ITEM NO.51 COURT NO.11 SECTION II-A S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No(s). 14185/2025 [Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 05-05-2025 in CRBA No. 4139/2024 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay]

UNION OF INDIA Petitioner(s)

VERSUS CHIDIEBERE KINGSLEY NAWCHARA & ORS. Respondent(s)

Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Advocate and Ms. Sana Hashmi, Advocate have been appointed as Amicus Curiae in the instant matter IA No. 66299/2026 - EXEMPTION FROM PERSONAL APPEARANCE Date : 10-03-2026 This matter was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KAROL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv.(A.C.)

Ms. Sana Hashmi, AOR (A.C.)

Mr. Sheezn Hashmi, Adv.

Mr. Mihir Joshi, Adv.

Mr. Sarthak Jain, Adv. Mr. Akshat Kumar, Adv.

For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Surya Prakash V. Raju, ASG Mr. S. Dwarakanath, ASG Ms. Nisha Bagchi, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Annam Venkatesh, Adv.

Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv.

Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Adv.

Ms. Munisha Anand, Adv.

Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR For Respondent(s) :Mr. Shrirang B. Varma, Adv.

Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv.

Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, AOR Signa ture No t Ve rifi ed Mr. Sanchit Singh, Adv. Digita lly s ign ed b y Mr. Sarthak Gupta, Adv.

RAJNI MUKHI Date: 2026.03.11 Reason:

Mr. Prakash Naik, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Rahul Chitnis, Adv.

Mr. Hersh Desai, Adv.

Ms. Shwetal Shepal, Adv.

Mr. Aditya Khanna, Adv.

Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, AOR Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR Mrs. Shashi Pathak, Adv.

Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv.

Mr. Robin Kumar, Adv.

Ms. Shweta Jayshankar Dwivedi, Adv.

Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Krishna Rastogi, Adv.

Mr. Aryan Srivastava, Adv.

Ms. Pallavi Langar, AOR Mr. Vishnu Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Kumar Anurag Singh, Adv.

Mr. Sujeet Kumar Chaubey, Adv.

Mr. Dev Aaryan, Adv.

Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv.

Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv.

Mr. Varij Nayan Mishra, Adv.

Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Ms. Samyuktha H Nair, Adv.

Mr. Abhay Kumar, AOR Mr. Shagun Ruhil, Adv.

Mr. Shreenivash, Adv.

Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Karan Chopra, Adv. Mr. Firoz Gandhi, Adv.

Mr. P. I. Jose, AOR Mr. Avnish Pandey, AOR Mr. Niranjan Sahu, AOR Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, AOR Mr. Kartikey, Adv.

Ms. Kashish Jain, Adv.

Mr. Aman Dev Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Keshav Mittal, Adv.

Mr. Gaj Singh, Adv.

Mr. Vikramaditya Chauhan, Adv.

Mr. Pushkar Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Suryaprakash V Raju, A.S.G.

Mr. S Dwarakanath, A.S.G.

Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv.

Ms. Nisha Bagchi, Adv.

Ms. Munisha Anand, Adv.

Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Adv.

Mr. Annam Venkatesh, Adv.

Dr. Arun Kumar Yadav, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Ahanthem Henry, Adv.

Mr. Ahanthem Rohen Singh, Adv.

Mr. Mohan Singh, Adv.

Mr. Aniket Rajput, Adv.

Ms. Khoisnam Nirmala Devi, Adv.

Mr. Yeshu Mehta, Adv. Mr. Tanay Hegde, Adv.

Mr. Kumar Mihir, AOR Mr. Harshad V. Hameed, AOR Mr. Dileep Poolakkot, Adv.

Mrs. Ashly Harshad, Adv.

Mr. Mahabir Singh, Adv.

Dr. Arunender Thakur, Adv.

Mr. Anshul Saharan, Adv.

Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv.

Mr. Dhruv Yadav, Adv.

Mr. Avneesh Arputham, AOR Mr. Ankit Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Ankolekar Gurudatta, AOR Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv.

Mr. Utkarsh Anand, Adv.

Mr. Sandeep Sudhakar Deshmukh, AOR Mr. Nishant Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Ankur Savadikar, Adv.

Mr. Kartik Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Vaibhav Srivastava, Adv.

Ms. Sugandha Anand, AOR Ms. Preetika Dwivedi, AOR Mr. Abhisek Mohanty Adv, Adv.

Mr. Ansh Rajauria Junior, Adv.

Mr. Mukul Kumar, AOR Mr. Apoorv Shukla, AOR Ms. Prabhleen A. Shukla, Adv.

Mr. Anshul Narayan, Adv.

Mr. Prem Prakash, AOR Mr. Kunal Mimani, AOR Ms. Shraddha Chirania, Adv.

Mr. Akshay Luthra, Adv.

Mr. Himanshu Shekhar, AOR Mr. Parth Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Shubham Singh, Adv.

Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, AOR Mr. Sarthak Srivastava, Adv.

Mr. Mayur Goyal, Adv.

Ms. Disha Singh, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv.

Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv.

Ms. Rajkumari Divysana, Adv.

Ms. Swati Ghildiyal,AOR Ms. Neha Singh,