2026 Supreme(Online)(SC) 219
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
MR. SANJAY KAROL, MR. SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA, JJ
JITENDRA KUMAR SHARMA & ORS. – Appellant
Versus
THE STATE OF JHARKHAND & ORS. – Respondent
Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No. 1359/2023 | SLP(C) No. 3950/2023 | SLP(C) No. 3964/2023 | SLP(C) No. 16380/2023 | SLP(C) No. 16379/2023 | SLP(C) No. 16946/2023
Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Mr. Ratnakar Dash, Sr. Adv., Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv., Mr. F. I. Choudhury, AOR, Md. Noor Alam, Adv., Mr. David Choudhury, Adv., Mr. Anilendra Pandey, AOR, Mr. Ashutosh Gupta, Adv., Ms. Archna Jain, Adv., Mr. Shoeb Alam, Sr. Adv., Mr. Vatsalya Vigya, AOR, Dr. Rajiv Nanda, Sr. Adv., Mr. Kanchan Kumar Jha, Adv., Mr. Paramhans Sahani, Adv.
For the Respondents: Mr. Mangaljit Mukherjee, Adv., Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi, Adv., Ms. Madhusmita Bora, AOR, Mr. Dipankar Singh, Adv., Mr. Aditya Kumar, Adv., Ms. Pavithra V., Adv., Mr. Vaibhav Chechi, Adv., Mr. Anil Kumar Jha, AOR, Ms. Rohini Prasad, AOR, Mr. Anil K. Jha, AOR, Mr. Parijat Kishore, AOR, Mr. Vinay Navare, Sr. Adv., Mr. Amit Pawan, AOR, Mr. Hassan Zubair Waris, Adv., Ms. Aastha Shrestha, Adv., Ms. Shivangi Singh Rawat, Adv., Mr. Suchit Singh Rawat, Adv., Mr. Ram Naresh Yadav, AOR, Mr. Brajesh Pandey, Adv., Mr. Ashok Kumar Panigrahi, Adv., Mr. Jitendera Kumar Sharma, Adv., Mr. Sarvesh Kumar Yadav, Adv., Mr. Farooq Raza, Adv.
The court allowed the state to withdraw an affidavit to file a revised one and scheduled subsequent proceedings.
Headnote:The court analyzed various applications related to the special leave petitions filed for appeals arising from the Jharkhand High Court's decision. The petitioners, Jitendra Kumar Sharma & Ors., challenged the prior ruling and raised multiple interim applications. The court allowed counsel for the state to withdraw an affidavit with permission to file a better one within a designated timeframe. The court scheduled the next hearing for future consideration.
ORDER
1. Learned counsel for the State seeks permission to withdraw the affidavit dated 03.02.2026 filed on behalf of the State with liberty to file a fresh affidavit containing better particulars within a period of one week from today.
2. List on 19.02.2026.
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