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ITEM NO.29 COURT NO.1 SECTION X

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s). 1022/1989

ALL INDIA JUDGES ASSOCIATION & ORS. Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)

(ONLY I.A. NOS.40695, 72900 AND 73015 OF 2021, I.A. NO.50269/2022,

I.A NOS. 88342/22, 91009/22, 88344/22, 103071/23, 103751/23,
137739/23, 248960/23, 248977/23 & 135045/2023 ARE LISTED)

(IA No. 50269/2022 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION IA No. 103071/2023

- APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS IA No. 72900/2021 – CLARIFICATION/
DIRECTION IA No. 88344/2022 – CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION IA
No.248977/2023 - GRANT OF INTERIM RELIEF IA No. 248960/2023 -
INTERVENTION APPLICATION IA No. 137739/2023 – INTERVENTION/
IMPLEADMENT IA No. 135045/2023 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA
No.40695/2021 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 103751/2023 –
INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 91009/2022 – INTERVENTION/
IMPLEADMENT IA No. 88342/2022 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA
No.73015/2021 - MODIFICATION OF COURT ORDER)

Date : 18-03-2024 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM : HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J.B. PARDIWALA
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ MISRA

For Petitioner(s) Mr. Akhilesh Kumar Pandey, AOR

Mr. Rakesh Dahiya, AOR

Mr. Aditya Dahiya, Adv.

Mr. A. Venayagam Balan, AOR

Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, AOR
Mr. Pravir Kumar Jain, AOR
Mrs. Amita Gupta, AOR
Signature Not Verified

For Respondent(s)
Digitally signed by
Ms. A. Subhashini, AOR
Ms. G. Indira, AOR
Ashwani Kumar
Date: 2024.03.22
15:32:12 IST
Reason:
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Mr. Anandh Kannan N., AOR

Mr. Gopal Jha, AOR

Mr. Shreyash Bhardwaj, Adv.
Mr. Umesh Kumar Yadav, Adv.
Mr. Navneet Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Karan Bharihoke, AOR

Mr. M. A. Chinnasamy, AOR

Mr. C Raghavendren, Adv.
Mr. S Senthil Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Sarubh Gupta, Adv.
Mr. P Raja Ram, Adv.
Mrs. C Rubavathi, Adv.
Mr. Davendra Pratap Singh, Adv.

Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR

Mr. Ajay Kumar, AOR
Mr. Satish Kumar, AOR
Mr. T. V. Ratnam, AOR

Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR

Mr. Aakash Nandolia, Adv.
Ms. Sagun Srivastava, Adv.
Ms. Kriti Gupta, Adv.

Mr. Apoorv Kurup, AOR

Ms. Nidhi Mittal, Adv.
Ms. Gauri Goburdhun, Adv.
Mr. Akhil Hasija, Adv.
Mr. Gurjas Singh Narula, Adv.
Ms. Aanchal, Adv.

Mr. B. D. Sharma, AOR

Mr. R. N. Keswani, AOR
Mrs. Revathy Raghavan, AOR
Mr. Rajiv Mehta, AOR
Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR
Mr. Ajit Pudussery, AOR
Mr. Raj Kumar Mehta, AOR
Mr. Jitendra Mohan Sharma, AOR

Mr. P. I. Jose, AOR

Mr. James P. Thomas, Adv.
Mr. Remish Lakra, Adv.
Mr. Hira Lal, Adv.
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Mr. T. Mahipal, AOR

Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR
Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR

Mr. Haresh Raichura, AOR

Mrs. Saroj Raichura, Adv.
Mr. Kalp Raichura, Adv.

Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, AOR

M/S. Parekh & Co., AOR
Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR
Mr. P. Parmeswaran, AOR
Ms. S. Janani, AOR
Mr. Anil Shrivastav, AOR
Mr. Kanhaiya Priyadarshi, AOR
Mr. Arun K. Sinha, AOR
Mr. P. K. Jain, AOR
Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR
Mr. Prashant Kumar, AOR
Mr. Rajesh Srivastava, AOR
Mr. Parijat Sinha, AOR
Mr. K. R. Sasiprabhu, AOR
Mr. Radha Shyam Jena, AOR

Dr. Sushil Balwada, AOR

Mr. Nandlal Kumar Mishra, Adv.
Mr. Srilok Nath Rath, Adv.
Ms. Reena Rao, Adv.

Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, AOR

M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR
Mrs. Anjani Aiyagari, AOR
M/S. Corporate Law Group, AOR
Mr. Sunil Fernandes, AOR
M/S. Gagrat And Co, AOR
Mr. Anil Nag, AOR
Mr. Kishan Datta, AOR

Mr. Romy Chacko, AOR

Mr. Sachin Singh Dalal, Adv.
Mr. Robin V. S., Adv.

Ms. A. Sumathi, AOR

Mr. M. Veerappa, AOR

Mr. Pravir Choudhary, AOR

Mr. Reepak Kansal, Adv.
Mr. Surender Tyagi, Adv.
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Mr. Prince Arora, Adv.

Mrs. Sneha Rani, Adv.
Mrs. Annwesha Deb, Adv.
Mr. Pankaj Kumar Sharma, Adv.

Ms. N. Annapoorani, AOR

Mr. V. K. Sidharthan, AOR
Mr. Manish K. Bishnoi, AOR
Mr. K. Ram Kumar, AOR

Mr. Mahesh Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Riju Ghosh, Adv.
Mr. Akshay Kumar Sharma, Adv.
Ms. Devika Khanna, Adv.
Mrs. V. D. Khanna, AOR

Mr. Mukesh K. Giri, AOR

Mr. Sanjay Jain, AOR
Mr. T. V. George, AOR
Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR

Mr. P.n. Ravindran, Sr. Adv.

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

Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, AOR

Mr. Ratan Kumar Choudhuri, AOR
Mr. Alok Kumar, AOR
Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR
Mr. T. L. Garg, AOR
Dr. J. P. Dhanda, AOR

Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR

Mr. Manendra Pal Gupta, Adv.

Mr. T. Harish Kumar, AOR

Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR
Mr. S. R. Setia, AOR
Mr. Krishnanand Pandeya, AOR
Mr. Kamal Mohan Gupta, AOR
Mr. Sanjay Sharawat, AOR

Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G.

Mr. Wasim Quadri, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Adv.
Mr. Nalin Kohli, Adv.
Mr. B K Satija, Adv.
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Mr. T A Khan, Adv.

Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv.
Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR

Mr. G. Prakash, AOR

Mr. Sunil Kumar Jain, AOR

Ms. Rashika Swarup, Adv.

Mrs. D. Bharathi Reddy, AOR

Mr. Nishant Sharma, Adv.
Ms. Adviteeya, Adv.

Ms. Meera Mathur, AOR

Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR

Mr. Raju Sonkar, Adv.

Mr. Gopal Balwant Sathe, AOR

Mr. Surya Kant, AOR

Mr. Nishant Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, AOR

Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR

Mr. Praveen Swarup, Adv.
Mr. O.p. Harsh Singh Munday, Adv.
Mr. Devesh Maurya, Adv.
Mr. Ved Parkash, Adv.
Mr. Lokendra Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Manoj Kumar Rajput, Adv.
Ms. Aditi Singh, Adv.

Mr. Abhisth Kumar, AOR

Mrs. Bina Gupta, AOR
Mr. R. Sathish, AOR

Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, AOR

Mr. Shantwanu Singh, Adv.
Ms. Pragya Singh, Adv.
Mr. Akshay Singh, Adv.
Mr. Sunny Singh, Adv.
Mr. Rahul Dubey, Adv.

Ms. Kumud Lata Das, AOR

Mr. P. V. Dinesh, AOR

Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR

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Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv.

Ms. Anupam Ngangom, Adv.
Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv.
Mr. R.rajaselvan, Adv.

Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR

Mr. Manendra Pal Gupta, Adv.

Mrs. D. Bharathi Reddy, AOR

Mr. Nishant Sharma, Adv.
Ms. Adviteeya, Adv.

Mr. Maibam Nabaghanashyam Singh, AOR

Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR

Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv.
Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv.
Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv.
Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv.
Ms. Preet S. Phanse, Adv.
Mr. Adarsh Dubey, Adv.

Mr. Anandh Kannan N., AOR

Mr. T. V. Ratnam, AOR

Mr. Siddharth Sangal, AOR

Ms. Richa Mishra, Adv.
Mr. Chirag Sharma, Adv.
Ms. Harshita Agrawal, Adv.
Ms. Ishita Singh, Adv.

Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR

Mr. Gurminder Singh, Ag, Sr. Adv.

Ms. Nupur Kumar, AOR
Ms. Niharika Tanwar, Adv.

Mr. Vinod Sharma, AOR

Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR

Ms. Abhivyakti Banerjee, Adv.
Mr. Gajendra Singh Negi, Adv.
Ms. Sakshi Garg, Adv.

Ms. Kavita Jha, AOR

Ms. Kavita Jha, Adv.
Mr. Rajeev Kumar Jha, Adv.
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Mr. Aditeya Bali, Adv.

Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Amicus Curiae

Mr. Ankit Yadav, AOR
Ms. Pracheta Kar, Adv.
Mr. Aditya Sidhra, Adv.
Mr. Nadeem Afroz, Adv.
Ms. Prakriti Rastogi, Adv.

Mr. Gautam Narayan, AOR

Ms. Asmita Singh, Adv.
Mr. Harshit Goel, Adv.
Mr. Sujay Jain, Adv.
Mr. K.v. Vibu Prasad, Adv.

Mr. Ardhendumauli Kumar Prasad, AOR

Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR

Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv.
Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.
Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv.
Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv.

Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR

Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv.
Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv.
Mr. Abraham Mathew, Adv.

Mr. Bijo Mathew Joy , AOR

Mr. Atul Kumar, AOR

Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR

Mr. Kabir Shankar Bose, Adv.
Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv.
Mr. Sumit Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR

Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv.
Mrs. Shashi Pathak, Adv.

Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR

Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR

Mr. Sravan Kumar Karanam, AOR

Ms. Shireesh Tyagi, Adv.
Ms. Tayade Pranali Govardhan, Adv.
Mr. Shaik Sohail Akthar, Adv.
Mr. Rudroji Rakesh Kumar, Adv.
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Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, AOR

Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, Sr. Adv.

Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR

Ms. Taruna Ardhendumauli Prasad, AOR

Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR

Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G.

Mr. Wasim Qadri, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR
Mr. T A Khan, Adv.
Mr. Nalin Kohli, Adv.
Mr. B K Satija, Adv.
Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Adv.
Mr. Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Adv.
Mr. Vatsal Joshi, Adv.
Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv.
Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv.
Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv.
Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv.

Mr. Saurabh Mishra, A.A.G.

Ms. Ankita Choudhary, A.A.G.
Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR

M/S. Plr Chambers And Co., AOR

Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR

Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv.
Ms. Vani Vyas, Adv.
Mr. Amit, Adv.
Mr. Ravi Chandra Prakash, Adv.
Mr. Abhishek Tripathi, Adv.

Ms. Sujata Kurdukar, AOR

Mr. Vivek Sharma, AOR
Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR

Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, AOR

Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, Adv.
Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv.
Mrs. Rajshri Dubey, Adv.
Mr. Amit P Shahi, Adv.
Mr. Gaurav Yadav, Adv.
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Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Anirban Tripathi, Adv.
Mr. Manish Dhingra, Adv.
Mr. Gagandeep Singh Sachdeva, Adv.

Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, AOR

Ms. Savita Devi, Adv.

Mr. Shashank Singh, AOR
Ms. Preeti, Adv.
Mr. Binod Kumar Thakur, Adv.
Mr. Mahendra Vikram Singh, Adv.
Mr. Priya Kakran, Adv.
Mr. Vikas Kumar Verma, Adv.

Ms. Enakshi Mukhopadhyay Siddhanta, AOR

Mr. Sovon Siddhanta, Adv.
Mr. K. G. Kannan, Adv.
Mr. Vedhagiri Chalka. A, Adv.

Mr. P. S. Sudheer, AOR

Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR
Mr. Malak Manish Bhatt, AOR

Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, AOR

Mr. Prashant Shukla, Adv.
Mr. Suyash Srivastava, Adv.
Mr. Abhishek Kr Tiwari, Adv.
Mr. Giridhar Upadhayay, Adv.
Ms. Karuna Hasiza, Adv.

Mr. Santosh Krishnan, AOR

Mr. Girish Chowdhary, Adv.
Ms. Sonam Anand, Adv.
Mr. Shaik Mohammed Haneef, Adv.
Ms. Deepshikha Sansanwal, Adv.

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, AOR

Mr. Prabhat Kumar Rai, Adv.
Mr. Sunil Kumar Tomar, Adv.
Ms. Shivi Bhatnagar, Adv.

Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR

Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR

Mr. Aravindh S., AOR

Ms. Ekta Muyal, Adv.
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Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR

Mr. Anand Kumar Dubey, Adv.
Mr. Maneesh Pathak, Adv.
Mr. Devvrat Singh, Adv.

Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR

Mr. Dhananjay Kataria, Adv.

Mr. D. K. Devesh, AOR

Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR

Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, Sr. A.A.G.

Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR
Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv.
Mr. Saushriya Havelia A, Adv.
Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv.
Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv.
Mr. C Kranthi Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Naman Dwivedi, Adv.
Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv.
Mr. Aman Prasad, Adv.

Mr. Adarsh Upadhyay, AOR

Mr. Mahesh Thakur, AOR

Mr. Smarhar Singh, AOR

Ms. Shweta Kumari, Adv.
Mr. Jai Krishna Singh, Adv.
Mr. Manoj Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Vikas Chopra, Adv.
Mr. Md. Aasim, Adv.

Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR

Ms. Preetika Dwivedi, AOR

Mr. Abhisek Mohanty, Adv.

Mr. Akbar Ali, Adv.

Mr. Santosh Kumar, Adv.
Ms. Jay Jaimini Pandey, Adv.
Ms. Sadiya Shakeel, Adv.
Mr. Satish Pandey, AOR
Dr. Nafis A Siddiqui, Adv.
Mr. Manmohan Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Harendra Kumar Sharma, Adv.
Mrs. Lalita Gupta, Adv.
Mr. Kafeel Ahmad, Adv.
Mr. Raj Ranjay Singh, Adv.
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Mr. Prabhoo Dayal Tiwari, Adv.

Mr. Abdul Qadir, Adv.
Mrs. Gulfeshan Javed, Adv.
Mr. Manish Kumar Tiwari, Adv.

Mr. Gagan Gupta, AOR

Mr. Ahantham Henry, Adv.

Mr. Ahantham Rohen Singh, Adv.
Mr. Mohan Singh, Adv.
Mr. Kumar Mihir, AOR

Mr. K M Natraj, A.S.G.

Mr. Wasim S Qadri, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR
Mr. T A Khan, Adv.
Mr. B K Satija, Adv.
Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Adv.
Mr. Rajeeva Ranjan Rajesh, Adv.
Mr. Pratyush Srivastava, Adv.

Mr. Braj Kishore Mishra, AOR

Ms. Radhika Gautam, AOR

Mr. Sandeep Sudhakar Deshmukh, AOR

Mr. Nishant Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Akshay Subhash Jagtap, Adv.

Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR

Ms. Shaswati Parhi, Adv.

Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR
Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv.
Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv.
Ms. Kshitij Singh, Adv.

Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, Sr. A.A.G.

Mr. Kumar Anurag Singh, Adv.
Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR
Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv.

Mr. B.H. Marlapalle, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Partiv K Goswami, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Dilip Annasaheb Taur, AOR
Mr. Amol V Deshmukh, Adv.
Mr. Avinish Kr Saurabh, Adv.
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Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, AOR

Ms. Aswathi M.k., AOR

Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR

Mr. Shreyas Awasthi, Adv.
Mr. Himanshu Chakravarty, Adv.
Ms. Anvita Dwivedi, Adv.

Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR

Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR

Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., AOR

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following

O R D E R

List the Writ Petition 10 April 2024.

(GULSHAN KUMAR ARORA) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR)

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