. 301/2024

Upon the conclusion of arguments in a long-standing writ matter, the Court reserved judgment and directed the Registry to ensure the exchange of digital records between parties before the next scheduled hearing.

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
B.R. Gavai, Augustine George Masih, K. Vinod Chandran, JJ
All India Judges Association – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent
Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No. 1022/1989 | W.P.(C) No. 301/2024