NIPUN SAXENA VS. UNION OF INDIA on 28 October 2026

ITEM NO.103 COURT NO.2 SECTION PIL-W 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). 565/2012 NIPUN SAXENA & ANR. Petitioner(s) VERSUS UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)

WITH SMW(Crl) No. 4/2019 (PIL-W) Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Amicus Curiae assisted by Ms. Supriya Juneja, learned counsel/Advocate-on-Record IA No. 89799/2022 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS IA No. 107372/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS IA No. 107373/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT IA No. 8079/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION IA No. 107370/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION IA No. 89797/2022 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 37881/2020 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT MA 1735/2025 (PIL-W) FOR ADMISSION IA No. 188089/2025 - APPEAL AGAINST REGISTRARS ORDER XV RULE 5

Date : 28-10-2026 This petition was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKRAM NATH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANDEEP MEHTA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE APARESH KUMAR SINGH By Courts Motion Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv.(Amicus Curiae) Ms. Supriya Juneja, AOR For Petitioner(s) : Petitioner-in-person For Respondent(s) :Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General (NP) Mr. K.M.Natraj, A.S.G. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria- 2324, AOR Mr. S.N.terdal (aor), Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv.

Digitally signed by NEETU KHAJURIA Date: 2026.10.28 17:19:36 IST

Reason:

Signature Not Verified

Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. Ms. Chitrangda Rastravara, Adv. Ms. Agrima Singh, Adv. Ms. Astha Singh, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Aman Mehta, Adv.

Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General (NP) Mr. Sudarshan Lamba- 3667, AOR Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Mr. Arkaj Kumar, Adv. Ms. Aastha Singh, Adv. Mr. Bhakti Vardhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar - Aor, Adv.

Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General (NP) Ms. Madhulika Upadhyay- 4185, AOR Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Mr. Arkaj Kumar, Adv. Ms. Astha Singh, Adv. Mr. Bhakti Vardhan Singh, Adv.

Mr. H.s. Phoolka, Sr. Adv. Ms. Rachna Tyagi, Adv. Ms. Surabhi Katyal, Adv. Ms. Shashi, Adv. Ms. Anjali Singariya, Adv. Ms. Sonali Jain- 3722, AOR

Mr. Vinay Kumar Garg, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ajay Kumar Singh- 2022, AOR Ms. Pranjil Shekhawat, Adv. Mr. Devashish Bharukha, Sr. Adv. Mr. Gautam Singh, adv. Mr. Akshat Aggrawal, Adv. Mr. J. Chandhoke, Adv. Mr. Soumya Sandilaya, Adv. Mr. Shirin Khajuria, Sr. Adv. Ms. Swati Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Anindita Mitra, AOR

Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta- 1522, AOR Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Ms. Anju Thomas, Adv. Mr. Krishnav Koukham Gogi, Adv.

Mr. Rahul Shyam Bhandari- 2281, AOR

Ms. Priyadarshni G, Adv. Ms. Sanskriti Sharma, Adv. Mr. Satyam Pathak, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Thakur, Adv.

Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra- 1320, AOR

Mr. Kartik Seth, Adv. Ms. Shilpa Saini, Adv. Mr. Pranjal Jaiswal, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Kumar, Adv. M/s Chambers Of Kartik Seth- 2839, AOR

Ms. Astha Singh- 3907, AOR Mr. Satya Mitra- 1852, AOR

Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar- 1593, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv.

Mr. Debojit Borkakati- 2102, AOR

Mr. Krishnanand Pandeya- 1116, AOR

Ms. Vishakha- 3831, AOR Mr. C. George Thomas- 2991, AOR

Mr. Sanchar Anand, Adv. Mr. Devendra Singh, AOR Dr. Ravinder Kumar Anand, Adv. Mr. Rajat Rathee, Adv. Mr. Aman Kumar Thakur, Adv. Mr. Aditya Kumar, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Bhardwaj, Adv.

Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G. Mr. Saurabh Rajpal, Adv. Ms. Arushi Rathore, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Jaswal- 2955, AOR

Mr. Ankur Sood- 2083, AOR Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha- 2396, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma- 1133, AOR

Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria- 2324, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. K.m.natraj, A.S.G. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. S.n.terdal (aor), Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. Ms. Chitrangda Rastravara, Adv. Ms. Agrima Singh, Adv. Ms. Astha Singh, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Aman Mehta, Adv.

Mr. Sandeep Singh Dhingra, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Kumar Mudgal, Adv. Mr. Sanjiv Kumar Jdain Adv. Mr. Gurusharan Kaur, Adv. Mr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Jatin Malik, Adv. Ms. Mukti Chowdhary- 1792, AOR

Mr. Uddyam Mukherjee- 2680, AOR Mr. Swapnil Pattanayak, Adv. Ms. Kratika Kushwaha, Adv. Ms. Meghna Nag, Adv.

Dr. J. P. Dhanda- 1119, AOR

Ms. Sindoora Vnl- 3122, AOR Ms. Alika Priya, Adv.

Ms. Shriya Gilhotra- 4209, AOR Mr. Narendra Kumar- 1580, AOR

Mr. Sravan Kumar Karanam- 3132, AOR Mr. Kumar Abhishek, Adv. Mr. P. Venkatraju, Adv. Ms. Lakshita Yadav, Adv.

Mr. Arkaj Kumar Ga, Adv. Mr. Harmeet Singh Ruprah- 2308, AOR Mr. Anil Hooda, Adv.

Ms. Vanshaja Shukla- 2173, AOR

Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dwivedi,Standing Counsel, Adv. Ms. Tulika Mukherjee- 2201, AOR

Mr. Subodh S. Patil- 1984, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav- 2771, AOR

Mr. Mohd. Irshad, A.A.G. Ms. Baani Khanna, AOR Mr. Robin Singh, Adv. Mr. Kapil Balwani, Adv. Ms. Komal Thakkar, Adv. Ms. Tejal Tapaswani Nagauri, Adv.

Mr. Hitendra Nath Rath- 2283, AOR Ms. Laxmi, Adv. Dr. Niranjan Moharana, Adv. Mr. Amitabh Panda, Adv.

Mr. Arjun Garg- 1807, AOR Ms. Arushi Kulshrestha, Adv. Mr. Saaransh Shukla, Adv. Ms. Muskan Bensla, Adv. Ms. Mrinmoyee Das, Adv.

Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker- 2357, AOR

Mr. Shashwat Parihar- 3933, AOR Mr. Shashank Singh, Adv. Ms. Ritambara, Adv. Mr. Ashish Mishra, Adv.

Ms. Aswathi M.k.- 2498, AOR

Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande- 3259, AOR Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Shrirang B. Varma, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Ms. Chitransha Singh Sikarwar, Adv. Mr. Venkata Raghuvamsy D.- 3264 , AOR Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna- 1870, AOR Mr. James P. Thomas, Adv. Mr. C. K. Sasi- 1323, AOR

Ms. Sana Hashmi- 2966, AOR Mr. Vinod Sharma- 2369, AOR

Mr. Akshat Kumar, AOR Ms. Anubha Dhulia, Adv.

Mr. Ajay K. Jain, Adv.

Mr. Sudipto Sircar- 3276 , AOR Ms. Astha Sharma- 2450, AOR Mr. Saurabh Trivedi- 1745, AOR Ms. Nupur Kumar- 3078, AOR Mr. Pradeep Misra- 510, AOR

Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR Ms. Yashmita Pandey, Adv.

Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi- 2648, AOR Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari- 2828, AOR

Mr. Prashant Shrikant Kenjale- 2993, AOR Mr. Hrishikesh Wanzalkar, Adv.

Ms. Disha Singh- 3175 , AOR Ms. Eliza Barr, Adv. Ms. Akansha, Adv. Ms. Anjali Saxena, Adv. Mr. Govind Sharma, Adv. Mr. Saanil Patnayak, Adv.

Mr. Vivek Narayan Sharma- 1867, AOR Mr. Akash Singh, Adv.

Mr. Rajiv Kumar Choudhry- 3138 , AOR

Mr. Vivek Sharma- 3260, AOR Dr. Vijay Kumar Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki- 2744, AOR Mr. Gopal Jha- 2306, AOR Mr. Kunal Mimani- 2753, AOR Ms. Kamakshi S. Mehlwal- 1263, AOR

Mr. Sahil Bhalaik- 2465, AOR Mr. Tushar Giri, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Anil Khanna, Adv. Mr. Ritik Arora, Adv. Mr. Shivam Mishra, Adv.

Mr. Gowtham Polanki, Adv. Mr. Utkarsh, Adv.

Mr. Rishad Ahmed Chowdhury- 2203, AOR Ms. Sohini Sanyal, Adv.

Mr. Sumeer Sodhi- 2596, AOR Mr. Manish Kumar- 2806, AOR Mrs. Anil Katiyar- 50, AOR Mr. V. N. Raghupathy- 1281, AOR Mr. Subodh S. Patil- 1984, AOR Mr. Anurag Kulharia- 4427, AOR Dr. Navya Jannu, Adv. Mr. Gyaaneshwar Joshi, Adv. Ms. Diksha Rai- 1974, AOR Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar- 2788, AOR Ms. G. Indira- 1856, AOR

Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv. Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Mukul Singh, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR

Mr. Anando Mukherjee- 2500, AOR Ms. Sunita Singh Saini, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Adv. Mr. Anupam Kumar, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Shrma, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Mr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey, Adv. Ms. Binu Tamta- 121, AOR

Mr. D.k Thakur, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Kumar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Tavleen Singh, Adv. Ms. Vallabhi Shukla, Adv. Mr. Rohit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Joginder Mann, Adv. Mr. Akash Sajan Sapelkar, Adv. Mr. Mayank Mann, Adv.

Mr. Bimlesh Kumar Singh- 1652, AOR Mr. Narendra Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Abhishek- 1785, AOR Mr. Pravartak Suhas Pathak- 3383, AOR Ms. Jaspreet Gogia- 1327, AOR Ms. Supriya Juneja- 2195, AOR M/S. Lawyer S Knit & Co- 1336, AOR

Mr. Tanmaya Agarwal, AOR Mrs. Aditi Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Muhammad Nomaan Khan, Adv. Ms. Astha Goel, Adv. Mr. Jayesh Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Pallav Mongia- 2469, AOR Ms. Kashish Lalwani, Adv. Ms. Ishita Nayak, Adv. Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR Ms. Shreya Kasera, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Pandey, Adv.

Ms. Asmita Singh, AOR Ms. Asmita Singh, Adv.

Mr. B. Karunakaran- 3845, AOR Ms. Jayasri, Adv.

Mr. Lakshmi Raman Singh- 314, AOR Mr. Aravindh S.- 2008, AOR

Mr. Akshay Amritanshu- 3121, AOR Mr. Akshat Aggrawal, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Utkarsh Rai, Adv. Mr. Atharve Tiwari, Adv.

Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR Mrs. Shashi Pathak, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Anamika Mishra, Adv.

Mr. Deepayan Mandal- 2485, AOR Mr. Mridul Bansal, Adv.

Mr. Naman Varma, Adv. Mr. Monu, Adv. Mr. Sreejan Shankar, Adv.

Mr. Neeraj Shekhar- 1635, AOR Mr. Rajesh Kumar Maurya, Adv. Mrs. Kshama Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Ashutosh, Adv. Mr. Ritwik Prasad, Adv. Ms. Minakshi Singh, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Kumar Agarwal, Adv.

Mr. Merusagar Samantaray- 1694, AOR Ms. Taruna Ardhendumauli Prasad- 2246, AOR

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following

O R D E R

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