ITEM NO.3 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)

[TO BE TAKEN UP AT 2:00 P.M.]

Date : 24-02-2026 This petition was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KAROL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH For Petitioner(s) :

Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General (not present)

Mr. S.v. Raju, A.S.G.

Mr. S Dwarakanath, A.S.G. (not present)

Mr. Rajat Vaishnaw, Adv.

Mr. Mudit Bansal, Adv.

Mr. S. Vijay Adithya, Adv.

Mr. Abhyudey Kabra, Adv.

Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR For Respondent(s) :

Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv. (amicus curiae Ms. Sana Hashmi, AOR Mr. Sheezan Hashmi, Adv.

Mr. Mihir Joshi, Adv.

Mr. Sarthak Jain, Adv.

Mr. Subham Raj Anand, Adv.

Mr. Adesh Choudhury, Adv.

Mr. Shrirang B. Varma, Adv.

Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv.

Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Signa ture No t Ve rifi ed Digita lly s ign ed b y Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, AOR NAVEEN D Date: 2026.02.25 Reason:

Mr. Sarthak Gupta, Adv.

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

Mr. Ansh Rajauria, Adv.

Mr. Mukul Kumar, AOR Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Suryaprakash V.raju, A.S.G.

Mr. S.Dwarakanath, A.S.G.

Ms. Nisha Bagchi, Adv.

Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv.

Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Adv. Ms. Munisha Ananad, Adv.

Mr. Annam Venkatesh, Adv.

Mr. Rajbahadur Yadav, Aor, Adv.

Mr. Arun Kumar Yadav, Adv.

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. Dipesh Sinha, Adv.

Ms. Pallavi Barua, Adv.

Ms. Aparna Singh, Adv.

Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Mr. Aryan Srivastava, Adv.

Mr. Krishna Rastogi, Adv.

Mr. Rahul Kumar, 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. Varij Nayan Mishra, Adv.

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

Mr. Manish Nair, Adv.

Mr. Abhay Kumar, AOR Mr. Shagun Ruhil, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Karan Chopra, Adv. Mr. Firoz Gandhi, Adv.

Mr. P. I. Jose, AOR Ms. P S Chandralekha, Adv.

Mr. Avnish Pandey, AOR Mr. Niranjan Sahu, AOR Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AOR Ms. Sabarni Som, Adv.

Mr. Aman Dev Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Keshav Mittal, Adv.

Mr. Gaj Singh, Adv.

Mr. Vikramaditya Chauhan, Adv.

Mr. Pushkar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ahantham Henry, Adv.

Mr. Ahantham Rohen Singh, Adv.

Mr. Mohan Singh, Adv.

Mr. Aniket Rajput, Adv.

Ms. Khiosnam Nirmala Devi, Adv.

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

Mr. Kumar Mihir, AOR Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Mr. Dhruv Yadav, Adv.

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

Mr. Kartik Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Vaibhav Srivastava, A.A.G.

Ms. Sugandha Anand, AOR Mr. Bhakivardhan Singh, AOR Mr. Narendra Kumar Pandey, Adv.

Mr. Sandeep Singh Somsaria, Adv.

Mr. Harshad V. Hameed, AOR Mr. Eliza Bar, Adv.

Mr. Desha Singh, AOR Ms. Nupur Kumar, AOR Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, AOR Mr. Kartikey, Adv.

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

Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Ms. Neha Singh, Adv.

Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, AOR Mr. Mayur Goyal, Adv.

Mr. Sarthak Srivastava, Adv.

Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv.

Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv.

Upon hearing the counsel the Court made the following

O R D E R

1. We are now informed that all the States/Union Territories and the High Courts have complied with our previous orders.

2. The presence of the Officers, who are present pursuant to our previous order, is dispensed with.

3. List on 27.02.2026.

4. Despite our repeated directions, we have been informed