STATE BAR COUNCIL OF MADHYA PRADESH vs UNION OF INDIA

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2021 Supreme(Online)(SC) 1553

, CJ, DR. D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, J, MR. L. NAGESWARA RAO, J
STATE BAR COUNCIL OF MADHYA PRADESH – Appellant
Versus
UNION OF INDIA – Respondent

Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Mr. Mahesh Thakur, Mr. Kaushik Mishra, Mr. Ajay Kanojiya, Ms. Vipasha Singh, Mr. Nidhesh Gupta, Mr. Siddharth R. Gupta, Mr. Mrigank Prabhakar, Ms. Sakshi Banga, Ms. Vriti Gujral
For the Respondents: Mr. K.K. Venugopal, Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Mr. Saurabh Mishra, Ms. Vanshja Shukla, Ms. Priyanka Das, Mr. Chinmayee Chandra, Mr. Ankur Talwar, Mr. Zoheb Hussain, Mr. Siddhanth Kohli, Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Ms. Suhasini Sen, Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Mr. Kush Chaturvedi, Ms. Priyashree Sharma PH, Ms. Rushali Agarwal, Mr. Syed Faraz Alam, Mr. Kartik Seth, Mr. Siddharth Seth, Ms. Shriya Gilhotra, Ms. Garima Saxena

ORDER

CONMT.PET.(C) No. 708/2021 in W.P.(C) No. 502/2021:-

Heard Mr. Mahesh Thakur, learned Advocate-on-Record appearing for the petitioners and Mr. K.K. Venugopal, learned Attorney General for India appearing for the alleged contemnors/respondents at considerable length.

Issue notice, returnable after four weeks.

The personal presence of the alleged contemnors is dispensed with for the time being.

As prayed for by the learned Attorney General for India, the name of Respondent No.1 – Mr. Rajeev Gauba, Cabinet Secretary, is deleted from the array of parties.

Let the cause title be amended accordingly.

We are informed by the learned Attorney General that 37 vacancies were advertised in the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal. The Search-cum-Selection Committee of the Supreme Court recommended 28 names, out of which 16 persons are being considered for appointment as Members – Judicial and 6 persons as Members-Technical. The learned Attorney General assures us that the appointments would be made by the end of this month.

So far as the remaining recommended names are concerned, the learned Attorney General submits that the Government has not yet cleared the names due to certain inputs received from I

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2021 Supreme(Online)(SC) 1553

, CJ, DR. D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, J, MR. L. NAGESWARA RAO, JSTATE BAR COUNCIL OF MADHYA PRADESH – AppellantVersusUNION OF INDIA – Respondent

, CJ, DR. D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, J, MR. L. NAGESWARA RAO, J
STATE BAR COUNCIL OF MADHYA PRADESH – Appellant
Versus
UNION OF INDIA – Respondent