The Supreme Court of India is currently hearing a bunch of petitions challenging the validity of Sections 499 and 500 of IPC among others.
The Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi will been tracking the case and is collecting various documents relating to it.
NOTE: There are 25 petitions which have been tagged together- the latest list of petitions can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BycAZd9M5_7NbWhubWo5eU92OTA/view?usp=sharing.
We are in the process of finding out the details of the lawyers and other documents regarding the same.
The details and other information regarding the cases is available below. (The table is not exhaustive as we are still collecting information)
If you have any information or copy of petitions or submissions please mail them to sarvjeet.singh@nludelhi.ac.in
Name of Case | Number | Lawyers Appearing for the petitioner | Amicus | Copy of the petition | Copy of the written submission |
Subramanian Swamy v. UOI, Ministry of Law & Justice & ors. | W.P. (Crl.) No. 184/2014 | Mr. Subramanian Swamy (petitioner in person)
Mr. G.S. Mani (Senior Advocate) Mr. A. Lakshminarayanan Mr. M. M. Kashyap |
Mr. T.R. Andharujina (Senior Advocate)
Mr. K. Parasaran (Senior Advocate) |
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Arvind Kerjiwal v. UOI, Ministry of Law & Justice & ors. | W.P. (Crl.) No. 56/2015 | Dr. Rajeev Dhavan (Senior Advocate)
Ms. Vrinda Bhandari Mr. Chirag M. Shroff Ms. Swati Vaibhav |
Available here | ||
Arvind Kerjiwal v. UOI & ors. | W.P. (Crl.) No. 62/2015 | Mr. Arvind P. Datar (Senior Advocate)
Mr. Guru Krishna Kumar (Senior Advocate) Mr. Trideep Pais Mr. Gautam |
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Rahul Gandhi v. UOI & ors. | W.P. (Crl.) No. 67/2015 | Mr. P.P. Rao (Senior Advocate)
Mr. Harin P. Raval (Senior Advocate) Mr. R.S. Cheema (Senior Advocate) Ms. Mahalakshmi Pavani (Senior Advocate) Mr. K.C. Mittal Mr. G. Balaji Ms. Tarannum Cheema Mr. Nipun Saxena Mr. Santosh Krishnan |
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Foundation for Media Professionals v. UOI | W.P. (Crl.) No. 106/2015 | Mr. Anup Bhambhani (Senior Advocate)
Mr.Dushyant Arora Ms. Mudrika Bansal Mr. Apar Gupta |
Available here |