COUNSEL
Mr. Rakesh K. Khanna, Advocate, Mr. Rakesh Mishra, AOR, Mr. Ankit Mishra, Advocate, Mr. Ashok Kumar Sharma, AOR, Mr. Kshitij Mudgal, Advocate, Mr. Vikalp Mudgal, Advocate, Mr. Gaurav Bhatia, AAG, Mr. Saral Chaturvedi, Advocate, Mr. Anjani Kumar Mishra and Ms. Preetika Dwivedi, AOR, Mr. Siddartya Dave, Mr. R.K. singh, Mr. Tom Joseph, Mr. Anthony M., Mr. Kumar Gaurav and Mr. B.N. Dubey, Advocates, Mr. Sajith. P, AOR, Dr. A.M. Singhvi, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Sanjeeb Panigrahi, Mr. Sovan Mishra, Mr. Vipin Kumar, Mr. K.K. Srivastava, Mr. Vijay Pal, Mr. Nasir Hussain, Mr. Uday Prakash Yadav, Mr. B.P. Singh Dhakray and Mr. Shakti Singh Dhakray, Advocates, Dr. Kailash Chand and Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR, Dr. R.K. Dhawan, Mr. Bijendra Chahar, Mr. Ravindra Bana and Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Advocates, Mr. Arvind Srivastav, Mr. T.D. Bhaskar, Mr. Rajendra Chaudhary, Mr. Jayant Mehta, Mr. Prashant Shukla and Ms. Kamakshi Mehlwal, Advocates, Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, AOR, Mr. Debal Kumar Banerjee and Mr. M.L. Verma, Sr. Advocates, Mr. Anand Nandan and Mr. Akshat Srivastava,Advocates, Mr. Amit Pawan, AOR, Mr. Kanishka Prasad, Advocate, Mr. Rahul Gupta, AOR, Mr. C.S. Rajan, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Arvind Srivastava, Advocate, Mr. Anupam Mishra and Ms. S. Janani, AOR, Mr. Sunando Raha, Advocate, Mr. S.R. Singh, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Avnish Singh, Advocate, Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, AOR, Mr. Nivedita Nair, Mr. Nishit Agrawal and Mr. Yash Agarwal, Advocates, Mr. Vipin Kumar Jai, Mr. Narender Kumar Verma and Ms. Ranjeeta Rohtagi, AOR, Mr. P.N. Misra, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, Advocate, Mr. Aftab Ali Khan, AOR, Dr. B.K. Jauhari, Ms. Purnima Jauhari, Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, Mr. S.C. Sharma and Mr. K.N. Srivastav, Advocates, Mr. Deepak Anand, AOR, Ms. Kiran Suri, Advocate, Mrs. Kirti Renu Mishra, AOR, Mr. S.J. Amith and Ms. Apurva Upmanyu, Advocates, Mr. K.T.S. Tulsi, Mr. Shekhar Naphade and Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Advocates, Mr. Puru Shendra Kaurav, Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Ms. Suresh Kumari and Mr. Raj Kamal, Advocates, Mr. Rajesh Shrivastava, AOR, Mr. Raghvendra Pratap Singh, Advocate, Mr. Pradeep Kant, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Praveen Kumar Rai, Advocate, Mr. Hemal Kiritkumar Sheth and Mr. S.R. Setia, AOR, Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sr. Advocate, Mr. R.K. Singh, Mr. Kumar Gaurav, Mr. B.N. Dubey, Mr. Robin Khokhar, Mr. Sushil Kumar, Mr. Prakash Gautam and Mr. T.N. Tripathi, Advocates, Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR, Ms. Mahalakshmi pavani, Sr. Advocate, Mr. G. Balaji, AOR, Ms. Shiva Vijayakumar, Advocate, Mr. Dinesh Dwivedi, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Abhishek Kumar Singh, Mr. Abhisth Kumar, Mr. Krishnan Mishra, Mr. Manish Shankar, Mr. Manish Shankar, Mr. Y. Kant, Mr. Nishant Singh, Mr. Manish Shankar Srivastava, Mr. Yasharth Kant and Ms. Minakshi Vij, Advocates, Mr. Dinesh Dwivedi, Sr. Advocate, Mr. M.R. Shamshad, AOR, Mr. Rajat Singh, Mr. Aditya Samaddar and Mr. Pankaj Singh, Advocates, Mr. Jaideep Gupta and Mr. P.N. Misra, Sr. Advocates, Mr. Som Raj choudhury, Advocate, Mr. K. L. Janjani, AOR, Ms. Varsha Rana and Mr. Shivpati B. Pandey, Advocates, Mr. V.N. Raghupathy, AOR Dr. B.K. Jauhari, Ms. Purnima Jauhari, Mr. D.P. Singh Yadav and Mr. Prakash Kumar Singh, Advocates, Mr. Prakash Kumar Singh, AOR, Mr. J.K. Shukla and Mr. B.K. Rai, Advocates, Mr. Vivek Tankha, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Abhishek Srivastava, Advocate, Mr. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, AOR, Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, AOR Mr. P. Chidambaram, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Parag P. Tripathi, Mr. Manoj Prasad and Mr. Amit Sibbal, Sr. Advocates, Mr. Ajay Srivastava, Mr. Ravindra Tripathi, Mr. Ashish Mishra, Mr. Ajay Kumar Srivastava, Mr. Rakesh Thakur, Mr. Dinesh Kumar Tiwary and Mr. Chandan Kumar, Advocates, Mr. Mohan Lal Sharma, AOR, Mr. Subramonium Prasad, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Manish Khandelwar, Advocate, Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan, AOR, Mr. Wills Mathew, Mr. Mukesh Verma and Mr. Sudhanshu Tomar, Advocates, Mr. Rabin Majumder and Mr. K.N. Rai, AOR, Mr. Ajayinder Sangwan, Mr. Tarunesh kumar, Mr. Anirudh Kumar, Mr. Vijay Pratap Singh, Mr. Kunal Chopra, Mr. Rohan Sharma, Mr. Dham Singh, Mr. S.N. Sharma and Mr. V.K. Mishra, Advocates, Mr. Kundan Kumar Lal, AOR, Mr. Sunil Pandey, Mr. Gaurav Yadava, Mr. Vijendra Kasana, Mr. Vijay P. Yadav, Mr. Pradeep Kumar Yadav and Mr. Ashutosh Yadav, Advocates, Mr. Purvish Jitendra Malkan, AOR, Mr. Anilendra Pandey, Mr. Saurabh Tiwari, Mr. Karunakar Mahalik, Mr. Pramod Kumar Gupta, Mr. Abhay Anand Jena, Ms. Bina Gupta, Ms. Surbhi Kapoor, Mr. Prateek Bhatia, Mr. Dhawal Mohan, Ms. Amandeep Kaur, Ms. Vara Gaur and Mr. Gaurav Sharma, Advocates, Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Dhriyashil, Mr. Jyoti Mendiratta and Ms. Priya Hingorani, Advocates, Mr. Rakesh Uttamchandra Upadhyay, AOR, Mr. Vijay Pal, Mr. K.K. Srivastava, Mr. Avinash Kumar Jain and Mr. C.P. Singh, Advocates, Mr. Ram Swarup Sharma, AOR, Mr. Laxman Singh Rawat, Advocate, Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Ali Mushtaq Nawazish, Advocate, Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR, Mr. Ram Anugrah Singh, Mr. Vipin Kumar Sharma, Mr. Raghuvir Sharma and Mr. Dharmendra Sharma, Advocates, Dr. Rajeev Sharma, AOR, Mr. Pratap Shankar, Mr. Shwetank, Ms. A. Shivani and Mr. Neeraj Shekar, Advocates, Mr. G. Krishnkumar and Mr. Brijender Chahar, Sr. Advocates, Ms. Aarti Gupta, Advocate, for the Appellants; Mr. Ranjit Kumar, SG, Ms. Binu Tamta, Mr. M.K. Maroria, Mr. Rajiv Singh, Dr. B.K. Jauhari and Ms. Purnima Jauhari, Advocates, Mr. Prakash Kumar Singh and Mr. Satpal Singh, AOR, Mr. D.K. Chaubey, Advocate, Mr. Anup Jain, AOR, Mr. Shivam Tripathi and Mr. Himanshu Upadhyay, Advocates, Mr. Arvind Minocha, AOR, Mr. Krishnan Venugopal and Ms. V. Mohana, Sr. Advocates, Mr. Mehul M. Gupta, Advocate, Mr. R.P. Gupta and Mr. Anurag Kishore, AOR, Mr. Mordhwaj Singh, Mr. Pankaj Kumar Singh and Ms. Rinku Mishra, Advocates, Mr. Raj Singh Rana and Mr. Navin Prakash, AOR, Ms. Meetu Singh, Advocate, Mr. Prashant Chaudhary, AOR Mr. K.K. Shrivastava, Advocate, Mr. Shwet Kumar, Mr. Vipin Kumar, Mr. Dipesh Dwivedi and Mr. S.K. Divakar, Advocates, Mr. Nitin Kumar Thakur, Mr. Anoop Kr. Srivastav and Mr. Anuj Bhandari, AOR, Mr. Rahul Pachauri, Advocate, Mr. Dilip Raghuvanshi, Mr. Mithilesh Kumar Mishra, Mr. Sekhar Singh and Mr. Ashutosh Lal, Advocates, Mr. Shekhar Kumar, Mr. Satish Kumar, Mr. Anurag Pandey and Mr. Aftab Ali Khan, AOR, Mr. Vishnu Shankar Jain, Ms. Sudha Gupta and Ms. Aditi Mohan, Advocates, Mr. Ankur S. Kulkarni and Ms. Jyotika Kalra, AOR, Mr. Hemant Kumar Yadav, Mr. S. Rathore, Ms. Shreya Kumar, Ms. Manisha Tiwari, Mr. Dwarka Sawale, Mr. Jetendra Singh, Ms. Kalpana Sabharwal, Ms. Priyanka Singh, Mr. V.K. Kaushik, Mr. Prashant Shukla, Mr. Harioum Sharma, Mr. Manohar Pratap, Mr. Prabhoo Dayal Tiwari and Mr. Surya Kumar, Advocates, Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR Mr. Ghanshyam Singh, Mr. Shish Pal Laler and Mr. Sonit Sinhmar, Advocates, Mr. Devesh Kumar Tripathi, AOR Mr. Rohit Pandey, Mr. Dinesh Tiwari, Mr. Swami Nath and Ms. Manisha Tiwari, Advocates, Ms. S. Janani, AOR Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Mr. Rakesh Kumar Tiwary and Mr. Devendra Shukla, Advocates, Mr. Sanjay Kumar Dubey, AOR, Ms. Shuchi Singh, Advocate, for the Respondents; Mr. Gyan Prakash Srivastava and Mrs. Kirti Renu Mishra, AOR, Mr. Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, Advocate, Mr. Gunnam Venkateswara Rao and Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR, Mr. Vikash Singh, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Alok Gupta, Mr. Farooqui, Mr. Arvind Srivastava, Mr. Rajendra Chaudhary and Mr. Vikas Singh, Advocates, Mr. Alok Gupta, AOR, Ms. Priyanka Bhaskar, Mr. Thakur Das B., Mr. Anirudh P., Mr. Intikhab Hussain and Mr. R. Basanth, Advocates, Mr. Amit Pawan, AOR, Mr. Akshat Srivastava, Advocate, Mr. A. Sharan, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Vivek Singh and Mrs. K. Sarada Devi, AOR, Mr. Kausar Raza Faridi, Advocate, Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR, Mr. J.K. Gupta, Advocate, Mr. M.P. Jha and Mr. Rohit Singh, AOR, Dr. Rajeev Dhawan, Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Mr. R. Basant, Mr. Harin P. Raval and Mr. Anoop G. Chaudhary, Sr. Advocates, Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, Mr. Balraj Dewan, Mr. Susheel Tomar and Mr. Prassana Venkat, Advocates, Ms. Abha R. Sharma, Mr. Vishwa Pal Singh and Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR, Mr. Hari Om Yaduvanshi, Mr. Anil Kumar, and Mr. Karunish Shukla, Advocates, Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR, Mr. Abhimanyu Tiwari, Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma and Mr. Kalinder Mishra, Advocates, Mr. Shree Pal Singh, Mr. Anupam Mishra, Mr. P.N. Ramalingam and Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, AOR, Mr. Shivam Tripathi and Mr. Himanshu Upadhyay, Advocates, Mr. Vikrant Singh, AOR, Mr. D.P. Singh Yadav, Mr. S. Jain, Ms. Madhu Bala, Mr. Yugal Kishor Prasad and Mr. B.S. Rajesh Agrajit, Advocates, Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR, Ms. Shraddha Saran, Mr. Varun Thakur and Mr. Ajay Jain, Advocates, Mr. Jinendra Jain, AOR, Mr. Abhishek Jain, Mr. Shaswat Bhardwaj, Mr. Aastha Chopra, Mr. R.P. Kaushal, Mr. Birjesh Yadav and Mr. R.S. Garg, Advocates, Ms. Rachana Srivastava, AOR, Ms. Monika, Mr. Sukrit R. Kapoor, Mr. T.N. Saxena, Mr. H.C. Kharbanda, Mr. Vipin Kumar Saxena, Mr. Mukesh Verma, Mr. Pawan Kumar Shukla and Mr. Devesh Kumar Agnihotri, Advocates, Mr. Yash Pal Dhingra and Mr. Mohan Lal Sharma, AOR, Mr. Vinay Kumar Garg, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Amit Upreti, Mr. Dheeraj Kumar Dubey, Mr. Surya Nath Pandey, Mr. Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi, Mr. Pradeep Kumar Tiwari, Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi and Mr. Anupam Dwivedi, Advocates, Dr. Vinod Kumar Tewari, Mr. Rabin Majumder, Mr. Santosh Kumar Tripathi, Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, Mr. Ranbir Singh Yadav and Mr. Kundan Kumar Lal, AOR, Mr. Rajeev Kumar Dubey, Advocate, Mr. Kamlendra Mishra and Mr. R.D. Upadhyay, AOR, Mr. Girdhar G. Upadhyay, Ms. Vineeta G. Upadhyay, Mr. J.P. Tripathi and Ms. Asha Upadhyay, Advocates, Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Abdul Qadir and Mr. A. Kalam, Advocates, Ms. Kamakshi S. Mehlwal, AOR, Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, Advocate, Mr. Balraj Dewan, Mr. Deepak Anand and Mr. Arjun Krishnan, AOR, Mr. Ashish Tiwari, Advocate, Mr. Anil Kr. Jhan, AOR, Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, Advocate, Mr. Vishal Prasad, AOR, Ms. Revathy Raghavan, Mr. Satya Mitra Garg, Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra and Ms. Charu Mathur, AOR, Mr. Talha Rahman, Mr. Sudhansu Palo, Dr. Sumant Bharadwaj, Mr. Ajit Kumar Gupta, Mr. Manoj Kumar and Ms. Mridula Bhardwaj, Advocates, Mr. Devvrat, AOR Mr. Sujeet Kumar, Mr. Akhilesh Pandey, Ms. Reena Patel, Ms. Garima Shukla and Mr. Ajay Kumar Singh, Advocates, Mr. P.S. Dutta, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Dushyant Parashar, Mr. Yogesh Kumar Sharma, Mr. Kuldeep Yadav, Mr. Ayush Megi, Ms. Anita Bafna, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Dubey, Mr. Raju Mangal Kumar, Mr. K.V. Mohan, Mr. Aman Singh, Mr. Abhishek Sarkar, Mr. Partha Sil and Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Verma, Advocates, Dr. R.K. Dhawan, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Ravinder Bana, Advocate, Mr. Farrukh Rasheed, AOR Mr. Abdul Qadir, Mr. G. Javed and Mr. A. Kalam, Advocates, Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Mehul M. Gupta and Mr. R.P. Gupta, Advocates, Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, Mr. Anurag Dubey, Mr. Meenesh Dubey, Ms. Meenakshi P., Mr. Utkarsh Sharma, Mr. sunny Chowdhary, Mr. Rajat Sharma, Mr. Nandlal Kumar Mishra, Mr. Rakesh Tiwari, Mr. Kaushal Yadav, Mr. Pradeep Kumar, Mr. Ashwani Garg and Mr. Ratneswar Das, Advocates, Mr. Sanjeev Malhotra, AOR, Mr. K.B. Upadhyay, Mr. C.P. Pandey, Mr. Arun Kumar Singh, Mr. Sanjay Singh, Ms. Somitra Saran, Mr. Rajeev Singh, Mr. Mayank Pandey, Mr. Mukesh Arora, Mr. Girish Chandra, Dr. Sandeep Singh, Mr. Sanchit Garga, Mr. Pulkit Manuja, Mr. P.S. Sharma and Mr. Chatanya Siddharth, Advocates, Mr. Mukesh K. Sharma, AOR, Mr. Avnish Singh, Mr. Ashok Agrawal and Ms. Anita Batna, Advocates, Mr. Ajay Vikram Singh, AOR, Ms. Priyanka Singh, Mr. Pritam Bishwas, Mr. Prashant Singh and Ms. Neha Goel, Advocates, Ms. Arunima Dwivedi, AOR, Mr. Imran Khan, Advocate, Mr. Anil K. Chopra and Mr. Anjani Kumar Mishra, AOR, Mr. Shailendra Kumar Mishra, Mr. Shivram, Pandey, Mr. Pratap Singh, Mr. Dheeraj Garg, Ms. Arunima Dwivedi, Mr. Vipin Kumar and Mr. Vijay Pal, Advocates, Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR, Mr. Hara Prasad Sahu, Advocate, Mr. Kedar Nath Tripathy, Mr. K.S. Rana, Mr. Kundan Kumar Lal, Mr. K.V. Mohan and Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR, Mr. Umesh Dubey and Ms. Meghna Kalra, Advocates, Mr. Roopansh Purohit, AOR Mr. Kaushal Narayan Mishra, Mr. Amit Yadav and Mr. Nilakanta Nayak, Advocates, Mr. Shishir Deshpande and Mrs. Mona K. Rajvanshi, AOR, Mr. Anurag Kashyap, Advocate, Mrs. Revathy Raghavan, Mr. S.R. Setia, Mrs. Sudha Gupta, Mr. Vikrant Singh Bais and Ms. S. Ramamani, AOR, Mr. S. Wasim A. Qadri, Mr. Jubair Ahmad Khan, Mr. Zaid Ali, Mr. Tamim Qadri and Mr. Saurabh Chopra, Advocates, Ms. Udita Singh, Mr. Vishal Prasad, Mr. Satya Mitra Garg and Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR, for the Respondents in person